Oskar Blues Old Chub
Old Chub is a Scottish style ale brewed with copious amounts of crystal and chocolate malts, and a dash of beechwood-smoked malts.
While Dale's Pale Ale ("the best-tasting canned beer I've ever had," according to many brewers and beer experts) is a showcase of both hops and pale malts, Old Chub is a celebration of malts.
The cola-colored beer features a dense, tawny head, a creamy mouthful and flavors of caramel, chocolate and lightly roasted malt. Complex and rich, it finishes with a whisper of smokiness that calls to mind a fine single malt scotch. Old Chub weighs in at 8 % alcohol by volume.
While Dale's Pale Ale ("the best-tasting canned beer I've ever had," according to many brewers and beer experts) is a showcase of both hops and pale malts, Old Chub is a celebration of malts.
The cola-colored beer features a dense, tawny head, a creamy mouthful and flavors of caramel, chocolate and lightly roasted malt. Complex and rich, it finishes with a whisper of smokiness that calls to mind a fine single malt scotch. Old Chub weighs in at 8 % alcohol by volume.
3.7
2212 reviews
Longmont, United States
Community reviews
Can, 0.355l. Aroma of caramel, dried fruit, flowers and bread. Pours cloudy dark brown color with thin creamy tan-like head and average sparkling appearance. Taste starts with medium sweet caramel and rich toasted malt, following is mild fruity, earthy and a bit smoky, mouthfeel is smooth, while finish is average bitter. Medium to full body, creamy texture and average carbonation in palate. Chubs for chubbies…
It pours murky amber, the head is caramel beige and mousse-like. The aroma has notes: caramel, shortbread, cracker, gram cracker, smoke, and charcoal. The taste is medium bitter and finishes dry. The palate is medium-full bodied, has medium carbonation; the finish is long and astringent with a big creamy mouthfeel. Overall, if it had a touch more sweetness it would really round out the astringency, otherwise a solid brew.
Can 356ml at home. From Beer Republic. Canned 2020-10-15. Pours dark brown with beige head. Flavor has dark malts, caramel, toffee, dried fruits,
355ml can from Dunell's in Jersey, pours brown with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of dried fruit, caramel, earth, biscuit, toffee, butterscotch & light roasted malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish. Very enjoyable
4pk of small cans from LCBO. Pours a small foamy beige head and has a fairly dark amber brownish appearance. Leaves some decent sticky lacing behind. Moderate carbonation. Aromas of light roasted and caramel malt, some wheaty and earthy notes. Flavours are mostly caramel malt, notes of molasses, dark roasted malt, raisins and plum hints. Somewhat of a sweet finish. Dry mouthfeel.
Schön malzig, Schokolade, mittig kommt etwas der Alkohol durch, Weinbrandschokobohnen, leicht röstig, schöner Absacker, lecker.
Nice surprise from the LCBO, good scotch ale/wee heavy, nice sipping beer while questing online.
Can shared at MONYO with Gabor Gábor. Dark copper pour, dense beige head. Nose is biscuits, caramel, light dried fruits and nuts. Taste is moderately sweet caramel, biscuits and a hint of chocolate. Closes with an abrupt finish, has a light body and soft carbonation. Wouldn't be bad but it feels kinda thin.
On tap, 200mL.
Very black.
Very biscuit-y.
Toasted malt, digestive biscuits, dark chocolate:
On tap at Das Beer Garden. Deep brown. Smells of toffee and caramel. Light butterscotch notes. Tastes of toasty malts, hop bitterness, then toffee and faint hints of butterscotch. Medium heavy. Hoppy enough to barely taste like a wee heavy. Mostly tastes like a big, sweet brown ale, but hints of the scotch ale come back in the back end.
Color mogano scuro con riflessi rossi, cappello color crema molto cremoso e dalla discreta persistenza. Profumo, crosta di pane, caramello, cioccolato, liquirizia, leggero affumicato. La bevuta rispecchia le sensazioni olfattive, dominano i malti con un percorso dolce gentile bilanciato da una delicata amaricatura finale su toni erbacei e da un solido ma gentile ABV. Il corpo è molto morbido e rotondo e la carbonazione bassa
Canned 12/16/20 & consumed 3/7/21: Slight sweet malt nose; amber hue with tan lace; medium mouthfeel with very soft carbonation; taste has a medium bitter caramel malt taste that transcends to a dry placid finish. Don't really sense any 'smoke' as the website says and it would help if the malt taste and finish was a bit more robust.
Dark brown with thin head. Aroma and taste are roast malt and bread. A little sweetness.
Can brown nutty coloured. Dark bready malty nose, some malty sweetness, some aurupy notes. Some roast, dark caramel. Full bodied smooth, quite easy. Lacking even.. ok, clean nice slightly boring
355ml can. Pours very dark brown with a large head. Aroma is toffee, cola and light smoke. Taste has toffee, cola, caramel and light smoke.
Can at home, Dark brown beer, small head. Aroma is malt, roast, sweet, fruit, raisins. Taste is the same, sweet, raisins, dark fruit, bitter, sweet fruity aftertaste. Nice
355 ml can from the LCBO. Pours a clear rust colour with modest-sized cream-coloured head. Aroma is sweet caramel, chocolate and toastiness. Flavour has loads of sweet caramel and toffee, some chocolate and some toasted grains. Sticky mouthfeel. Nice.
Malt-forward aroma, with strong caramel and some fruity esters. Mild.
Copper, translucent, well carbonated on the pour. Fluffy, rocky, beige head, superlative retention and great lacing. Clear fermentation character.
Richly malty, with caramel and Maillard products. Mild fruity hops that go along with the malts. Medium-low bitterness, and minor alcohol taste. Finish in a sudden dry way, after the load of sweetness. Maillard in the after taste.
Very smooth and creamy, medium-full body, moderate carbonation.
Overall, pretty solid, a good version of Wee Heavy.
Very dark amber but not opaque with off white head. Dark roasty malt aroma. Dark roasted malt, currant or raisin, slightly Smokey flavor. Creamy mouth feel.
A 12 fl. oz. can, canned on 10th May 2019 ‘eyes up here’. Poured into a snifter glass. It was a dark amber copper colour with a one finger beige head that dissipated fairly quickly but left lots of nice spotty lacing. Aromas sweet, caramel malt, dark stone fruit, plum, cherry, cherry coke and pine. Tastes of light sweetness, light roast, chocolate malt, caramel, coffee, with a hint of smoke and dark stone fruit. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Overall I like the aroma, but flavour while not bad, didn’t quite match my expectation after that initial whiff.
Terrible flavor of beer didn’t like the after taste
Dark brown color with tanned head. Aroma has dark malt, chocolate, coffee and vanilla. Taste is malty sweet with long sweet aftertaste. Flavors of caramel, dark malt, vanilla, toffee and sweet fruity notes. Excellent mouthfeel. Well balanced malty body with lots of taste.
A dark brown beer, a head is medium and beige. Aroma has breadyness and caramel maltyness, hint of dried fruitness, raisin. Taste has dried fruits, plum, apricot, some breadyness, chocolate, caramel, not too sweet. Medium+ bodied, smooth. Complex. This is a great beer.
Heavier & complex. malt & toffee.
Not a fan of the aftertaste
You can’t drink too many or you’ll be old chubbin in the bathroom (hopefully). It’s got a great smoothness to it and is one of the better scotch ales, especially if you’re looking for something with more flavor than bite.
Can from Beer Republic. Dark pour with thin head. Loads of roasted malt, some chocolate, toffee. Nice beer, a little sickly if you drink it too quickly.
355ml (8%) at home on 5 Apr 2020, purchased from Good Spirits Company, West Nile Street, Glasgow on 27 Oct 2018 (bb 17 Jul 2019): fruity, malty aroma, deep chestnut brown, good fawn head, irregular spottled lacing, ethanolic toffee flavour, viscous, good carbonation, sweet, no alcohol burn.
Pours brown with a thick creme head. Aroma of aromatic alcohols, woody notes. Taste has sweet malt backbone, chocolate, hints of caramel. Palate has toasted malt, scotch on the nose. Good.
On tap at the beer temple. Pours dark red with small head. Aroma is dark malts, caramel. Big body. Flavour is malty, rich and sweet, loads of caramel, some nutty notes. Lovely sipper. Good example if the style.