Oskar Blues releases Barrel-Aged Ten FIDY and BA Imperial Stout w/ Graham Crackers
Colorado’s Oskar Blues Brewery is famous for cans and barrel-aged beers, and with stout season coming into play they have some big new releases to fulfill both categories. Barrel-Aged Ten FIDY Imperial Stout is making a return and so is a new version of the ongoing barrel-project series with BA21 Vol. 7, this one an Imperial Stout with graham crackers. Both beers are now available in limited quantities.
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“Barrel-aged beers are so special because of the amount of care and work that goes into them from so many different people,” said Sara Laurienti, Oskar Blues Longmont’s Director of Brewery Operations. “The quality of our barrel-aged beer directly correlates to the time that our team puts in when it comes to brewing the beer, filling the barrels, organizing the barrel storage for blending and emptying the barrels. Barrel-aging is one of the few things that is really ‘all hands on deck’ across all departments in the brewery.”
BA21 vol. 7 (11.5% ABV) is the newest edition of Oskar Blues’ barrel-aging program, which began in 2020 and continues to produce limited release barrel-aged beers with unprecedented flavor combinations. This imperial sweet stout is brewed with graham crackers for a biscuity backbone that stands up to months of aging in whiskey barrels. Additions of rich chocolate and juicy cherry send this sucker to the sweet, sweet stratosphere.
Returning for a limited time in 2021 is Barrel-Aged Ten FIDY Imperial Stout, a 12.5% ABV juggernaut and longtime seasonal favorite at Oskar Blues. Rich FIDY flavor is polished to smooth perfection by (at least) eight months’ stay in a barrel, which imparts flavors of vanilla, oak and bourbon. During maturation, the FIDY-plus-bourbon flavors mellow into a roasty, smooth, deeply complex brew.
“My favorite part of creating barrel aged beers is how creative you can get with them. It’s really exciting when a beer you have been thinking about and working on for eighteen months finally makes it into a can,” said Laurienti.
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