Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale

Brewed by Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
Style: American Pale Ale
Lyons, Colorado USA

On tap at the brewpub, 4/13/06: Bright orange with an excellent sticky head. Nice little hoppy aroma. Yummy citric hoppiness wit a solidly sweet malt backdrop.

Can. Slight hazy amber/orange with a fantastic thick white head & good lacings. The aroma is of bitter hops & sweet malts. The mouhfeel is filling. Good hoppiness that lastes throughout. Fruity/flowery & piney with a light malty balance. Soft carbonation. Lasting end. Very nice can of beer!

Can. Nice head with good duration. Color is hazy amber. Aroma and taste are rich with hops. Good long finish.

Poured a light copper color with a sticky off white head and it left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of sweet caramel malts, and surprisingly no hops however. Taste was very nice with bitter citrus, light roast and also some sweet malt. The best canned beer I have ever drank on an airplane! Frontier Airlines.

Can. Golden/orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is citrus, hop, flowers. Flavour is citrus, hop, flowers, malt. Bitter finish. Nicy hoppy beer.

India Pale Ale #100. Many thanks to Skyview trucking this in for the Cellar’s tasting. Copper color with a thin head. Slight citrus hop aroma. The taste has an almost vegetal hop quality to it with a finish of dry caramel. Someone apparently said this was the country’s best canned beer? Uh, no. Not even the best in Oskar’s lineup.

Late 2005 or early 2006 six-pack Consumed over a number of days in late January. I done drinked it straight from the can, so I don’t know ’bout no ’pearance. No just kidding, it’s a clear marigold with loads of fairly dense, lasting (and lightly lacing) beige colored head, plenty of bubbles rising. Nose is rough and raw hop greeness. Juicy, very floral and citric at the same time, without any real fruitiness. Bits of grass clippings, touch of pine. Malt is caramelly sweet in the nose, but allows the hop aroma to dominate. Light sourness from munich-like grains. The flavor shows more of the melanoidins from the malt, and plenty of hop bitterness. Plant-like and green, it’s more floral than anything, with a very dry, unripened grapefruit flavor, orange rinds and light touches of pine sap. Malts almost seem to add to the dryness, especially on the end, as it comes off extremely bready. Fitting carbonation for a can, not over-the-top, but certainly present. Papery-bready mouthfeel, softened a touch by the caramel maltiness, but barely so. No alcohol apparency. After it warms, the breadiness, crystally/caramely malt simplicity and monotonous hop acidity become too heavy on the palate.

(12 Fl Oz can at Bishops Arms, Avenyn, Göteborg) Clear copper color, fluffy big lasting tan head. Soft but big fruity and citrus hoppy scent. Smooth big hoppy grape taste, grape aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel, huge bitterness.
8/4/8/4/16=4.0

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(Can at Haket, Göteborg)
Clear copepr color, white head. Sweet fruity scent. Bitter and sweet taste. Smooth mouthfeel, high bitterness.
8/4/7/4/15=3.8