Oskar Blues Gubna:
Howdy all and welcome to a beer review that not only reviews a beer but touches on one of the greatest comedies of all time.  Yes, today we are going to focus on a beer that has a quote from one of my all time favorite movies on the side of its can and that gives this beer damn near carte blanche on how it came out.  So to get things started off, the movie is “Blazing Saddles” which, in my mind, has two distinctions that no other film may have together: 1. It can NEVER be remade due to it’s content and 2. It’s the funniest movie from start to finish that has ever been put to celluloid. To expand on these points know these opinions from me: one of the movies co-writers was Richard Pryor who helped fill this movie with TONS of racial stereotypes and language that only a Jewish director could get away with making and secondly this movie never drags, most modern comedies tend to drag towards the end but “Blazing Saddles” has some of its most iconic moments in the last act and it ends on the high note (one exception maybe the “Naked Gun” films but that is a stretch there).  So anyway, taking that absolute love and devotion to that movie and making a beer with ties to it is almost a gimmie in my book. Oskar Blues Gubna is an Imperial IPA that not only stands up to the taste test of being a canned beer (like all their beers) but gives one something to giggle about as they drink.  The beer pours a nice hazy amber color with an orange hue along with a brilliantly white head of foam that settles down to a nice thick film and leaves heavy lacing and a candied citrus nose.  The initial taste of the beer is a malty citrus taste that blooms into a full-on heavy grapefruit on the mid tongue with a back end of slight skunk and a touch of mellow cream.  The after taste is an odd combo of semi-sweetness and dry flavor similar to a really good white wine but it mellows to a slightly sour taste after a while of non-continual sipping.  So like most other Oskar Blues beers this beer is way to complex for what a canned beer should be and that’s a good thing- trust me when I say that.  This beer will only have two people to it: haters and lovers and given the fact that the majority of the beer drinking population out there doesn’t appreciate a good hoppy beer when they have one only goes to show that there is that much more for the rest of us.  To all hop heads out there, Harrumph! (if you don’t get that you can get the hell out here right now.)