Old Chub 6.9% or 8%?

@Hoggo not an error, a change of recipe for the nitro cans. Some bars had issues serving 16oz x 8%. How many pints of 8% are served these days? From the bars I have been going to, 11-12oz max, and less at some. Cheers!

edit, spelling

 

My 7/17 can of Nitro is still 8.0%. Edit: ^^^ good information

 

I don't drink beer for the abv % but this is very disappointing if true. Old Chub is an amazing scotch ale as is.

I hope this is a temporary change.

 

Confirmation is here:

http://en.paperblog.com/oskar-blues...onally-ensures-full-pint-pours-69-abv-977376/

not my website. credit to paperblog.com

 

My Nitro and regular cans said 8% on them.

 

They only changed it for the Nitro version. If a beer losing 1.1% ABV is a big deal for someone, they might have a bigger issue to worry about. The new version tastes exactly the same anyways.

 

I've had several 4 packs and they were all 8%. Tasty stuff, hope they didn't change it.

 

@LiquidCucumber but they did!

 

A 1% change in alcohol means a change in ingredients, which means a change in flavor, as minor as that change may be. There's not as much sugar in there for some reason. If my favorite beer changed recipes I'd be slightly worried about the outcome as well and not because I'm an alcoholic and need more booze but because it is now different.

 

@joe1510 from a brewing perspective, likely the same ingredients, just a little less of them all. Same yeast, mash temps, proportionate ibus and terminal gravity would yield very similar beer.

 

In Boulder Co they are 8%.

 

Cans still say 8% in Albuquerque! Yay for that, I was about to be super dissapointed!! Nitro cans and regular

 

That's my point. Less of the same thing isn't the same thing.

 

pretty sure the nitro cans are 8 here in PA also

 

from the article:

"after years of experimenting with putting fresh draft beers on nitro, Oskar Blues Brewery decided to take the next step and insert the robustly complex OLD CHUB into a Nitro' d CAN. Both internal and taproom trials were part of the new formulation process, and the 6.9% version measured up in taste to the 8% version while many liked the ability to have more than one"

@Hoggo what is your can date?

 

So the Nitro cans were originally 8% but newer batches are now 6.9%? I don't really care about the change in abv, but I could've sworn the the 4 pack I picked up in July said 8%. They have not been 6.9% since the nitro cans were originally released, right?

 

@Hoggo that makes senseof it, you have the freshest batch of it. It's not some sort of false information. @DrStiffington correct, originally 8.0, now 6.9