Boulevard Bobs 47 Oktoberfest

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

12oz twist off bottle. Pours a clear copper amber color with a 1 finger white head. Nose is kind of faint, but I am getting sweet malt, some nuttiness, and light spice...cinnamon. Body is light with lively carbonation. Flavor is less malty then I was expecting and presence of hops and graininess that I didn’t get really on the nose. I think that when I bought this I was expecting a Marzen style beer. Now that I am entering my rating I see that it is a Vienna. I get that more in the taste, but this one is a little ’between’ styles imho. I also get kind of a strange or out of place sour note as well.

12oz bottle. Orange-tan color with a quickly dissipating head. Sweet orange and amber malt aroma. Medium bodied as per style. Malt centered taste with some subdued soapy noble hops. Nutty, with some mild pumpkin spice tastes as well. A touch thinner than most Oktoberfests perhaps, but lots of flavor. Classic taste of Fall.

Vibrant orange-tinged amber with lively carbonation feeding a suitable head. Warm malt and fruits aroma with a soupcon of nut character and light grain, but mostly just clean. Flavor is mildly nutty with seemingly high amounts of tannins. Vienna and Munich accented malts with a spicy piquant autumnal quality. Slightly off-putting tannic grainy sour-bitter finish. Uneven.

I stopped in at my favorite local liquor store to see what I could find and a young lady handed me a glass of this when I walked in the door. Not too bad. Amber with a thin head. Very watery for what I thought was going to be a nice spicy seasonal. Nothing to write home about. I can’t wait for winter when the real brews come out.

Malty, nutty, sweet, a bit of caramel and some well-balance bitterness. This is a true KC tradition and a beer not to be missed. There’s a reason it gets so hard to find. Complex, but so familiar. We salute you, Bob!

I like the aroma, very spicy. Nothing too remarkable about the rest though.

Light amber color with thin head and thinnish body. Something sweet, like molasses, aroma. Tasted too sweet for an Oktoberfest. Malts overpower hop character. There are too many great Oktoberfests out there to spend too much time on this one.

One of only two available in the store (wife enjoyed the other one when I wasn’t looking). Copper amber pour into thick foamy head that dissipates quickly info melting lacing as carbonated bubbles rise from the bottom of the glass. Aroma of toasted malt, nuts, yeasty sweet bread and citrusy hops. Initial flavor of yeasty wheat slowly fading into a piney hop finish. This one is probably outlived it’s shelf life and would require another for a fair rating.