Old Chub - Scottish Style Ale - Oskar Blues Brewing Company

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rAvg: 4.01
pDev: 11.72%
Reviews: 1351
Hads: 992

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Oskar Blues Brewing Company

Style | ABV
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy | 8.00% ABV

Availability: Year-round. can (1194), on-tap (82), bottle (68), nitro-tap (3), cask (2), growler (2).

Notes:
From the Oskar Blues website: "This jaw-dropping Scottish strong ale (8% ABV) is brewed with bodacious amounts of malted barley and specialty grains, and a dash of beechwood-smoked malt."

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Luigi

North Carolina

4.15/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

In recent years I have become open and noticed breweries who have down just as good as a job as bottlers.

Rich brown color with ruby highlights and a light tan head that ends at the tops of the glass. Retention is some impressive lacing that last the life of ale.

The aroma is full of toasted malt, chocolate malt, sweet alcohol, and a bit of smokey.

The flavor is a more intense than the aroma but the flavors are about the same, which is good. Roasted malt brings a mild chocolate flavor and bitter flavor. What balances the ale is the sweetness from the ALV%. Oskar brewery does a good job of blending these flavors together make the drinkability above average. But at 8%abv be careful.

Finished clean an kind slick on the tongue. Medium bodied with minimal carbonation making this ale easy to drink. So watch yourself. Other than that the best canned (but do not drink out of the can, Scotch ale!!!

Serving type: can

01-15-2012 03:02:32 | More by Luigi

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MaximalC

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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

Pours a murky molasses color with a thin khaki head. Aroma smells of molasses, brown sugar, and a faint nuttiness. The flavor is both sweet and roasted, but neither is cloying. This may be due in large part to a level of hopping that just about perfectly offsets the sweetness of the malt--far more balanced than I typically expect from a scotch ale. There is also a palpable alcoholic heat that adds an additional dimension to the flavor profile. The exact character of the malt is pretty difficult to dissect on account of how well everything melds. There's brown sugar and some nut, but that's as much as I can discern, at least without significant warming. The hops may overstay their welcome ever so slightly, but this is forgivable when one considers how well they serve the beer as a whole.

The stellar carbonation lends a creamy texture to the medium body that complements the flavor of the beer quite well. This is a brew where the whole definitely exceeds the sum of its parts. It's flavorful, lively, and sessionable in spite of its moderately high ABV (it strikes me as the scotch ale equivalent of Domaine DuPage). This is the first offering I've had from Oskar Blues, and I must say I'm impressed.

Serving type: bottle

05-17-2013 01:01:16 | More by MaximalC