Oskar Blues is a well known and fairly well liked brewery out of Colorado. You’ve probably seen their cans out and about, like the green Old Chub, the red and blue Dale’s Pale Ale, and don’t they have a pilsner in a yellow can? And more to be sure. Speaking of, I got a chance to meet Dale of Dale’s Pale Ale when he was down in Texas doing some kind of junket with a bar down there. He turned my attention to the mash bill of Old Chub, where you can see even in the brewer’s description smoke is mentioned twice, so this felt like as good of a candidate for review (as any other non-smokebeer). I even stopped by the original Oskar Blues brewery the last time I was in Colorado… well over 37 pieces of flair stapled to the walls of that place. It’s a cool place. I don’t remember what I ate but I know I felt like a hippy when I ate it (perhaps due to the recreational marijuana wafting in from the dispensary down the street). But what about the beer you ask? This beer smells like a good scotch ale to me. And it tastes like a good scotch ale from the tap, not too surprising coming from a can. It registered with a medium darkness metric (4 smokestacks out of 7), and delivered a malty and dry swig. I’ve had this beer before and I’m familiar with their beer. They’re pretty consistent, and every time I have Old Chub, I think there’s just a bit too much carbonation in there. Thousands of tiny bubbles, which is somehow different from most every other beer, at least to me it is. But that’s no big deal. I like this beer. Overall score = 4.4 out of 7. I wonder who the Old Chub is?

Their website is cool, works, phone and desktop.

https://www.oskarblues.com/beer/oldchub