Boulevard Harvest Dance Wheat Wine

Brewed by Boulevard Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Kansas City, Missouri USA

Pours dark, hazy straw color with a huge white head. Aroma is fruity, yeast, some wood, and a bit of bubblegum. Flavor is sweet, citrusy, with some tart wheaty notes, a bit of spice, and a lingering finish

Orange color with a large head. Strong orange aroma. Candi sugar and some spicing. Light wheat flavor. Very sweet grains. A bit of yeast-induced spiciness. Quite perfumy and fruity. An interesting take on Wheat Wine.

Pair of pliers to get the cork out. Tons of carbonation with the pour. Heavy alcohol taste greets the palate. Settles into fairly sweet and oaky beer. Light in body. Very nice.

750ml bottle. Slightly hazy orange-amber with a huge, foamy head. Aroma of clovey/banana yeast, honeylike malts and citrus hops. The spicy-clove yeast dominates’and I couldn’t taste much of the oak aging. Chewy and sugary.

Pours a cloudy, golden color with a white frothy head. Nice patterning. Hint of cotton candy with some great spicy tones and a complex mild bite. Nice semi-thickness on the palate with a little burn on the end. It has a wonderful long finish. I really liked this one.

I have had this beer several times and in various incarnations, but this is my initial rating. I have noticed the current bottle run is more highly carbonated than the test batches and although this took me off guard with the first pour, it makes the beer very light and lively. This is a 9.1% beer that drinks a lot lighter. I love the subtlety of the beer, it comes across as very elegant. The aroma is light, mildly citrusy and bursting with a subtle, but evident fruitiness. The faint wood, spiciness & fruitiness of the yeast and the clean wheat all combine for an amazing taste that is quite complex. As the beer warms, the alcohol is evident, but not overwhelming. At colder temperatures, this is a beer that I think would appeal to most beer drinkers. I have finally found a wheat wine that I truly enjoy and I imagine that I have found a new favorite in the regular Smokestack lineup. I’m not sure that time will improve this beer, it will certainly change it and I’m sure it will taste very good, but this is a beer that is being released with each component of the beer beautifully balanced. Well done Boulevard!

Cool of allendodd to send this. Thanks a bunch guy. Pours orange copper with a three finger off-white head. The aroma is very piney. Body is towards full, with an incredibly creamy head. The flavor is incredibly evergreen, astringently so, and it’s followed by pretty bready malt. Wheat? I dunno. The head goes clingy. Wow. It finishes towards malty and floral. Heck of a good ale. Get it if you can.

Deep bronze and orange colored body with a huge rocky off white head. The nose was strong with sweet orange and fresh bread dough. There was also leather, dandelions and musk. After the initial slap to the mouth drink, I got notes of raw bread dough, orange peels and some leather. The finish was salty with lots of black pepper spice and lingering citrus. A little harsh to drink, I think this might need some age to mellow.