OB Ten FIDY in Denmark

Just saw that Oskar Blues Ten FIDY Imperial Stout is currently available over at Ølbutikken in Copenhagen. That is really good news for the Danes and for us up here in Scandinavia. So now I understand where the OB Ten FIDY maybe came from when it was spotted over at Akkurat today, at least that is my theory.

From the site it says;

Navn: Ten FIDY
Bryggeri: Oskar Blues Land: USA Øltype: Stout
Indhold: 330 ml Alkohol: 9,4 % Pris: 52 kr
Beskrivelse:
Dåseøl!!

Well 52 kr for this amazing beer, that is really a bargain. Imperial Stout pouring as motor oil in a can, great stuff!!.

For learning some Danish, it seems that "Dåseøl" means a beer on a can (burköl in Swedish).

QUICKTAKE: A master piece on a can...

What can you say, it can not be any better; A Imperial Stout from on a can from Oskar Blues Brewery, Lyons, Colorado. Bought Oct 10 over at Lyons, Colorado, which seems to be the first day this amazing beer was avaible in a can. So I bought 4 to get home (one was consumed on the bus back to Denver).

It was a great feeling to taste this beer back home and in my own living room, and just fresh from the fridge.

It can be only Oskar Blues that would come up with the crazy idea to produce a strong Imperial Stout (10% ABV) on a can. But what can you say, it can not so much better, and it surely works.

The beer pours like a very thick motor oily texture, black like the night. It has virtually no head. It has some very strong roasted coffee scent´and toffee are also present. And the great thing is that you can not feel any trace of alcohol, just some nice warmness fills you up.

We are already waiting for when this beer will be available over here in Sweden, based on the fact that we already have the current line up of OBs at severial places around the country. For example the Bishop Arms pubs has them and is practically seen as a house beer over at Oliver Twist.

Amazing to know that all these amazing beer cans are all being produced in this little barn over at Lyons (photo taken during our brewery tour in October and the same day as the stout was released as a regular beer).

GBTD-07: The tour and the beers

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Our beer tour in Colorado during the GABF was mostly about the beers, so what did we have?.

But it is always a bit tricky to keep track of everything you drink, so I have probably missed some of the beers during the trip (mostly during the massive number of strange brews we had or did not have at the Falling Rock during the late nights in Denver).

Any way here is the "complete" nerd list;

Saturday October 6
1. Boulder Beer Cold Hop
2. Mountain Sun Illusion Dweller
3. Mountain Sun I&IPA

Sunday October 7
4. Pumphouse Kilt lifter
5. Pumphouse Flashpoint IPA
6. Pumphouse Red Alert
7. Pumphouse Pyro Porter
8. Pumphouse Igniter Pale Ale
9. Avery Elites Brown Ale
10. ODells 90 Shilling Ale
11. Left Hand Milk Stout
12. Avery IPA
13. ODells 5 Barrel Pale Ale
14. Redfish Treehugger Organic IPA
15. Boulder Beer Hazed & Infused
16. Redfish Big Easy Pale Ale
17. Walnut Seasonal Wheat Beer
18. Walnut Buffalo Gold
19. Walnut Indian Peaks Pale Ale
20. Walnut St. James Irish Red Ale
21. Walnut Big Horn Bitter
22. Walnut Old Elle Brown Ale
23. Walnut Devils Thumb Stout
24. Bj Tatanka Stout
25. Bj Piranha Pale Ale
26. Bj PM Porter
27. Stone Black IPA (Old Chicago)

Monday October 8
28. Avery Hog Heaven
29. Avery The Reverend (oaked)
30. Avery Dramant
31. Avery Breezes Bad Karma oaked (cask)
32. Avery The Beast 07
33. Oskar Blues Tenfidy Stout
34. Oskar Blues IPA
35. Oskar Blues Pale Ale
36. Estes Park Renegade IPA
37. Estes Park Samson Stout
38. Estes Park Trail Ridge Red
39. Estes Park Porter
40. Estes Park Raspberry Wheat
41. Estes Park Stinger
42. Estes Park Gold
43. New Belgium Fat Tire
44. CooperSmiths Sigdas Green Chilli
45. CooperSmiths Not Brown Ale
46. CooperSmiths Oktoberfest
47. CooperSmiths Kölsch
48. CooperSmiths Punjabi Pale Ale
49. ODells 5 Barrel Pale Ale
50. ODells Cutthrout Porter
51. Full Sail IPA
52. Stone IPA

Tuesday October 9
53. New Belgium 1554
54. New Belgium Lips of Faith
55. New Belgium 2 Below
56. La Folie Sour Brown
57. Abbey
58. Fort Collins Brewery Major t p Wheat
59. Fort Collins Brewery Retro Red
60. Fort Collins Brewery Rocky Mountain IPA
61. Fort Collins Brewery Z lager (rauch bier)
62. Fort Collins Kidd Lager
63. Fort Collins Chocolate Stout
64. ODells Hillbilly Hefeweissen
65. ODells Double Pilsner
66. ODells Isolation Ale
67. ODells cutthroat Stout (nitro)
68. ODells Easy Street
69. ODells Levity Amber Ale
70. ODells 5 barrel Pale Ale
71. ODells 90 Shilling Ale
72. ODells IPA
73. Cutthroat Porter
74. Rock Bottom (Longmont) Double Barrel Pale Ale
75. Dry Dock SS Mirror Pale
76. Dry Dock Mild
77. Dry Dock Enterprise IPA (nitro)
78. Dry Dock Breakworker Pale Ale
79. Green Flash West Coast IPA
80. Summit Extra Pale Ale
81. Boulder Beer Hazed & Infused
82. Arrogant Bastard
83. Great Divide Titan IPA (Cask)
84. Victory Hop Devil
85. Oskar Blues Gordon Double IPA

Wednesday October 10
86. Boulder Beer Mojo IPA
87. Boulder Beer Mojo Risin Double IPA
88. Boulder Beer Stout
89. Left Hand Milk Stout
90. Left Hand Imperial Stout
91. Pumphouse Pyro Porter
92. Oskar Blues Oaked Gordon
93. Oskar Blues Pale Ale
94. Oskar Blues tenfid Imperial Stout (canned)
95. Lagunitas IPA
96. Lagunitas Undercover Shutdown

Thursday October 11
97. Great Divide DPA
98. Great Divide Titan IPA
99. Great Divide Hibernation
100. Great Divide Barley Wine
101. Great Divide Belgian IPA
102. Breckenridge Amber
103. Breckenridge Pale Ale
104. Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout
105. Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
106. Breckenridge R220 Red
107. Breckenridge 471 IPA
108. Breckenridge Lager
109. Avery Uber Schwein (oaked hog heaven)
110. Summit Pale Ale
111. Stone Double Bastard 05
112. Stone Imperial Stout 03
113. HeBrew Jewelation Whiskey Oaked
114. HeBrew Lenny On Rye (RIPA)
115. HeBrew Anniversary 11
116. Stone Anniversary 11
117. Stone Vanilla Porter

Friday October 12
118. Flying Dog Double Dog Pale
119. Flying Dog Doggie Style Pale Ale
120. Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Stout
121. Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

Saturday October 13
122. ??? IPA (pitcher)
123. Anchor Steam (cask)

Sunday October 14
124. Great Divide DPA

This was the beer that I tested myself and is not connected to the actual GABF festival, which is an other story.

GBTD-07 (GABF): 2nd Annual Boulder County Brews Cruise 2007

One of the best beer experiences I have had took place before GABF actually started. We first heard about the brews cruise through Jugge over at OT a few weeks before we went over to Colorado and something that we are very glad that we did not miss.

The Boulder Country Brews Cruise is a event arranged by the good people over at Left Hand Brewery and this was the second year that they arranged it. The concept is simple, for the bargain price of 40 bucks you get a t-shirt, a arranged bus that will take you to 4 different interesting breweries in the Denver area, breakfast and lunch, plus a bunch of lovely and interesting people to join you on the beer cruise.

Everyting started out in morning outside the convention centre where GABF was held in central Denver. A full bus of people started the journey for "breakfast" and the first beer of the day. Together with the normal beer crew we also got good company with the people from OT and Akkurat (local pubs in Stockholm). So we had a great group of people from Sweden to acompany the rest of the Americans on the bus.

First stop was Boulder Beer outside Boulder, a brewery with great beers like Mojo IPA and Hazed & Infused. We got some breakfast and the opportunity to check the brewery with a short brewery tour. Boulder Beer is really a pioneer as a micro brewery in the US if you recon that it started out so early as 1979. At that time the only existing micros was anchor in san fran and a few others. So its fun to see that the brewery is very lively and continues to produce new and exiting beers.

The journey continued and we ended up in Longmont and the Left Hand Brewery. We were met by Eric Wallace who is the founder and brewer of Left Hand. We all met him when he visited the Stockholm Beer festival in September and when we had a tasting round together with him at the OT booth.

So this was the second time we met and it was fun to actually meet him at his own brewery and hometown of Longmont. The beers were all excellent as they alway are. Had a amazing cask version of the milk stout that you could drink all night long, seems that this stout is getting better and better in my mind.

Together with the Imperial Stout also on cask this was probably the best beers we had during the beer cruise.

Jugge and the rest of OT gang disapeared during the end of the visit to Left Hand, so we had to leave them behind.


Seemed that they got the opportunity to have a additional sampling somewhere at the brewery, it was told that it was something new and exiting that Eric sneaked out of the brewery!

Next stop it was time for the Pumphouse Brewpub in central Longmont. Here we got lunch and a new beer of the day. What I remember I had the porter, which is quite nice as a beer, and very traditional to the style. Seems that Pumphouse is doing a full range of beer styles and is very focused on English style beer and following that tradition. A nice place for food and sports if you are into that.

The OT gang got back to the bus through the help of Eric W and a couple of Mountain Beer Mixers that was later passed on through the bus (which increased the mood on the bus, so when we later arrived in Lyons and Oskar Blues we had started to learn the Americans on the bus Swedish beer songs, or something, :-))





Last stop for the day was Oskar Blues over at Lyons which is really where the mountain region starts, so it is a very exiting place and a great place for such a amazing brewery. Located in a very small building, you here have a brewery, restaurant, bar and blues club.


We got some great beers (Oaked Gordon!) and got the oppotunity to check out how they handles the cans (yes, if you do not know it, this brewery makes all the beer in cans).


They now even has put their great imperial stout in a can, which is really a great idea, so I bought a 4-pack of the Tenfidy imperial stout to take back home. 4 amazing beers for the amount of 10 bucks, that is really a bargain.

Spent the last hour of the beer cruise at the outdoors terrace with a pint of OB and did not want to leave. You could probably have been sitting there for the rest of the day but the bus was leaving, so we simply had to leave and get the last pint of OB Pale Ale with us on the bus.

With some additional Swedish beer songs and some explanations about who we were at the front of the bus we continued the journey back home to Denver. Seems that everyone on the bus had a blast during the day and if you ever go to GABF I really recommend to get on the bus, this is really a good start of the festival and in some sense this was even more fun than the actual festival.

Also thanks to "J" over at The Beer Hermit blog for taking a nice picture of us when had the beers over at OB in the sun.

More pictures from this amazing day can be found here;

GABF07 (Left Hand Beer Bus Cruise)