devildeac wrote:bluebear wrote:devildeac wrote:OK, I'm calling rmd and bluebear out here. I bought a 6er of cans of Oskar Chub Blues Scottish Ale today at Total Wine, last one in the house, and they were out of the pale ale. This had better be good guys. I'm counting on some old reviews I remember one or both of you wrote. ;)

I've definitely had old chub(I have 4 cans in my cupboard) but can't remember if I ever review it. I like it...not as good as alesmith wee heavy or founders dirty bastard but a good scotch ale. I think a little milder than others. What do you think? Speaking f oskar blues, I've partaken in several gordons this week..great stuff. Tonight it is La fin du monde..a review to come tomorrow
Old Chub-Oskar Blues Brewery-darn good stuff-thanks bluebear and rmd or I'd have never tried this. Getting over my fear of beer in a can was rapidly overcome with the 1st whiff and taste. Not many folks make Scotch Ales but this has all the characteristics needed such as dark brown, highly malty with the sweetness of a good chocolate caramel candy. A bit of smoke and not much hop presence, so I'd guess the IBU at 30-40. ABV is 8% and it was slightly boozey. This makes a nice dessert beer, with or without some snicker doodle or oatmeal/chocolate chip/butterscotch cookies. I haven't had the SA Scotch Ale for a couple years and remember liking that a lot. The Traquair House Ale is the class of this category but at $5 for a 330 ml bottle (and that was about 5 years ago!), I don't buy many of those.

Glad you liked it..I too had great canned beer fear, but Gordon and Old Chub took car of that. Next will have to be Ten Fidy which is apparently the best of the bunch...
A few weekend reviews..La Fin du Monde..Tripel from Unibroue and a fantastic one at that. This rivals St. Bernardus as my favorite tripel. Pours a hazy yellow. Lots of sweet malts but in a surprisingly subtle way...like sweet banana bread. Very little hop but a fair amount of fruit funkiness. Excellent beer
Harpoon Imperial IPA---It could have been the 90 minute IPA that I had the previous night but I was disappointed in this beer despite a lot of positive feedback I've seen on it. It's similar to 90 minute in that it's not simply an all out bitter hopfest. There was a fair amount of malt as balance but a bit too much in my opinion. Taste ended up being too sweet and too boozy for me. I have 3 more so I'll likely give it another try this week. Not a bad beer by any stretch but it would be lower down on my list of double IPAs..
Lastly, I was up in North Conway, NH and visited a small local brewery, Moat Mountain. Fun little place to visit with decent beer. I ended up getting a 7 sampler, though in retrospect I wished I had gone with the Octoberfest which my wife tried. The sampler was a little on the light side with 2 wheat beers, 2 pilsners, a pale ale, a brown ale, and a lager. One of the wheats, their Hefeweizen, was my favorite of the lot. Hope to get back there in the fall and taste some of their darker offerings..