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Oskar Blues Ten FIDY

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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
9324.09/5.04.08/5.0Winter9.4%93.7Snifter
Commercial Description:
Oskar Blues has released a special draft-only seasonal beer for the winter months. Ten FIDY Imperial stout is a titanic wonder of a stout, immensely viscous, and loaded with neck-deep flavors of chocolate, malt, coffee, cocoa and oats. It’s the beer equivalent of decadently rich milkshake made with Whoppers malted-milk balls and Heaven’s best chocolate ice cream. Ten FIDY is about 10% ABV and is made with enormous amounts of two-row malts, chocolate malts, roasted barley, flaked oats and hops. Ten FIDY’s huge-but-comforting flavors hide a whopping 98 IBUs that are deftly tucked underneath the beer’s mountains of malty goodness.

Also affectionately known as Ten W FIDY (i.e., 10W-50).

Editor's Note: The brewery has had the ABV tested at a lab, which came out to 9.4%.

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 VikingHammer (362), Lynnfield, Massachusetts, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/59/104/517/20
May 20, 2009  
Pours like motor oil with a small brown head. Aroma of chocolate, caramel and coffee. Overall a very solid RIS. Velvet mouth feel and full bodied.


 SuIIy (1424), Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/515/20
May 15, 2009  
12 oz can. Pours a dark, thick oily black color with a small tan foamy head. Nose is chocolate malts with some dry bitter chocolate and a nice sweet hersheys note as well. kinda odd that all that contrasting odors is in there, but it is. Palate is thick and chewy with a nice mouth coating on the swallow. Flavors are chocolae with lots of roast dark malts and camp fire, smores kind of things going on.


acblue (52), Seattle, Washington, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/105/518/20
May 14, 2009  
Black with a creamy tan head; probably my favorite beer on looks alone. Somewhat light on aroma for the style; coffee and malt. Somehow sweet without a ton of chocolate in the flavor; molasses and coffee seem to be at the forefront.


 jredmond (1027), New Jersey, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/517/20
May 11, 2009  
CAN. Pours blackish-brown engine oil body. Slight chocolate aroma. Palate is great - taste is extremely well balanced, ery sweet and no alcohol in the flavor whatsoever.


 Pwn3d (1052), Manhattan, New York, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/518/20
May 10, 2009  
Can as image shows. Split with JRedmond. Pours like motor oil after about 10,000 miles of hard driving.. identical in both color and consistency. Nose is burnt roasted malt cocoa, sharpie pen, and Toasties. Taste is sweet with tons of malt. No indication of 9.4. Wondrous brew.


 TampaBrew (805), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
May 10, 2009  
pours black. sweet malt, toffee, roasted malt nose. flavor is much the same as the nose with some booziness.


BeerBaby (62), , Tennessee, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/516/20
May 8, 2009  
From a can, gift from SpringsLIcker. Very little tan head which clears quickly leaving a lacing on the glass. Chocolate flavor with some bitterness... more bitterness than sweet. Alcohol taste very present with a bitter aftertaste. Not one of my favorite imperial stouts. To me, a bit unbalanced, but drinkable. Could be the beer was a bit past it’s prime. I would like to taste it on draft and in prime aging.


 tokyogoat (507), San Diego, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/103/514/20
May 7, 2009  
This beer poured blacker than Samuel L Jackson and developed a perfect fingers head. I couldnt see bubbles in the swampy liquid, but carbonation was satisfactory. The flavors hit you in the mouth instantly, and leave you just as quick, very standard flavor profile for an RIS, roasted coffee, dark chocolate notes, with an odd aftertaste. I’m not that impressed and this beer doesnt really live up to the hype.



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