{"id":1227,"date":"2010-09-10T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:25:56","slug":"oskar-blues-old-chub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/oskar-blues-old-chub\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Oskar Blues Old Chub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oskar Blues says:<\/p>\n

“Old Chub is the beer equivalent of a lightly smoked single malt scotch, or your favorite dark chocolate. We call it Rocky Mountain Mutha\u2019s Milk. People who tell us defiantly, \u201cI don\u2019t drink dark beer,\u201d often fall deeply in love with Old Chub. We can\u2019t blame them.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Oskar Blues Old Chub
\nScottish Ale, 8% ABV
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

My exposure to craft beer in cans has been fairly limited.\u00a0 I’ve had Half Acre’s<\/a> Daisy Cutter<\/a> & Gossamer<\/a> out of tall boys, and frankly preferred them over the same beers out of a bottle or on draft.\u00a0 I also had a chance to sample Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale<\/a>.\u00a0 But all of those are somewhat lighter beers – beers you would expect to be good in a can.\u00a0 Up until this can of Old Chub, a Scottish Ale, I had never had anything with a higher ABV (8%).\u00a0 I’m not going to lie – I was skeptical.\u00a0 I didn’t really think a higher ABV beer and something that leans toward the darker side could be good out of a can.\u00a0 I was wrong.<\/p>\n

Old Chub (love the name) pours a dark brown in color with streaks of\u00a0 ruby red highlights.\u00a0 As you can see in the photo above a few fingers worth of khaki head rest atop this beauty.\u00a0 Sweet malts, dark fruits, raisins and a touch of booze are in the nose of this beer.\u00a0 Now THIS is what a Scottish Ale should taste like; loads of sweet malts, plums, black cherries, cocoa and raisins.\u00a0 This is balanced, rich and very sweet, but not overly sweet.\u00a0 There is just enough of a hop profile to keep these from being cloying.<\/p>\n

This has easily crept its way in to my top three of Scotch and Scottish Ales alongside Dark Horse’s Scotty Karate and Alesmith’s Wee Heavy.\u00a0 Oskar Blues absolutely nails the style and turned a skeptic of big and bold canned craft beers in to a believer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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