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Great Divide Hibernation Ale

Great Divide Hibernation Ale

Rated 3.816 by BeerPals
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Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company

Denver, CO, United States

Style:  Strong Ale

8.1% Alcohol by Volume

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Great Divide's award-winning Hibernation Ale is Colorado's original strong ale-it has been our winter seasonal each year since 1995. Since that time, Hibernation has become the most sought after winter beer in Colorado. Hibernation's massive flavors are so intense that it requires over three months of aging each year. Each summer, while our brewers are still spending their weekends in flip-flops and shorts, they prepare for July's Hibernation brewing schedule.

ID: 4397 Last updated 16 years ago Added to database 22 years ago

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Overall Rank496
Overall Percentile99.1
Style Rank21 of 799
Style Percentile97.4
Lowest Score2.9
Highest Score4.6
Average Score3.874
Weighted Score3.816
Standard Deviation0.398

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  • FISHINGFAST 685 reviews
    rated 3.9 9 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

    Pours out a dark brown color with a thin tan head. The aroma is of coffee and roasted malt. The mouthfeel is creamy and thick. The taste is a tad bitter not from hops but like old coffee. I can taste nuts and leather.

  • THOMASSOVA4 1037 reviews
    rated 4.0 10 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

    I had this beer at a hotel in Denver, CO. What a great beer - a winter warmer for sure. Lots of coffee and sweet malt to give a nice full flavor. I really enjoyed this.

  • RICHSBEER 1929 reviews
    rated 3.6 11 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Pours a dark amber brown color with a small frothy tannish head that fades down at a normal pace leaving behind some nice lacing. The aroma is a mix of deep caramelized malts with some dark fruits, molasses, residual sugars, and some booze. The taste starts off with lots of rich sweet caramelized malts with some raisin, fig, and other dark fruits. Through the middle, some molasses and other residual sugars come through with some light chocolate flavor. The finish is a mix of sweet caramelized malts with some dark fruit and booze. The mouthfeel is full bodied with moderate carbonation. Feels smooth and slightly thick with a warming and sweet finish.

  • MITCHFORGIE 683 reviews
    rated 4.2 12 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

    Bottled oct 6 2011, purchased from Beermongers Portland. How much is 12 oz, is that 500ml? I should look this up... Anyways, poured into my glass, free and courtesy of beermongers, cheers! Dark dark ruby, fairly clear, moderate head retention. Something smoky and peppery. Malts of dark carmel and really dark carmelized brown shugar. Medium to full bodied. Crisp hop finish, a bit biting, fairly bitter. Something faintly like brit biscuit style pale malts on steroids. Biscuits on steroids.... the right amount of oak for me. Its a biting bourbon lacking vanilla oak. Something like bitter underripe crabapple turns up during warming as well. It suggests a romano pairing on the bottle. I agree completely. Sweeter than I wanted near the end. Really warm alcohol which I dig but I understand is not to everyones tastes.

  • JLOZIER 671 reviews
    rated 4.4 12 years ago

    Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

    Another trade from Slowrunner77. Label says it was bottled 11-10. What an amazing beer! This is thicker than I was expecting, and the chocolate! Oh the chocolate! It is like a fine, European, ultra-dark chocolate woven in to the fabric of this bad boy. It flows so thickly on the tongue that it makes for a sipping beer; the stunningly gorgeous flavor, however, makes sipping quite difficult. pours a deep black, and well-carbonated. Rather dry finish. Lots of roasted warmth mingling like and awkward engineer at a gathering of young hipsters. My word, what a delicious beer. Not what I was expecting as an old ale at all. Many thanks, once again! Wishlist checkoff from 2-5-08

  • RAINMAN 892 reviews
    rated 4.0 13 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

    Pours dark red with a low tan head. Nice lacing. Nice nose. Smooth but with a nice ting in the mouth, malty, dark fruit, some hoppiness in the finish. Nice.

  • SLOWRUNNER77 5682 reviews
    rated 4.5 13 years ago

    Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

    misleading as a strong ale...old ale on the label, and a freakin awesome one at that. one of the tastiest most complex malt profiles ever. this is a new standard both for old ales and winter warmers. rich, robust and delicious...and my nose kept going back to the bottle and glass for another inhale. i've been teetering between a 4.4 and a 4.5, but for now, the higher score wins out. this will be a must every winter from here on out.

  • ANTE 2674 reviews
    rated 3.8 14 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    Dark reddish brown, firm white head. Nougat, toffee, spices and orange-peels in the compact aroma. malty flavour of raisins, figs, nougat, sweet oranges and anise. Warming malty aftertaste of nuts and raisins with a subtle hop note.

  • SIGMUND 6606 reviews
    rated 3.5 14 years ago

    Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

    355 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 8.7%. Beautiful clear and deep copper to mahogany coloured beer, big off-white to beige head. Strong malty aroma with distinct notes of caramel and bakery. The flavour has loads of malty sweetness and caramel, maybe too much caramel for my taste. Noticeable hoppy bitterness in the finish, also notes of burnt bread crumbs. Not entirely balanced in my book, but an interesting beer all the same.

  • JKBPILL 201 reviews
    rated 3.0 14 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

    The beer pours a dark brown with a tan head that shows some nice lacing. The aroma is malty and sweet. The taste is a mix of a strong malty beer but it had almost a to intense oaky aftertaste. I will admit I am not a huge fan of oaked beers and that is one of the reasons I had just the regular Hibernation and not the oaked version. Not a bad beer but not my type.

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