#12beers of Beercember Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
Six beers into Nathaniel Square’s #12Beers of #Beercember marks the half way point of the event, and I have to say it’s bee a lot of fun. Today though I am particularly challenged because today I am not supposed to be drinking beer….
You see I had a bit of minor surgery today, part of the recovery from said surgery is some pain meds that claim to not be compatible with alcohol such as that that may be found in beer. But!!!! I am not a quitter, no, I have enlisted the assistance of my wife for the finer notes of this brew and Will not be swallowing what I taste.
Tonight we have Oskar Blues Ten Fidy, coincidentally a brew suggested to me by @t_babb that I met at a Nathaniel Square Corner store tasting. So I was pleasantly surprised to find a can of this brew tucked into my #Beercember tasting pack.
Ten Fidy comes in a can, something we don’t see a lot of yet but I think we may see more and more craft brewers taking advantage of soon. It also has a really high ABV for a stout, a whopping 9.5%.
This brew pours from the can like 10W-30 oil, it’s pitch black, with a paper thin brown head. That taste is like an imperial stout on steroids. Everything about this beer is BIG. Big roasted malts, big coffee, big carbonation, and big ABV, oh wait I said that already, could be the pain meds…
Anyway, it’s true you can have too much of a good thing. Everything about this beer would be great if it were about halved. For example the roasted coffee flavor is so big at almost tastes burnt. The finish lingers with the taste of alcohol.
Now normally I do like the high alcohol beers, but this one is just trying a bit too hard for my taste. I have to rate this a 3/5. It;s a good beer, but I think all the big flavors hinder what could be a really great beer.
Disclaimer, I will have to come back to this one and try it sometime when I can properly enjoy (swallow) the brew.
So what did you think of this big brew? Go a head and let me know if the meds are interfering with my taste buds. :)
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