Oskar Blues Old Chub

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

33 cl can. Dark reddish brown colour with a weak head. Aroma of malt, coffee and dark chocolate. Very sweet flavour with roastedness and notes of some oil-like, but ends up little watery but also with noteable alcohol.

(Canned, Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Dark brown colour with ruby notes, firm beige head. Malty, nose with dark fruit, cherries and chocolate. Malty taste with dark fruit, chocolate, coffee (with milk) and a well balanced, lovely finish with spicy notes of hops and hints of smoke. Medium to full body, perfect balance. Velvety, smooth and charming (well, that’s the first word I come to think of) mouthfeel. I normally get bad vibes from beer in cans, but this beer was actually really brilliant. A real beauty! And it comes out of a can. Brilliant stuff.

Can: Deep brown in color, amber hue and a tan head that fades. Very malty aroma with chocolate hints, roasted coffee and a hint of smokyness. Slightly syrupy mouth feel with almost no carbonation detectable. Roasty flavor with dark malts evident. Roasty caramel middle and a long peat-like dryish finish. Strong after-taste. Has lots of malt, but it lacks depth and is one-dimensional. Still drinkable, and stand-out, in terms of canned offerings.

The second canned beer from this great Colorado brewery, and as It sets in the glass a quite deep sanguineous color with ruby high lights, head is portly in size, creamy in texture and the color a toothsome light tan, as the head slowly evaporates a fine sheet of lace develops to seal off the glass, and as its consumed a fine set of Irish Rings is left behind to track your progress. Sweet malt nose, hints of toasted grain, fresh, crisp and quite pleasing to the olfactory and Ocular senses, start is sweet, nicely malted, top rich and pleasant in its feel to the palate. Finish is benignly acidic, the hops delightful in their spiciness, aftertaste quite dry, a fine representative to the style and one unfortunately we don’t see much of here in the west.

Major appearance dings for the can - first, it shouldn’t be in a can, second, the can is ugly. The beer itself looks great - deep, dark brown, nice clinging tan head with an interesting bubble cascade during the pour. Odd thing about the beer, is that there’s no explosive CO2 release when you pop the top. I almost thought I had a leaky bottle -- but, it’s got plenty of carbonation. Aroma is fantastic - milk chocolate raisins, peat and a bit crackery. Moderately sweet and biscuity, a bit porterish, smokey. Body makes a lunge at being thick, but it actually comes off just a tad over medium-bodied. Moderately coffee bitter. Cigarettes and coffee finish with bitter chocolate. Excellent brew, especially at a $7.49 pricepoint.

Can pours like coca cola, fizzly light brown head, spotty lacing, with light carbonation.   Peat, Irish Moss, roasted malts, light touch of coffee beans and a bit of earth on the nose.   Definitely seems to have character.   Malty up front, peaty, touch of roasted malts.   Respectable body, with a decent mouthfeel.   Lingering finish of peat, earth, and roasted malts.   Quite tasty!

Hazy deep mohogany color with a medium creamy light brown head. Sweet caramel malt aroma with some light smoke. Sweet caramel malt and molassas flavor with some roasted malt and a touch of smoke.

Can. Very dark brown, small brown tinted head. Aroma is really good: huge malt presence, lots of powdered chocolate in that sweetness, hints of roast, smoke, peat, almonds, and a really nice earth/bread character to it. Taste follows suit, really nice malt sweetness with more chocolate, nuttiness, and a wisp of smoke at the end. Alcohol comes through at the end in the form of a slight burn, but there is so much flavour here I hardly even notice. Those might be some hops in the finish or just more alcohol, I cannot tell. Creamy perfectly carbonated mouthfeel making it taste very fresh. A new standard for Scotch Ales for me - what a brewer.