Boulevard Bobs 47 Oktoberfest

Brewed by Boulevard Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Kansas City, Missouri USA

scent of malts and raisens.. pours a fairly dark golden brown w/ lots of carbonation and a small thick white head. palate is strongly carbonated and thinner than I like.. The flavor is of a different kind of hopps than I’m used to and .. overall not a bad beer but a little lacking. Thanks out to Heemer for his generous contributions of all the oulevar’s I’ve tried.

My thanks go to Indra for suppling this one from my wants list. This looks and smells wonderful. The pour produces an deep clear golden brew iwth a tight white head. Malt aroma is just right, not overpowering, but you don’t have to coax it either. Nice acid bite and the hops aren’t overpowering. This goes down smooth and refreshing with enough malt in the flavor to let you know this isn’t some weak amber ale. Good medium body that balances everything out nicely. Worth seeking out.

Munich-style lager, eh? Right… This stuff is too dark to be helles and too light to be dunkel. Colorwise, it’s more of a Vienna than anything—amber with a white foamy head. Nose is lightly hoppy with notes of honey and raisin. A bit thin on the palate but with gentle carbonation so it doesn’t come across as fizzy. Like the aroma, its flavor is lightly hoppy with a pleasant sweetness in the finish. There’s not much to this stuff but I’ll be damned if it’s not refreshing and satisfying regardless.

Pours a clear red/amber color. Small white head. Aroma of creamy malt, and citrus hops. Flavor ois full of malts and a little bitter. Nice smooth palate, very nice brew. Thanks to Heemer for this one!

Aroma was of alcohol and slightly musty. Flavor was yeasty and slightly sweet maltiness. Orange-red in color... not much head. Pretty good beer... refreshing.

Clear and bright burntish orange color, thin sticky yellowed head, minimal spotty lacing. Aroma is toffeeish, nutty, caramel dipped toasted edging; warming, clean, and soft with an overall sweet malt tone. Quite nice actually. Taste is malty smooth, akin to becoming dopplebock-like but keeps a slight toastier edge and slight herbal hop backing to it. Mostly sweet with a light mixure of bready malts and caramel smoothness, lifting into some retracting toffee butter and nuts. Finish lends a bit of hoppy herbal grassy atop a slight roasty/toasty chewy malt. Feel is silky smooth and malty thick, nearly full and buttery, not too cloying in sweetness but definately has a hangin’ around-sticky thing to its character and body. A pleasant surprise as it slides right down. This is a keeper by the folks at Boulevard. Drinkability high and easy going. And at 5% this is a super sessionable brew to behold. Too bad its a seasonal. Astonishly good stuff!

Dark amber color with no head. Malty aroma with a strong apple presence. The fruit fades away in the taste and leaves a dry maltiness. Not too bad, but I don’t think it’s quite as good as it’s listed.

Bronze color, not too much head. Malty nose. Sweet, hoppy flavor. The hops are more pronounced in the finish and stay with you. I love Boulevard beers, so it pains me to ask why this beer is ranked in the 89th percentile. I haven’t had the beer for a couple years but decided to buy a six-pack after this score. It is nice and very good for a lager, but this type of beer isn’t my favorite. 6/3/7/3/14 RE-RATE I got one of the first six packs in town of the 2007 version. The more I drink, the more I am reminded that this type of beer is subtle and may not scream out to you, but is nice just the same. Toasty, malt driven aroma, with some subtle earthy hops. Taste is malty with a melanoidin-rich and toasty flavor. Hops take a back seat to the malt, but do add a bit of nice flavor as well as the requisite bitterness that makes the beer very drinkable. I think I was a little harsh on this beer at first, but it had a hard time sticking out against all the IPA’s, Imperial Stout’s, and the like. Time has given me an appreciation of the more elegant, subtle beers.