Oskar Blues Old Chub

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

Clear dark brown medium beige head. Sweet aroma with notes of roasted malt, caramel and chocolate. Flavor likewise with a sweet end. Mild coffee notes.

Irish cream and coco nose. The flavor is lite in contrast to the aroma. Its good and simple.

Everytime I pop open one of these cans it is at once an act of defiance, an indulgence and a bold statement. Tasty too. The Old Chub pours an oak brown color, but gives no head save for a tepid brown halo around the rim of the glass. This doesn’t mean the beer is flat though. A robust, strong waft of malts comes rocketing out of the glass, along with the smells of sweet coffee, grape juice, chocolate malt balls and brown sugar. A rich medley to be sure. The flavor is more bitter and more savory too. Think of a bland kind of beef (chuck roast?) with a light chocolate malts accent and you’ll get a good idea of the semi-meaty semi-sweet flavor that makes this a sn easy to understand and easy to drink beer. The aftertaste is a whole separate side of the Old Chub, spreading around the mouth with a coffee stickiness and the slightest glint of raisin. Okay, so the flavor is a little plain, so maybe this is the littlest brother in the Oskar Blues family, but everyone needs their weakest link, and if this is as weak as OB gets, count me in for everything and anything they make.

Can from BevMo, La Mesa. Dark ruby/amber in color. Rich malty aroma. Very peaty with a hint of sweetness. Thick and malty up front. Some dark fruit. Malt dominates with some smokey qualities.

Pours dark brown/red with a thin sand-colored head. Fresh aroma mainly of malt sweetness: caramel, bread, dark fruit, sugar. I may have caught Cracker Jack on a whiff. Anyway, the flavor: sweet and sugary caramel followed by some roasted malt. The palate is a little syrupy, accentuating this beer’s singular drive to bang home sweet malts. It’s a decent beer, but Old Chub does not call to mind a fine single malt scotch. Maybe Glenfiddich on ice.

Oh beer, how I missed you. Pours black brown color with a medium to large sized light brown head that quickly turns to off white. Nose is rubber, soy sauce / teriyaki sauce with white rice, caramel, and dusty malt. Mouthfeel is on the thin side and I am left wishing for a more chewy / sticky coating to my palate. The taste is a bit basic as well. I am getting wood, caramel, a fleeting hint of dates, and a definitely some smoked malt. Very bitter and lasting finish that lasts at least 45 seconds.

12 oz can...deep brown-dark tan head...rich smoky sweet scents---a malty peaty scotch-like essence...smooth body..for a can, wow never would suspect it once it is in the glass...it has similar flavors to the aroma...its quite good...i enjoy a bit of peatiness to my brew...there is also a bit of chocolate...a damn good scotch ale, and especially a canned one---even a lacing that looks like drippy dots

Can. Heavy malt aromas of roasted, molasses, and mild coffee, moderate hops and yeast of resin and earth, with notes of raisin, toffee, and vanilla. Head is large, creamy, off-white, with fair lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is dark brown. Flavor is moderately sweet and lightly acidic to start and finishes moderately sweet and lightly bitter. Palate is medium, between watery and almost syrupy and has a lively carbonation. A deep maltiness and well rounded flavors makes this one of the best Scotch Ales I’ve tried.