Longmont, CO & Brevard, NC – Oskar Blues’ spring seasonal, GUBNA Imperial IPA, rolls out the fifth inspired incarnation in March 2016, featuring THE MOST aromatic and heady hops of the 2015 crop, all of which were hand selected by Oskar Blues employees.
Each year, the Oskar Blues brew team headed by Tim Matthews, hosts simultaneous, hands-on, resinous hop selection panels by all employees at both the Colorado and North Carolina breweries to source the most potent, unique and mind-bending hop varietals of the season. The result is an always imposing, but continually reinvented brew.
This 2016 GUBNA Imperial IPA (10% ABV, 100 IBUs) is dry-hopped with prodigious amounts of hand selected Eldorado and Comet hops along with Idaho Experimental 007 hops from Jackson Farms. The brew boasts the same golden to light orange color with white foam and a clear to slight haze. Aromatic qualities include spicy orange zest, papaya, peach, pineapple, floral, pine/spruce and a mix of red berries and watermelon. The body is medium with a lightly viscous mouthfeel and intense bitterness, with orange and pine flavors and a chive-like alcohol heat and zesty hops to finish on the palate.
