Boulevard Bobs 47 Oktoberfest

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

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.

Orange/Red Coloring. White Ring. Grainy Aroma...Dry and Hoppy Taste...Overall Not Too Bad... Seems Fairly NOT Outstanding to me, Given the Rates on it...

Still and silent burnt copper beer with a thin head. The aroma is grape-like and fruity. Flavor is bitterand edgy, almost appley? Got a different character.

Clear amber body with a slight reddish hue. Off-white frothy head that dissipates. Pretty nice and slightly cherry-like malty aroma. Sweet and semi-interesting taste with slight bitterness and a winey hint. It isn’t cloying, but it does seem like the sweetness is covering something up. Its still pretty good though.

Pours a nice clear copper with a small white head. Aroma is toasty malt and a nice bready scent. Flavor is very hoppy for a lager. Alomg with the hops is the big malty flavor you get in the nose. Very drinkable and smooth.