Oskar Blues Brewing

Oskar Blues To Can Whiskey Too

Oskar Blues Brewing  (Lyons, CO) is making plans to start canning something new and it’s not beer.   It’s Whiskey.    Soon Colorado will know Lyon Soul Distilling.

The barn (where the Oskar Blue’s can beer revolution got started, and The Foo Fighters Continue Reading →

Oskar Blue’s Deviant Cans

Oskar Blues Brewing will be releasing Deviant Dale’s Tallboy cans this year.  The first pallet of these new cans have arrived at the brewery.  Deviant Dales is a hopped up edition of Dale’s Pale Ale.

Oskar Blues Hoppy Deviant In Tallboys

Oskar Blues (Lyon, CO) will be bringing Deviant Dale’s Pale Ale to 16oz tallboys in 2012.  This hopped up offering launched last January on tap at Colorado Old Chicago restaurants.  It was the first collaboration on a exclusive brew that Continue Reading →

Fuh-CAN-eh

Clever advertising for Oskar Blues.  [Kegworks]

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Oskar Blues To Can Whiskey Too

Oskar Blues Brewing LogoOskar Blues Brewing  (Lyons, CO) is making plans to start canning something new and it’s not beer.   It’s Whiskey.    Soon Colorado will know Lyon Soul Distilling.

The barn (where the Oskar Blue’s can beer revolution got started, and The Foo Fighters have played) will house a new distillery.  The still is already ordered and will be ready by Summer, 2012.  Dale Katechis (you know him without knowing him: Dale’s Pale Ale)   His grandfather owned a still when he was growing up in Alabama so distilling seems to have always been in his blood.   The first two products to be sold will be an Organic Agave Nectar using local Madhava honey, and a whiskey made from brewery mash, aged in french oak barrels.

Ironically, this isn’t the first crossover by Oskar Blues into the distilling world.  They brewery used to provide the mash to Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey in the past few years.  (Plus they have used Stranahan’s barrels for beer aging.)   For those who partake on non-alcoholic beverages,  OB is planning on canning their root beer too.

In other news from Oskar Blues: The brewery is collaborating with Sun King to make “Chaka“, and is shipping Deviant Dales in tallboy cans.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Coming Soon, Oskar Blues Brewing, Sun King Brewing

Oskar Blues & Sun King Create “Chaka”

Oskar Blues Sun King ChakaOskar Blues (Lyon, CO) and Sun King Brewing (Indianapolis, IN) are brewing up a new can collaboration – Chaka.  The beer will be a Belgian style ale with ingredients from both states.  Shagbark hickory syrup will be added from Indiana, and Belgian pale malt from Colorado malting.  Dave Colt from Sun King and Dave Chichura from Oskar Blues have been friends for years.  They met when Colt was working at Circle V Brewing in Indiana.

According to Hoosier Beer Geek, Chaka will be brewed this spring, debuting at the Craft Brewer’s Conference in May.   Oskar Blues & Sun King will brew an edition of Chaka.  Interestingly, Oskar Blues isn’t currently distributed in Indiana.  This collaboration would be the first time the brewery’s beer would hit the state.  

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Oskar Blues Brewing

Oskar Blue’s Deviant Cans

Oskar Blues Brewing will be releasing Deviant Dale’s Tallboy cans this year.  The first pallet of these new cans have arrived at the brewery.  Deviant Dales is a hopped up edition of Dale’s Pale Ale.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Oskar Blues Brewing

Oskar Blues Hoppy Deviant In Tallboys

Oskar Blues Deviant Dales PaleOskar Blues (Lyon, CO) will be bringing Deviant Dale’s Pale Ale to 16oz tallboys in 2012.  This hopped up offering launched last January on tap at Colorado Old Chicago restaurants.  It was the first collaboration on a exclusive brew that was intended for OB’s tap rooms.

What’s Deviant Dale’s?

It’s a double edition fo the perennial favorite – Dales’s Pale Ale.  The brewery describes it as “a sensory assault for Hop Lovers.”   There are 4 hop editions during the hop process, and final massive dry hop of Columbus hops. Hops, hops and more hops.  Not just for tap handles anymore.  We’re talking tallboys baby!

Style: IPA
Availability: Draft, & soon 16oz tallboy cans
Arrival: TBA

7.5% ABV 

Let’s sling a little mud, girl.  Sippin on a tallboy

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Oskar Blues Brewing

Beer Spelled Backwards Is An Oskar Blues Mountain Bike

Oskar Blues out of Longmont, CO seems to have expanded outside of the realm of aluminum cans and created its own brand of bicycles called “Reeb” (spell it backwards… that’s right, it spells beer!).  The first edition from the Reeb will be a single gear mountain bike that will go the rough Colorado terrain.  The frame for the Reeb will cost $1200, but if you want the fully awesomed edition, it’s going to cost you between $3000 and $4000.  About 20 of the bikes have already been produced, most of which were bought by employees.  The bikes are single speed, rubber belt driven, and 100% handcrafted.

The details the Reeb Mountain Bike:

Chad Melis, marketing director for Oskar Blues, said the company is manufacturing handmade, steel, single-speed, 29er hardtail mountain bikes using the Denver-based Gates’ Carbon Drive system.

The Gates Carbon Drive system is a “belt”-driven bicycle drive that replaces a standard chain, according to the company. Compared with a normal chain that requires lubrication and maintenance, Gates said its belt drive is maintenance free.

Above is a pic of the soon-to-be coveted Reeb at Oskar Blues in October.

[BoulderBusiness]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Brewery Expansions, Oskar Blues Brewing

Oskar Blues Expansion Begins, Deviant Dales In Tallboys

Oskar Blues Brewing (Lyon, CO) has broken ground on their new brewery expansion.  A few changes go along with the expansion:

New canning line.  (See image below)  This is a picture of the new canning line. It takes the can production from around 160 cans per minute to over 300.

12oz AND 16oz formats.  Oskar will be making tallboy cans

6 new 200 barrel fermenters.  That’s 37,200 more gallons of fermenting space.  Brings the grand total of 35 fermenters on site

1 Additional 400 barrel Brite Tank (12,400 gallon capacity)

Total output in 2011 is on schedule to be 80,000 barrels (2.4 million gallons) or 26,453,33 cans. (If they only made cans of course.)

The brewery expansion builds over the “game room” and gift shop area of the Tasty Weasel – aka the tasting room.  Below you’ll see pics of the game room area before the expansion began.

NEW BEER! Deviant Dale’s IPA. A GABF silver medal winner, soon to be in 16oz cans.

Pic of the New Canning Machine 

 

The Old Game Area Adjacent To The Tasty Weasel (Expansion is going here)

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Oskar Blues Brewing

Fuh-CAN-eh

Clever advertising for Oskar Blues.  [Kegworks]

by Reid Ramsay