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Oskar Blues Ten FIDY

Oskar Blues Ten FIDY - Imperial Stout

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 Percentile 
100
overall
Brewed by Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
Style: Imperial Stout

Lyons, Colorado USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
9204.08/5.04.07/5.0Winter9.4%93.4Snifter
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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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 Travlr (700), Washington, Washington DC, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/518/20
Dec 11, 2008  
The best thing to come out of a can since Guinness with a widget. Oil can black and thick, smoky and creamy, with chocolate and caramel. Best beer of the night, even if you count the Three Floyds tasting later that evening.


 travita (1865), Frisco, Texas, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/103/517/20
Dec 10, 2008  
Black as midnight in color with not too much its darker tan colored head. Smell is dark chocolate, roasted and toasted malts, coffee, oats, and more. Taste is bitter, coffee, chocolate, malts, and goodness. Pretty good.


 nightrider (370), encinitas, California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Dec 9, 2008  
Poured from a can was a pitch black oil with a good mocha tan head. The color from the can is awesome.Smells of sweet cocoa, malt, and caramel. The mouthfeel is thick smooth and rich. Flavors are very good with solid bitter hops , coffee, and molasses. Great long finish. Killer brew!!


 DalzAle (476), Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Dec 8, 2008  
Received via a trade with Beerlando. Poured extremely thick and syrupy into a pint glass, very thin oatmeal colored head. Noticable chocolate and alcohol aroma, but not overpowering. First sip tasted slightly smoky with a coffee aftertaste. Slight taste of alcohol, but in a good way. Will definitely try to get this one again sometime..


 graham515 (420), Houston, Texas, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/514/20
Dec 8, 2008    Updated: Dec 12, 2008
Pours an inky, viscous black ooze into the glass with a dark brown head. Aroma is chocolaty with some coffee notes. This beer is extremely sweet. I dont get a good balance of coffee and roasted grain so much as I get intense chocolate sweetness. Really good beer but overhyped for me


Headdogfish (6), Newark, Delaware, USA
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4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/105/518/20
Dec 6, 2008  
Was lucky to find this on tap. 12 oz snifter arrived with a black liquid topped with mahogany colored head. First sip gave a rich chocolate, malt and caramel flavor. A bit of burn in back of throat. Very nice sipping ale.


 kidmartinek (972), austin, Texas, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/517/20
Dec 6, 2008  
My gosh. This is ridiculous. Black beer with some good foam. Strong aroma. The taste wil kick you crazy. Incredibly strong sweet plum and alcohol flavor with a dash of stout malt. Rich, smooth, and deadly. You know its kicking your ass but your cant see it through the fog of all the smoothness. Can you tell by how coherent that just was. Rich sweet finish.


 glennmastrange (810), hobe sound, Florida, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Dec 5, 2008  
Can. Heavy malt aromas of toasted, molasses, coffee and dark bread, moderate hops and yeast aromas of resin and earth, with raisin, charcoal, cola and alcohol. Head is small, creamy, light brown with fair lacing and is fully diminishing. Color is black as tar. Flavor is moderately sweet and lightly acidic to start, then the extra long finish is lightly sweet and acidic and moderately bitter. Palate is full bodied, sticky/syrupy and the carbonation is almost flat. It finishes dry and lightly astringent. Drinking this Imperial Stout is like having a carnival in your mouth...in a good way.



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