Oskar Blues Gordon

Brewed by Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Lyons, Colorado USA

Rerate: same piney sweet aroma, same appearance, taste is nice hop front with a Malty imperial red backing. When I have a bad day and need alcohol with hops this is a nice four pack to turn to. Mouthfeel is better than the last batch, but still not as full as I would like.
Pours with a frothy, off-white head covereing a clear, dark amber body. Some lacing. Strong, room filling aroma. Lots of pine, spruce, brown sugar, grapefruit and butterscotch. Taste starts off with a big hop buildup, similar to a DIPA, and then falls to a sort of amber ale maltyness towards the finish. Some noticable alcohol warming produced from this can. My biggest complaint with this beer is the mouthfeel/palate. My can produced a beer that is watery thin, which does not suit the the sort of heavy malt and hops or even alcohol that this beer hits your tastebuds with. It falls quite short in this cartegory, but otherwise is a great beer.

Can courtesy of Taverner, pours a nice dark amber brown with a thin tan head. The nose is malty, hoppy and a bit of yeast. The flavor is similar, with some fung and earthiness in there as well. Gritty, earthy finish.

Looks great with lovely ruby/brown body and fantastic head. Peppery layered and subtley spicy in aroma. There are deep malts in there to smell but for some reason they never seemed to completely open up even after considerable time to warm. That said three still was plenty to smell. Nice body with a decent bittering of hops towards the back along with other more distant balancing forces. Not a bad brew by any means.

Can. Red-tinged dark amber. Light foamy head. Good lacing. Nice hop nose. Red IPA? Moderate hops with a bit of a sour malt finish.

Canned. This is great beer! Pours a dark amber, darker than most ipa/dipa. Small head that faded quick. Aroma of citrus fruits and flowers. It tastes more like a DIPA to me than a "strong ale". I’m very excited that this brewery now has some distribution in my area....I want to try their other stuff now! Very good beer.

Can. Copper pour with a thick off white head. Very nice floral aroma, characteristic of a highly dry hopped IPA. Great flavor, a nice balance between sweet malt and dry hops... citrusy and spicy. A very well put together beer.

The beer pours an amber red brown with a thick fluffy head that settles into a long lasting thin film that leaves long lacing the nose is a bitter hop with notes of caramel and rich malts. The taste is some what shocking, the can tells me that it is a very sticky beer but I found it more round with a dry hoppyness, not as big as big ipa’s but a nice rich balance of sweet malts and bitter hops. It has a medium long fish that last but does not linger.

12 oz. can. Haven’t had this beer in a while but it’s darn good. Nice balance of malt and bitterness. Good hop flavor as well though....hop flavor lacks in some imperials so this beer is great.