Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad

Brewed by Boulevard Brewing Company
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Kansas City, Missouri USA

Serve in Trappist glass

Date: February 5, 2012 Mode: Bottle Source: Dennis Bros Description: Opaque brown with large head and lacing. Aroma is cherry, woody, and a nice sweetness that may be vanilla. Taste is consistent with aroma with dry alcohol finish. 2011 vintage, bottle 21399. Cracked this to celebrate the Giants Super Bowl win!!!

caged bottle from 2011 number 4145. Color is a foggy orange amber with a head that faded down to a light film. Aroma hit me with tart cherry but some booze, dark fruit and vanilla bourbon snuck through. its like sour mash but without the unpleasant finish thanks to the cherries. The taste give a light burn, more of the whiskey toffee tastes is in there. Sharp carbonation and some alcohol soaked cherries finish.

Pours dark auburn brown with small yellow fizz. Smells strongly of bourbon and vanilla and hints of cherries. Tastes strongly of sweet bourbon characters, vanilla and hints of toffee, and a subtle cherry flavor with almost no alcohol present at all. Full-bodied with a smooth, velvety texture and mild mouth-carbonation, Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad finishes with a nice lingering sweetness.

Bottle, 2011 vintage, 01/27/2012. Pours red chestnut, almost maroon, one finger head that quickly fades, splotchy haze on the surface. Nose carries tart cherries on the forefront, some lacto, plums, dark malts, caramel, noticeable booze. Taste again mildly tart, sweet and tangy (like BBQ?!), dark fruits- plums and raisins- dark bready malts, nice bourbon finish with big notes of caramel, vanilla. On the thinner side of medium in the mouth, but nice carbonation to back up the flavor, and rich aftertaste. Definitely the quad characteristics are muted if not altogether gone, but as a strong ale pretty tasty. Went well with pork.

Säuerlich malziger, eher weicher Beginn. Holznoten, brennend in der Nase. Später bitterschokoladig, hefig, süßlich. OK aber nichts übermäig Besonderes. 11/11/10/11/13/11

Bottle via Eric Anders, thanks and glad this one didn’t get stolen! 2011-2 bottle. Pours an orange to deep golden color with frothy head that dissipates rapidly. Aroma is a little funky with some sweet mixed in. No fruit picked up. Taste is much lighter than I was expecting. A little tartness at the front with the flavors soon going around in circles with finally a load of vanilla and chewing tobacco to round things out. A lighter mouthfeel than I would like but didn’t really taste like a true quad. Overall, doesn’t taste much like a quad but enjoyable and something I will have again with some age on it to see if anything changes with the flavor profile since this was a rather fresh bottle.

Tried a bottle from 2011, 2010 and 2009 side by side. Pours a cloudy dark copper color with small white head and dissipates quickly. Sweet vanilla, cherry and lots of warm bourbon on the nose. Very rich flavors full of bourbon, caramelized cane sugar, dark fruits. Thick mouth feel with a strong warming effect. This is best aged at three years. The strong bourbon and sugars begin to mellow down and wonderfully complex flavors begin to appear after aging. Put it in your cellar, if you can stand to actually wait.

Bomber. Pours a cloudy medium brown with copper highlights. Large frothy off white head that dissipated quickly. Aroma is ripe citrus and slight cherry. Taste is ever so slight cherry with vanilla and possibly toffe notes. Slight alcohol tow to this quad. Good Stuff!!