Boulevard Dry Stout

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

I try not to fall victim to the "hey, we’re making stout now" craze that seems to sweep up the more ’corporate’ of the micro brews. I wasn’t going to try this one either but at 4.95 a sixer........nuff said. Different lable, same problem. Have any of these folks ever tried a stout, a real stout full of creamy goodness? At best we have a fairly drinkable porter. It is not opaque, it is black like a black lager or ale. Light colored head of large bubbles that dissapear way to quickly. Initial taste is lightly sweet chocolate that dissolves quickly into very very faint coffee and smoke. You are left with a very dry palate and a tounge that is still stinging from the carbonation. Very drinkable, not bad as simply a descent beer, but not a stout. Stout should go down like skim milk. With fine bubbles sticking to the side of your glass. You take the second swallow and you close your eyes and the angels begin to sing, you see your ancestors reaching out for you from a beige cloud. Arth Guinness is there, and he is making out with your great aunt Cloe...... UPDATE: Shook bottle and poured into pint glass. After the foaming and setling the carbo was way less overpowering. Much better beer this way. Great flavor! Head stayd with the beer all the way down. I would have another, in fact i think i will.

Pours total black with small white head. Nose of roasted coffee and chocolate, with some flowery hops coming through. Tastes of burnt chocolate and coffee. Mouthfeel was much too watery for a stout. Not a good representation of the style.

pours black with off white head.roasy olive nose.watery mouthfeel,roasty astrigent bitterness.Odd flavor and nose.weird.

12 oz. bottle, minimal aroma of malt and coffee, smokey charcoal flavor, not my favorite stout

Not overly impressed by this one. Very light aroma with moderate coffee malts and some lighty piney hops. Pours with a very creamy light brown head that goes away very quickly. Flavor is smoke and coffee and very dry the entire time. Mouthfeel is similarly dry and overly carbonated.

Bottle pours out mahogany with a nice khaki head. Restrained aroma of coffee and a hint of chocolate. Medium body is somewhat overcarbonated. Roasty bitterness with some chocolate, coffee and nuttiness in the taste. Mundane.

Pours a dark black brown color with a small tan head. Nose is roasted malt, coffee, and chocolate. Taste is roasted malt, smoke, chocolate, coffee, brown sugar. Finish is medium and mouthfeel is medium to thick. Drinkability is somewhat low. I like my dry stouts more refreshing.

Thanks to Vance for this one. Black body with a tall frothy tan head. Chocolate and coffee in the nose along with some sweet brown sugar. Flavor is sweet chocolaty, slightly roasted and quite smooth. Thin body but very fulfilling overall.