Old Chub - Scottish Style Ale - Oskar Blues Brewing Company

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rAvg: 4.01
pDev: 11.72%
Reviews: 1351
Hads: 995

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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), growler (2), cask (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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Reviews by kdb150:

kdb150

Pennsylvania

4.2/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Poured from a can at fridge temp into a generic chalice.

A - Smooth, fairly vigorous pour gives 2 fingers of khaki head, recedes to a thick ring with a thin coating. Color is a nice dark brown, with ruby highlights that come through when held up to the light. Leaves behind lots of lacing. Quite an attractive beer.

S - Smells lightly of peat, with a deep maltiness typical of the style. Very nice.

T - Wow, there is a lot going on here. Tastes of vanilla, caramel, toffee, and peat, with a bit of dark chocolate, and the slightest note of dark fruits in the background. Outstanding wee heavy flavor, this is some good stuff.

M - A bit syrupy, fairly typical of a wee heavy, what with all the malt and little hops to balance it out. Carb seems right on. What aftertaste it has is not quite as pleasing as the taste.

O - This is a very good wee heavy, and my go-to for one of my very favorite styles. From the many scotch ales I've tried, it seems that many brewmasters have trouble balancing such a malt-heavy beer so as to make it drinkable, and this has drinkability in spades, even with the fairly high ABV. One of the very best that doesn't have the benefit of barrel aging.

Serving type: can

08-10-2012 02:00:36 | More by kdb150

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MaximalC

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3.99/5 rDev -0.5%
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