Oskar Blues Gubna Imperial IPA
Each year GUBNA takes on a personality of its own. We seek out the most exciting and best available hops from each individual season to create a potent and complex Imperial IPA. GUBNA is packed with Rye and North American Pale Malt and accented with Munich Malt to give a spicy and flavorful backbone to support loads of kettle hops driving the IBUs to triple digits.
** This beer will now feature different hops in the massive dry hop every year.
2015 - Features whole leaf Galena hops, plus Sorachi Ace and Columbus hops. Dry hopped with copious amounts of El Dorado, Comet and Chinook.
** This beer will now feature different hops in the massive dry hop every year.
2015 - Features whole leaf Galena hops, plus Sorachi Ace and Columbus hops. Dry hopped with copious amounts of El Dorado, Comet and Chinook.
3.8
1225 reviews
Longmont, United States
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Tap @ Craft Brew co Covent Garden. Amber with pure white head. An overwhelmingöy hoppy nose. Caramel with every conceivable fruity aroma. Floral, pine and grass with something like rye. Nice balance of everything in excess. Long, sweet and excessively hoppy finish.
Pours a clear orange colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, heavy hoppy, flower hops, fruity citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long duration, fruity, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft
Can from Liquor Barn. Aroma of malt, rye, and hops. Very complex as described.
Funny, can’t believe I hand’t rated this. Can from Lucky’s Market: aroma is nice ripe resiny citrus and sweet malt. tastes are overripe fruit, zesty, caramel. palate is medium to big and velvety. covers the booze. even long bitter finish. sweeter than I like, but well built.
Pours a medium golden color. Well carbonated. Big thick off white head that lasts and lasts. Great retention, good lacing.
Aroma is doughy. Tangerine and papaya. Maybe a little lemon and melon. Piney and floral hops.
Taste is more of the same. Heavy tropical fruit, milder citrus. It’s sweet and sticky. Malty and sweet. Bitter, but more in the throat and aftertaste. Pretty good hint of melon.
Mouthfeel is full bodied. Sticky and sweet. Bitter, but in the throat. Hides alcohol well. Smooth, but sticky.
Overall, this is really good. Tastes fresh and clean. Hard to come up with anything negative. It’s good. I’d drink it again. I’d buy it again, and I would recommend it.
Big, sweet IIPA. Pine, citrus... Loads of alcohol on the finish. Sweet and sticky.
Poured from the 12 oz can into a large wine glass. The appearance showcases a golden orange color with a dense 3 fingered head of dense white foam. The aroma hits me up front with papaya, mango and tangerine. Sweet cereal malt sets the base for the fruitfulness to shine through. On the taste there are more concentrated flavors of tropical fruit and tangerine with a syrupy malt spin.
At just on cool and into a snifter this one goes. Perplexed by the unexpected clarity of this beer - as in it shouldn’t be that way! A brilliant, mid orange with little as far as head retention. You know that canned pineapple cooks shouldn’t add onto a pizza, the aroma in this one has bucketloads. Amongst the syrupy pineapple is hints of passionfruit, caramelised stonefruit, medicinal floral notes and a wee tad kaffir lime leaf. On the palate there is some rough edges but otherwise it has the viscosity and oily texture of a hop bomb. Stewed fruits dominate; a mixture of pineapple, peach, pear and mango making it quite gammy and gummy. Sticky aftertaste similar to the fruit esters. Alcohol is well hidden for a 10’er. Astringent more than bitter. Burnt rubber phenols poke through also. Light vanillin and strawberry hit too, which actually graces it. No complexity. Pretty hop forward as I failed in my search for malts, but they lack depth. Sweet to the point of tiring. Really couldn’t dig this one. Not my particulars as far as DIPA. (12fl.Oz, BB monkeys with chainsaws, The Liquor Shed, Jandakot)
355mL can from Slowbeer. Canned on 03/25/16
Bright orange body, uniform haze, holds dense white head.
BIG hop driven nose! Bag loads of citrus, like a bag.. of.. citrus!? But seriously, it’s like a salad of oranges, and ruby grapefruit, and lemons, and mandarins. Green sort of melon/papaya character in there too - not much in the way of malt, touch of toast.
Full bodied, but certainly doesn’t feel 10%! Smooth, slick, moderate carbonation, scary drinkable!
There’s a skerrik of toasty sort of grainy malt upfront but it’s BOOM BAM citrus & tropical fruit hops from there within - orange & mandarin, paw paw & papaya, mango, banana even. There’s stacks of bitterness there, but it hardly registers at a brutal 100IBU that’s for sure.
A formidable IPA - citrus overload!
Pours amber with a large head.
Nose shows resinous and piny hops, citrus, peach, mango and clean sweet malt.
Flavours include truckloads of sweet clean malt, almost syrupy. Piny and resinous hops as well, along with lots of booze rolling through in the finish.
From a 355ml can on 5/9/2016. Pours a clear medium golden with a tiny head. The nose features some light fruity hops but it’s very subdued for a DIPA weighing in at 10%. Take a sip and there’s a more than decent caramel and biscuit malt backbone, with big doses of stone fruit sweetness (apricot and peach) and some pineapple. There’s a big assertive bitterness to stem the sweetness - it has a hint of grapefruit, resin and rye. There’s a touch of alcohol to let you know your drinking something big. The palate is a bit syrupy and the carbonation is modest. Very nice stuff.
From a can. Pours clear dull amber with a malty aroma, the huge alcohol content is well hidden, not as hoppy as expected.
Slight maple syrup/bourbon smell – not bad at all! – with a little floral hop (v mild smell of palma violet sweets). Not massive hops, but nicely balanced with malt. Would have again. Certainly does not feel as punishingly strong as ABV suggests it would.
10%ABV. Imperial IPA.
Poured out amber. 10°SRM.
Nose is honey, syrup, a little cloying and so pleasantly sweet. There is some light pine. There is also a hint of sandalwood incense right at the very end.
Mouthfeel is soapy. Palate is perfume, vanilla, caramel (very much so, almost thicklly so). Bitter tang of woodsmoke. Crayons and candlewax with some oily broadness. Eucalyptus oil. Pine. Pine needles.
Finish is medium-long. Bitter. Resinous.
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Can from Coppers, Newcastle. Hazy golden coloured with a thin white head. It has a very bitter tropical fruit and orange flavour with malty and whisky notes followed by a very powerful warming boozy pine and spicy orange finish. Excellent!
8/9/16. Can from Brevard. Great nose of pine and citrus but definitely not your classic west coast profile. Hops and alcohol well balanced which means huge hops in this case. Broad deep flavor with a lingering astringency.
Poured from can into pint glass
Appearance – Pours a hazy orange- amber color with a nice thick one finger white head that has good retention. The head fades slowly over time to give a great level of lacing.
Smell – The aroma is heaviest of a bready and citrus hoppy aroma. Mixed with these smells are some lighter pine and grassy hop aromas as well as a light tropical fruit smell of papaya.
Taste – The flavor starts out big and bready with some caramel and citrus sweetness. As the taste advances the hop quickly comes to the tongue. A citrus hop is initially detected with it heaviest of a grapefruit and tangerine flavor. A pine and grassy flavor however soon come to the tongue and becomes as strong, if not stronger then the citrus flavors. While the hop flavors get reasonably strong, in the end they are somewhat overshadowed by a quite boozy taste. The taste is of a whiskey and rum like flavor and when mixed with the hop, leave a piney/grassy and boozy flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is very creamy and chewy with a carbonation level that is quite low. The low carbonation and thick body coupled with the hop and booze make this one a very slow drinker; precisely what it should be.
Overall – A big and boozy tasting double IPA. One that warms and definitely one to sit and sip over a long time.
Trying to find an IPA that I like. Seems like iipa are more agreeable. This had the hops but also included much malt so it was balanced and not just a hop bomb. Resin nice palate light to no citrus some barleywine characteristics
Can from Willibees, Petaluma. Strong citrus, orange, pine aromas. Piney, bitter, grapefruit, garlic notes. Strong bitter herbal finish. Nice.
Can. Not quite as aromatic as many IIPA's but flavor makes up for it. Smooth, mild malt with nice hop balance.... Some woody tones as well.
Served on tap at Oskar Blues (NC). Clear orange Amber color with a white head. Resin orange hops flavor. Smooth heavy body.
Pours a deep dark orangish amber color. Aromas of big hop action, sweet malts, and more hops. Flavor has some caramel malty tastes with nice grapefruit and floral hop taste.
Hazy orangish amber with a lacing off white head. Citrusy, nice malt backbone with hoppy character in the finish. Good one.
on tap @ Party Town / Florence KY --- Fresh aroma of hops and malt. Clear medium/dark amber color, off-white head that drops to a full cover, hanging strands of lace. Taste is sweet malt with light rye bitter that pushes a shot of hops through the swallow, only to return to malt, and then tea in a long finish. A complex, nicely balanced brew.
Aroma - citrus, pine, and floral hops.
Appearance - the body is amber in color. The head is 2+" and off-white., and hangs around for a while.
Taste - has a mix of citrus (grapefruit like), pine, and floral hops. Nice clean crystal malt.
Palate - medium, texture is not oily, the carbonation is lively, the finish has a little dry bitter and grapefruit citrus note.
APPEARANCE - Amber, light, clear, 1FH.
AROMA/SCENT - Hops, fruit, pine, grass.
TASTE - Hops, bitter, pine, nutty.
MOUTHFEEL/PALATE/TEXTURE - Dry, smooth, lingering, warm, astringent
VALUE - $4.75 for a 12-oz. can. OK.
OVERALL/DRINKABILITY - Bitter, piney, nice!
Pour is a thick almost see through dark orange, thick head that dies after you drink, but retains a minimal presence after with kickass lacing.
smell is caramel, orange, bitter hops, pine, burnt sugar, it’s all there and very nice.
Taste has a front of caramel and citrus mix, sort of a dark chocolate orange and rich caramel flavor with the hops and the pine settling in for the after taste, which is sweet combating bitter
Massive citrus and pine in aroma. Copper with white head. Definetly a good beer since I don’t remember typing this.
Pours a clear rust orange/copper. A fruity malt, caramel, and floral hop aroma. A strong flavor malty flavor with citrus hops, caramel, and light fruits. A lingering malt and light bitter hop aftertaste.
Strong hop aroma towards pine and a sort of orange like thing. Rich. Pours clear copper with a nice stand up head. Taste is woah strong. Hop bitter dominates. The malt is good and not thin. Stands up to the hops. Alcohol warmth. There is some super orange hop flavor in there as well, but the bitterness hits me first. Aftertaste is a long bitter ride. Good slughtly oily body.