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Boulevard Double Wide IPA

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bottled
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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
3893.8/5.03.78/5.0Special8.5%83.3Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Double-Wide I.P.A. uses Columbus and Magnum hops for both bittering and aroma with Chinook hops added in the whirlpool. It is dry hopped with generous amounts of Cascade, Bravo, Centennial, and Chinook hops. The resulting beer has a hop forward aroma, redolent of peach and apricot. The assertive flavor bursts with the citrus qualities of blood orange and lemon with a slight caramel malt backbone to balance the intense hop flavor. There is little restraint in the flavor of this beer; it is certainly not for the pedestrian palate.
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 JB175 (1664), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Oct 18, 2008  
Bottle from BMan1113VR - thanks! Big malty-sweet aroma with lots of sugar, cereal, citrus, and floral hops packed in. Flavor is quite hoppy with a hefty dose of malt sweetness - citrus, earth, and floral hops dominate. Smooth finish. Good, but a tad underwhelming and overly sweet for a DIPA.


 KingpinIPA (842), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 18, 2008  
Thanks to brewblackhole. Amber color. Smell of hops, citrus, grass, pepper, citrus peal, malt and pine. Taste of hops, citrus, grass, citrus peal, malt, caramel, pine and spicy pepper.


 Schultsc (483), Henderson, Nevada, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/517/20
Oct 18, 2008  
Slightly hazy dark red-amber-orange with a puffy light tan head. Thick citrus aromas with a unique dark sweet stonefruit edge. Mild pine needles and resin is here as well and a very slight sulfery fermentation note. Sharp, scalpel-like bitterness cuts a swathe across the tongue and a dry malt fullness rolls in behind it. Flavors of dark yellow fruits, along with peach and apricot, medium-dark malt, and alcohol. It is mostly dry but does give a slight fruity sweetness perception. The body is a good example of fruity hops and soft malt sweetness alongside a forward alcohol character and a warm finish. This might be more aptly categorized a a double IPA


 Botnik (109), Carrollton, Texas, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/104/515/20
Oct 17, 2008  
This shows that Boulevard has great potential. Everything seemed right for a strong IPA. It didn’t quite knock my socks off. Maybe it was the tacky label.


 Swalden28 (1468), McKinney, Texas, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Oct 15, 2008  
Batch D8107. Pours a nice cloudy light brown with nice head. Aroma is hoppy with malt. Flavor of malt, hop’s, with nice bitter, strong flavor, nice decient bitter at the end. Has medium body and high carbonation. Overall, good stuff....


 beergod (102), Austin, Texas, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/518/20
Oct 13, 2008  
This Dbl IPa pours a nice amber with a nice attractive head. The Nose is present ,and in your face. taste is incredible. Think nice spicy, herbal hops, a bit grassy,with a nice malt backbone. Full bodied and with a nice dry finish. Impressive!


Blaketj80 (78), Oklahoma, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/105/55/104/511/20
Oct 8, 2008  
Looks great coming out of the bottle. Pours with a nice white head. It seems a bit over-carbonated. Tastes of prunes, but has decent alcohol balance. Not sweet, but gravity definitely smoothes the hops.


 Goodgrief (1152), Middletown, Delaware, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/103/515/20
Oct 8, 2008  
Beer pours a beautiful orange amber color with fantastic head and lacing that looked almost computer animated silk bubble screen down the glass. Aroma of centennial hops. Light caramel malts, little sweetness and huge hop bitterness on the back end. Maybe a little thin. I don’t know, maybe it was just my mood, but it didn’t wow me even though the beer had no obvious flaws.



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