Boulevard Lunar Ale

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

Bottle. Pours a dark red brown color. The aroma is dried fruit and clove. Tastes similar to smell with some subtle spice. I really enjoy this beer for some reason.

I had this beer before I’d really developed my beer palate and was pretty turned off. In fact, I gave the majority of the six pack I bought to my moocher friend. I gave it a second chance only because it came in a mix pack I picked up in St. Louis. It pours a milk chocolate brown with little head. The Aroma is of yeast and dried fruit, as well as clove and banana. Taste not very complex, but sweet and fruity, yeasty, spicy and a bit nutty. I’m not sure I could drink many of these, but it’s better than I remember it being.

12 oz. Bottle. Redish Brown in color. Mostly diminishing off white head. Fruity aroma. Flavor is watery and fizzy. Slightly bitter finish. Nothing special about this one.

Slightly hazy red-brown w/a small, totally diminishing head. Aroma of raisins, toffee, banana and light roast. Banana, clove and slightly metallic initial flavor, followed by a sour, wheaty/grainy finish. A bit too much carbonation for my taste. Musty, glassy aftertaste

Bottle best by October 17, 2008. Pours cloudy amber with a small off white head. The aroma is easily identified as a German wheat style and this pleases me. Clove and banana are in the nose along with bark, caramel, and something just slightly soured. The flavor has less defined esters with more emphasis on mellow, semi-sweet malts and wooden hops. Generic barley flavor comes out in the flavor along with slightly floral hints. I think this is clean and made to style, just too mellow for my taste.
[July 19. 2009]
Man, this is not bad at all. The 42 score is not fair. Sure, it’s not the most flavorful and robust and nuanced dunkelweizen, but it’s clean, balanced, and quite drinkable. I always think it’s a treat to drink one of these because it’s rare to see an American brewer take on this style, let alone one that distributes to east TN. There are adequate esters in the way of banana and light spices, a bready body, and a woody finish. No problems here, just a nice drinking, clean, and balanced beer.

12 oz, bb 10/02/08. Hazy, strong iced tea color with a three-finger head that tries to last. Aroma is clove, caramel, and spicy banana; also slight iron, leaf, and wood. Flavor is light caramel, balanced with spicy yeast and wheat: banana, clove, and bubblegum. Also some slight toasted walnut and dried wood. Light-medium body is watery, tingly with carbonation, and almost astringently dry.

Bottle: Amber colored pour with a small head. Sweet, malty, spicy nose with a sweet, nutty, slight spicy finish. I really liked this.

bottle-pours an off white ring and cloudy amber color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel, spice. Taste is a bit thin, sweet medium malt-caramel, spice. Thanks to decaturstevo for picking this out.