Oskar Blues Old Chub
Beer-a-Day #313 
I was at my favorite retailer recently and I was able to score seven craft beers in cans. Why not “Can Week”?
Today: Old Chub from Oskar Blues.
Old Chub is a Scottish strong ale brewed with hearty amounts of seven different malts, including crystal and chocolate malts, and a smidge of US and UK hops. Old Chub also gets a dash of beechwood-smoked grains imported from Bamburg, Germany, home of the world’s greatest smoked beers. Old Chub is 8% alcohol by volume.
While Dale’s satisfies our hop addiction, Old Chub takes care of our deep affections for malt.
The cola-colored beer (almost black) features a tan head, a creamy, skim-milk mouthfeel, and rich, semi-sweet flavors of caramel and chocolate throughout. The addition of smoked grains gives Old Chub a delicate kiss of smoke on the finish.
Old Chub is the beer equivalent of a lightly smoked single malt scotch, or your favorite dark chocolate. We call it Rocky Mountain Mutha’s Milk. People who tell us defiantly, “I don’t drink dark beer,” often fall deeply in love with Old Chub. We can’t blame them.
Dark coppery color. Warm, almost smoky aroma. Big, malty flavor with a good bit of complexity. That’s pretty good, although I don’t think I’d want it more than occasionally.
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Old Chub is quite a beer. Although I love the hops most of the time, Old Chub does fulfill that occasional malt craving better than many other beers.
Delicious!