Boulevard Double Wide IPA

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

Sample at J Gumbos Aug 2008 Indy tasting - Aroma is sharp pine resin hops with caramel fighting for attention. Flavor is grapefruit, flowery hops and caramel malt all nicely balanced. Palate is tart and creamy. A great IPA.

25 oz bottle. Pours a nice deep copper body with a big craggy frothy off white head that had excellent retention. The nose is more sweet caramel malt than it is hoppy, and that’s not a good sign of an IPA to me. Lots of stale iced tea crystal malt, then lighter floral hops. There’s plenty of bitterness to stand up to the crystal malt up front, but it loses out on the back end. Finishes with a light resiny note and grainy crystal malt. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, fairly creamy, with moderate fizzy carbonation. Overall, this just wasn’t the kind of IPA that gets me going. I want hops and more hops, not hopped stale iced tea.

200th rating of this beer, 750ml from a local liquor store. Pours dark orange with a foamy tan head. Nice citrus nose that I got from the moment I popped the cork. Taste is very nice with lots of citrus and a lot of bite. This is great midwest IPA that lives up to West Coast Standards.

The pour reveals a cloudy amber color with a medium creamy offwhite head. Nice aroma of fruity and resinous hops. Good flavor of resinous, fruity hops, with toasted malt and bitterness in the end. The body is medium with a liquorous texture and gentle carbonation.

Corked and caged 750ml. Pours a slightly hazy amber with a one finger light tan head. Nose is floral and citrus hops and caramel malt. Taste is sweet upfront with apricots, caramel and ripe citrus with a nice resin aftertaste in the finish. Medium mouth feel. This is better than I thought it would be and the novelty of a cork and caged IPA is different. Nice and hoppy for a single IPA. Decent brew.

Amber color with a big head. Nice look. Citrus hops in the taste with medium bitterness. Nice smell of citrus, pine, down to earth feel. Good aftertaste.

Bottle from South Bay Drugs. Pours with a giant serving of white pillow of foaming while the ale is a muddy amber color. The aroma is a bready malt nose with a dosage of British styled hop variation. I taste a rye bready flavor as well as a honey oat or sweet wheat that really is different that I am accustomed too but again there is a English hop background that balances this beer out real smoothly .

Pours a tannish garnet with orange highlights, and an off-white head that lasts forever. Aroma is very citrusy and flowery, but not too extreme on the hops. A bit tropical, and doesn’t give much way to the maltiness of the flavor. The beer tastes pretty well balanced between the brown sugar and caramel malts, and the flowery tropical fruit-like hop flavor. Finishes slightly toasty with a bitter grapefruit flavor and a slight lingering caramel aftertaste. Mouthfeel is medium, fairly highly carbonated and creamy. Pretty good, and I admire the restrained IBUs.