Oskar Blues canned brews

I like Oskar Blues' Old Chub very, very much. It seemed a little odd to me, too, to be tasting such good beer from a can. I haven't tried the DPA yet.

I heard that Oskar Blues has put out some really good, robust seasonal beers in cans, too.

Why not? It's not like you're going to be driving anywhere. If you can crawl to the tent, what else do you need to do?

Tom

When you've got a couple of kids, you have to keep your wits about you somewhat!

----------------------------------------------------- Pete Clouston Lawrence (KS) Brewers Guild

That would be "Gordon" their seasonal DIPA. They sold it in 4 pack cans. It was a limited run and they couldn't actually get the cans printed so they slapped a sticker on each plain silver can.

_Randal

Right. Was it the tasty DIPA it was rumored to be?

I liked it a lot. It had huge hop character but I thought the malt did a great job of balancing it out.

Thought the Old Chub was a good Scotch Ale, but the Dale's Pale Ale was great, great stuff. Would be nice to see more canned micros for all sorts of reasons, but the prejudice against canned beers is probably going to stick around similar to prejudices against wines with artificial corks. Established practice is hard to buck.

Sherwood Forest Brewers of MA. also can their beer. What I've had from them was unremarkable, though.

Beer like Old Chub could make beer drinkers radically rethink their assumptions about canned beer.

I read that they put some chocolate malt in it. I hope they'll release it again.

I've also had Caldera Pale Ale in cans. It's a little smoother than the Oskar Blues, but retains a strong hop charachter. I prefer it to the Oskar Blues for this reason.