Boulevard Double Wide IPA

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

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.

bottle from citywide. pours copper with a big frothy beige head. Great head retention.l aroma of caramel, booze, mellon, citrusy hops. flavor is toffee, booze, and bread. medium body. a bit malt heavy. batch 09191 consumed 10/24/09. not sure when this was brewed, but it didn’t have as much hop character as i would have liked. pretty good though.

Picked up some Boulevard beers while visiting the Tulsa, OK area. This pours a deep amber color with a thick head which yields lots of scattered spots of lacing. The aroma is malty with resin and pine. Plenty of malts in the flavor with some cookie dough and piney hops with a splash of citrus. Soft and slick backing making this relatively easy drinking. A tad on the malty side but the hops and malts mix well and as the case with the Single Wide there are enough bitter hops to satisfy the hop crave. Good beer.

From a 750 ml corked and caged bottle, this bottle opened with a satisfying "pop" like a bottle of champagne. A cloud of steam rose from the bottle like Aladdin’s Lamp and I expected a genie to appear. No genie, so into the glass it went where it was a dark orange with a very creamy fat light tan head the lasted a very long time and left lacing rings like Elmer’s Glue as it slowly settled. The nose was very rich, with ripe tropical fruit, with an aroma of citrus, pine, and flowers. Rich, smooth and malty mouthfeel that slides smoothly over the tongue. The favor is a good blend of malts and hops with a unusually pleasant bitterness that continues on into the finish. A simply superb beer.

750ml caged & corked bottle (Batch 09191) served in a tulip. Hazy, burnt orange pour with a thick head of creamy beige foam that produced some excellent rings of lace. The aroma was loaded with fresh tropical fruit, peach, mango, grapefruit, along with some rich caramel. The flavor had bitter grapefruit rind, peach, tropical fruit, and also fresh pine. Just enough caramel to smooth things out. The hop profile was pretty awesome. Medium to full-bodied mouthfeel. Lightly carbonated. Delicious!