Boulevard Seeyoulator Doppelbock

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

Great brew. Enough as been said about all the elements of this beer. Personally I enjoyed this beer about as much as any I ever have. It is a clean, well finishing brew.

Pours brown. Sweet malts, banana, yeasty, noble floral hops, hints of spice from the cedar. Pretty good, could use more time with the cedar to impart those almost fruity cinnamon flavors, but still enjoyable.

Amber/brown pour. Yeast, banana, gum and spicy woody notes in the nose. Flavor is sweet and yeasty. Some banana is evident and the cedar aging offers an interesting woody/spicy tone. Good beer.

750ml bottle. Pours a murky tea-like amber with a pillowy white head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is sweet woody malts (I actually smell some cedar) with some floral notes.

The flavor is very sweet caramel malts and molasses, wood notes with some noticeable plasticky alcohol in the finish. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with sharp carbonation.

Overall, too unbalanced on the sweet side for me. The cedar is interesting, but I get some other unique notes in the flavor that I can’t quite identify, but am not digging.

750 ml corked and caged bottle purchased at Lukas in Kansas City, Missouri shared with my friend Brent. Batch 2-2009 8/10 stamped on the label. Pour is a mostly clear copper orange with a nicely formed two inch off white head. Aroma is the wood initially, bright and fresh cedar, followed behind that by softy subtle caramel sweetness and some resin grain. Some light straw grassiness is present. Taste is the resin cedar wood grain up front, followed closely by caramel and orange fruit sweetness, though its not a bright sweetness, muted as in the nose. The grass and straw finish out the taste with more of the drying tannic wood. Palate is medium to thin and has a high level of carbonation which put the flavors a bit off balance. A touch of alcohol present in the back. This was an interesting beer though I thought a bit too much of the wood came through for my taste.

Ruby orange, blood orange aroma and cedar. Cedar and orange (theme?) gets stronger in the sip. I like the twist.

bottle at Tampa xmas gathering. Another nice attempt at using cedar in beer. pours copper, off-white head. aroma, malty, grainy, dark fruits, hints of spiced wood from the cedar. flavor, dark fruits, mild grassy hops, hints of wood, and spiced mouthfeel. Cedar adds a nice touch but remained very hidden and that is not nearly as spicy as what we have been used with cedar aging beers here in Tampa.

750ml corked and caged. We get Boulevard in WA, but this had to be traded for via scrizzz...thanks Click. Sweet wheat, golden raisins with some faint cedar and a touch of yeasty bubblegum. The cedar does fade pretty quickly. Caramel wheat, banana, sweet maltiness, prickly carb, with some well played bittering on the end that has presence of grass and some sweet cedar. Another well crafted Boulevard beer...thanks Clint.