Boulevard Lunar Ale

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

Pours brown, with a small offwhite head. Nose is caramel. Taste is sweetish, with notes of spice, nut, malt and caramel. This grew on me as the beer progressed. Nice stuff.

Bottle courtesy of superdave. Pours a dark amber, almost plum, color with a fleeting tan head. Smells of caramel and assorted spices. Tastes similar to a Belgian dubbel with a side of steamed carrots. Odd.

Bottle from bro/sis-in-law back from Kansas. Pours muddy amber small tan head. Fruity aroma, weak banana taste with some grainy and yeasty flavours throughout but a little watery overall. Nothing special but pretty good beer.

bottle from superdave70’s treasure chest... hazy dark mahogany/ruby brown with no head to write of. aroma is of dusty bready yeast, tart fresh fruit/plums perhaps, malt and caramel. the flavor is a rather boring mix of the same... yeast, caramel, red apples, flowers and muddied spices/nutmeg maybe. it is medium bodied and a bit tart with crisp carbonation. 5/3/5/3/12/2.8

Original review date 3/11/2009... BBD 1/2/2009; 12 oz. was first beer on brew day this past Sunday, so you know I was looking forward to this one. Into a Cab glass, because...well, why the hell not? This bottle-conditioned deal pours a very turbid bourbon/copper/root beer-color. Head is about 2/3 finger but doesn’t make a day trip out of it. Retains good carbonation and sparse lacing. Definitely has some good wheat/yeast electricity along with mildly clammy sarsparilla sweetness. A little honey in there too? Hop presence is slightly piney and somewhat Germanic. This reminds me of a mild dunkel, but a little more carbonated. It’s interesting...the Saaz emerges more in taste as does a nice wheaty caramel, almost Munich malt profile...it’s quite austere, though. Nicely constructed...not uneven at all. With the weight of a hefeweizen yet the grain profile of a dunkel we have some smooth drinking right here. There’s a sweetness on the palate but the Saaz-ish hops and carbonation keep it light with a spring in its step. I could session this up during the summertime without fail...early spring works too. Solid stuff.

(bottle) Cloudy, amber color. Small, off-white head. Spare lacing. Wheaty aroma and flavor. Light, sweet finish. Short duration, and average carbonation.

(bottle from Weber St Liqour in Colorado Springs). Pours a cloudy, dark copper color. Small off white head. Sweaty yeast aroma. Light malt flavor. Avg duration. Astringent finish. Thin texture. Soft carbonation.

Pours a hazed copper. This isn’t as good to style as the Zon was for witbiers, but this is still a decent beer. There’s a light note of citrus a very slight bubblegum ester, but nothing’s big enough to be make this a stellar example.