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Oskar Blues Gordon

Oskar Blues Gordon - Imperial/Double IPA

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 Percentile 
98
overall
Brewed by Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
Style: Imperial/Double IPA

Lyons, Colorado USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
9113.86/5.03.85/5.08.7%90.3Snifter, Tulip
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Commercial Description:
Gordon is a dry-hopped hybrid strong ale somewhere between a Double IPA and and Imperial Amber Ale (IAA). Brewed in tribute to the late Gordon Knight, Gordon is brewed with massive amounts of American hops and features about 85 IBUs and 8.7% alcohol by volume. Once a winter seasonal, Gordon is now a year-round, limited-supply offering.
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Sledutah (20), Utah, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Oct 22, 2009  
12oz can. Light golden color with a nice thick white head. A light amount of lace left on the glass. The aroma is floral and piney with hops. Taste has alot of alcohol, some hops and not much malt.


 patrick767 (2016), fort wayne, Indiana, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Oct 21, 2009  
tap at the Lyons brewpub - Pours deep copper with a very long lasting head and a great big citrus hop aroma. It tastes of huge hops with huge citrus flavors and yes, some big malt to support it. The smells and flavors of this beer definitely loom large and it works great.


 brenn79 (140), Idaho, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Oct 16, 2009  
12 oz. can- Pours cloudy reddish amber with a nice thick head. Tastes hoppy, almost piney, very good. The best can beer i’ve ever had.


 brewski519 (393), Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/514/20
Oct 8, 2009  
Sampled at WBF in Durham - poured a hazy golden color with a white head - aroma of hops, citrus, pine and caramel. The flavor was a nice hoppy grapefruit with a piney resin. Again - how does this stuff come out of a can tasting this good? Loving it.


 Botnik (100), Carrollton, Texas, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/516/20
Oct 7, 2009  
12oz can, deep golden color, thin white head, some lace. Interestingly complex flavor, adequate hops. A bit overrated but not overpriced.


 Wulfstan (509), California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 5, 2009  
This is a pleasant, fairly well balanced, but simple, uncomplicated double IPA, easily drinkable beer with some character but not much. Golden amber, it has a medium light tan head with hints of orange, slowly diminishing to a foamy ring with a tiny bit of weak lace. The aroma is sweet, full, and flowery with grapefruit, grapefruit ring, raisin, hints of resin, and canned pear. The taste is grapefruity with plenty of grape and raisin, caramelly grain. It’s fairly sweet with dry zetiness and very faint bitterness in the finish but lingering. It has unusual bitter-sweet balance, neither being leaning much to being sweet or bitter, but has dominant hop character.


lowgun1212 (75), Montclair, New Jersey, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/102/515/20
Oct 4, 2009  
reddish brown. smells like hops , black tea, pencil shaving, and a sweet fruit. a relativley soft flavor for all the hops. sweet and bitter hops for a long time. med-big body but pretty flat.


guerinfbfan (32), Elmwood Park, Illinois, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/518/20
Oct 3, 2009  
Pours an orange/amber color with an extremely thin white head. Strong aroma of hops and pine. Flavor consists of pine, huge hops, and a hint of caramel, with a bitter aftertaste. This is one that I really wanted to try and I am very glad that I did. Awesome that this Impy IPA is in a can. Way to go Oskar Blues!



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