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The latest release from Oskar Blues Brewery looks to the company’s roots as a Cajun-style restaurant and blues bar to inspire Hazy Blues Juicy IPA. This 7% ABV relies on Citra, Galaxy, and Strata hops for its blast of fruit flavors and it’s available now. Press release: Oskar Blues Brewery … Continue reading
Colorado’s Oskar Blues Brewery, the first craft (or micro) brewery to can its beers, is celebrating two decades of its flagship Dale’s Pale Ale this year. Accordingly, the company is releasing a special “Throwpack” 15-pack of Dale’s, featuring three eras of can design from the past 20 years. Press release: … Continue reading
Oskar Blues Brewery, the original canning craft brewer from Colorado, has a new mixed 12-pack out that the brewery is calling The Works, which features three of its best sellers. The twist (if you want to call it that) is that instead of four cans of all three, this one … Continue reading
Colorado’s Oskar Blues Brewery is launching a new rotating IPA series it calls its Mutant IPA series, which will feature the “latest mutations in hops and hop technology.” The first in the series is Western Mutant West Coast IPA, which aims for a fresh take on the west coast style … Continue reading
Oskar Blues Brewery first began canning its beer in 2002, the first American craft brewer (or microbrewer if you prefer, which I used here) to do so, and it was its flagship Dale’s Pale Ale that was the first beer to be canned. This year is the 20th anniversary of … Continue reading
Imperial Stout is one of those styles you would never expect to see come from a can, yet Oskar Blues Brewing is doing just that with their Ten Fidy, a burly motor oil of a stout that’s 10.5% alcohol. Oskar Blues is of course most famous for being the first … Continue reading
During last year’s Canned Beer Week, I spent some time focusing on Oskar Blues Grill & Brewery as they were the first microbrewer to can their beer beginning in 2002. In addition to informally interviewing Marty Jones, their Marketing Director, I also did (post-Week) reviews of three of their beers: … Continue reading
Today I spoke with Marty Jones, the “lead singer, publicity/marketing director” for Oskar Blues Grill & Brewery, about the brewery, beer culture and—yes—canned beer. It’s not technically what I’d call an interview because I didn’t transcribe it, it was really more of an informal phone call, but I took copious … Continue reading