Boulevard Double Wide IPA

Brewed by Boulevard Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Kansas City, Missouri USA

750ml bottle. Murky brown color with an awesome off-white head. Big West Coast hop aroma. Despite the big head, it has somewhat mild carbonation. Very complex, with the big malt tones evened out by the solid hop bill. Some toffee and bitter piny nuances. Quite an excellent beer, with just a touch more carbonation wouldn’t be far off from a nice Belgian IIPA. An awesome example of the style.

BATCH#: D8078 Pours a beautiful golden brown with amber highlights. Medium pour produces a huge head of fairly dense, light tan foam. Retention is excellent. Lacing is fairly sticky. Smell is of big floral hops. Hints of pine and citrus, mostly grapefruit. Definitely some sweet malt presence coming through, as well. Caramely biscuit notes. Tropical notes of pineapple and oranges. A touch of mango. Big caramel malt base is offset by big hops presence. Nice caramel and brown sugar notes mixed with pineapple and grapefruit. Hints of pine. The bitterness of the hops are fairly subdued, here. They are balanced out by the sweetness of the malt profile. Still a little too upfront for my tastes, but the balance is close. Mouthfeel is somewhat murky. I associate IPA’s with being towards the crisp and clean side, generally. This one starts crisp and by the time you swallow, it has become creamy. Somewhat odd body for a DIPA. This is an example of a big DIPA that is verging on a nice balance, but remains a tad bit too hop forward for me to enjoy it frequently.

botlle courtesy of mreusch, thanks man! pours a very nice, hazy, very deep ornage with lots of red hints. head is a very creamy, dense off white with very nice retention. aroma is unique due to the hops used. a musty, earthy hop aroma presents itself very strongly. a nice sweet yeast balances out the nose nicely. taste is very interesting and pleasing. notes of sour, unripe peaches, sweetbread, a tiny peek of vanilla. flavor is a true hop wallop, nut with very different hops than traditionally used, nice call boulevard! taste has a massive amount of bitterness, but it is only in the front and middle, the back of the palate is as clean as can be! aftertaste has some bitter citrusy oils lingering, mixed with just enough sweet malt to make it a realy, really enjoyable quaff!

As nice an IPA as I have ever seen. Medium brown in color and cloudy with a big fluffy two finger tan head. Sticky and thick lacing. A nice aroma seems to show no Cascade hops. Instead, it is sweet fruit and caramel. Flavor is, again, sweet fruit and caramel. Not a hint of bite in the hops but very pleasant and smooth. I wondered why the beautiful bottle and higher price. Now I know. This was a top tier IPA.

Cloudy copper with off-white head. Frothy with nice lacing. Grass, grapefruit, pine, caramel malt...fresh aroma. Grapefruit, grass, mild malt caramel, mild alcohol flavours. Full body, syrupy, and lasting bitterness.

750 ml. Giant, frothy, off-white head, mostly diminishing. Body is hazy, deep amber body. The aroma is malty with notes of toasted grain, cookie, caramel. Hints of resin and grapefruit. the flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, moderately acidic and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly sweet, moderately bitter, dry. The bitterness and alcohol lingers. Medium to full body with a sticky texture and lively carbonation. Balance tilted toward malts. Reminds me a little of Alpha King though not as complex nor with the separation of hops and malts in the aroma and flavor.

Bottle. Cloudy amber pour with a huge beige head. Earthy hop aroma with a bit of bready malt. Sweet malt flavor followed by piney hops and a bittersweet finish.

Bottle from the Whole Foods on Lamar. Soft, stale fruit aroma. Great fruit hops flavor. Dry. Pretty unique.