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Oskar Blues Ten FIDY

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100
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bottled
common

on tap
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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 BeerFanDan17 (610), Land O Lakes, Florida, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/519/20
Nov 20, 2008  
Wow--this is serious. This imperial stout is incredible. Roasted coffee, dark chocolate, and malt. Black as night with a creamy head. Really unique and quite tasty.


 Tejas (695), Dallas, Texas, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/518/20
Nov 20, 2008    Updated: Nov 21, 2008
I’m sorta over the whole big beer/imp stout thing, even in the winter, so i have trouble getting excited about these. Having said that, this is pretty f’ing solid. Little alcohol taste and lots of roasty flavors. Super chocolatey and creamy to boot.


 mjg74 (1995), La Mesa, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Nov 20, 2008  
Can, picked up at Beverages 4 Less. Pours thick and black, like motor oil. I’ve never had a canned brew that poured like that before. Pitch black in my glass. Strong roasted malty aroma. Some alcohol is present, along with some vanilla and black licorice. Slick oily mouthfeel. Flavor is roasted malts and coffee. Somewhat bitter malty/coffee finish. Solid impy stout.


 tgncc (809), Bellmore, New York, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Nov 19, 2008  
I was on line for Oskar Blues at Brewtopia 2008, and they ran out of this before I even got up there, in the first 15 minutes of the festival. Awesome aroma: roasted coffee, chocolate, malts and a whiff of alcohol. The appearnce, true to its style, is a beautiful brown/black, chestnut brown head. The flavor is roasted coffee, cappucino, oats. Very thick, chewy mouthfeel. The finish is slight warming from alcohol, but a substantial bittering, from both the roasted malts, and the hops. Starts out sweet, finishes bitter. Very nice effort.


 djd07 (733), Houston, Texas, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/517/20
Nov 19, 2008  
On tap at Flying Saucer. Has a dark brown with a large tan head that lasts awhile. The aroma is a very sweet roasted malt and chocolate. Good sticky lacing on the glass. The taste is a rich roasted malt, coffee, and oats. Hides the alcohol well, a very impressive Imperial Stout from Oskar Blues.


 jujubeast6000 (776), Houston, Texas, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/102/512/20
Nov 18, 2008  
Reviewed 11/6/2008 (Tap @ Flying Saucer, Houston, TX): Pours an inky black hole color body. Big tan head, good lacing, somewhat diminishing. Coffee alcoholy aroma, dark fruitiness, some dustiness. Coffee taste, watery, hot. Dusty. Warming up…Still a little hot, dusty. Malty, dark chocolately taste. Eh, not a fan.


 Dogbrick (2855), Columbus, Ohio, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/518/20
Nov 18, 2008  
On draught at Pizza Port Solana Beach. Pours jet black with a medium thick dark brown head that recedes slowly. Rings of lacing on the glass. Loads of roasted malt in the nose along with chocolate and vanilla coffee. Rich and velvety body with flavors of malt and mocha with a nice balance of hops in the background. The finish is malted chocolate with a tasty bitter coffee finish. Very good all around.


 scoth (274), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/56/104/515/20
Oct 31, 2008  
Can. Pours like used motor oil, thick, black, almost completely opaque, with a thin tan head, good lacing. Smells of chocolate, coffee, caramel and oatmeal. Medium-thick body, crisp. Tastes like it smells, but the oats come through even stronger in the flavor, and the alcohol flavor is strong. It became sweeter as I drank, perhaps due to warming. A dry bitterness is powerful, especially in the aftertaste.



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