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Oskar Blues Old Chub

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bottled
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9763.69/5.03.68/5.08%89.9Thistle
Commercial Description:
Old Chub is a Scottish style ale brewed with copious amounts of crystal and chocolate malts, and a dash of beechwood-smoked malts. While Dale's Pale Ale ("the best-tasting canned beer I've ever had," according to many brewers and beer experts) is a showcase of both hops and pale malts, Old Chub is a celebration of malts. The cola-colored beer features a dense, tawny head, a creamy mouthful and flavors of caramel, chocolate and lightly roasted malt. Complex and rich, it finishes with a whisper of smokiness that calls to mind a fine single malt scotch. Old Chub weighs in at 8 % alcohol by volume.
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 daknole (2940), Plantation, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/517/20
Jun 21, 2008  
Nice beer and from a can, I love it Pour a nice deep brown with a very small head. Aromas of delcicious malts and grains. Flavor is smooth and fairly complex. I like this.


 bb (2919), Martinez, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Sep 22, 2008  
Can. Blackish beer with red highlights and a nice tan head. Malty, caramel aroma. Malty, caramel, and light fruit flavor. Fuller bodied. Caramel, malt, and light earth lingers. Not bad.


 beerbuzzmontreal (2911), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Nov 18, 2007  
Seductive aroma of caramel, chocolate, smoked malt and a burnt feeling that reminds me of molasses. The pour reveals a murky dark brown color with a thick, diminishing tan head. The flavor focuses on sweetness and malt, there’s a caramel and chocolate combo with smoked malt and again that burnt feeling. This fine scotch ale has a medium body and oily texture while the carbonation is gentle. I like the fact that this beer is very sweet but doesn’t feel sticky, it’s one of my favorite scotch ales brewed in the USA.


 shrubber85 (2910), Wallhalben, Germany
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/105/516/20
Nov 10, 2005  
Can. Dark molasses malt and hops aroma. Opaque black-brown color with ample head. Strong creamy malt and molasses flavor with a much lighter hops flavor than I expected from the aroma. Nice full body with a slightly oily feel. Have to agree with other raters - one of the best canned beers I’ve ever had.


 BMan1113VR (2868), Los Angeles (and Dallas), Texas, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/515/20
May 31, 2008  
Pours with a small, creamy, light brown head that quickly disapates. Body is an ultra dark reddish-brown body. Aroma of peat, smoke, some sweet malts, and dark fruits. Pretty light tasting, finishes with some peat, smoke and malt. Hard water mouthfeel with low carbonation. Alcohol is well hidden.


 DougShoemaker (2856), Toronto, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Sep 3, 2007  
A sweet molasses like aroma, some malt, mohagony, pours a small toffee head, some lace. Taste is roasted malt, brown sugar. Light bodied, balanced,sweet, bitter. Pretty good.


 Dogbrick (2855), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Jul 2, 2008  
Sample at Pizza Port Solana Beach. Pours a mostly clear dark reddish-brown color with a medium thin and foamy beige head that dissipates slowly. Small patches of lacing. Aroma of malt and molasses, along with a touch of hops. Rich body with a sweet character of malt, caramel and molasses that is spiked with a decent amount of hops. The finish is roasted malt with a lingering sweetness left over. Pretty enjoyable all around.


 austinpowers (2828), New York, New York, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/102/518/20
Nov 13, 2005  
alcohol was pretty well hidden - and yet there was an odd malt flavor. Little hops. No complaints. Enjoyed at NYC’s BrewTopia fest.



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