Boulevard Lunar Ale

Formerly brewed at Boulevard Brewing Company
Style: Dunkelweizen
Kansas City, Missouri USA

Serve in Stein, Weizen

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Date: 05/05/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Yankee Go Home!

cloudy rusty brown, wispy head, drops of lace, chocolate aroma with sweet fruity esters and light spicyness, sweet chocolate and caramel flavor, fruity sweetness, nice balancing bitterness, touch of yeasty spicyness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4

(12oz bottle, courtesy of mar) Pours a clear amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of nuts, toffee, roasted malt, and toasted grain. Flavor of hops (grass), nuts, roasted malt, light cocoa, caramel, and toasted grain.

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.

Bottle from Lithy, thanks! Orange brown color, hazy. Malt and a hint of nutmeg in the aroma. Malty sweetish flavor with pear and nutmeg. Not unpleasant, but not outstanding.

Bottle from D&J Liquor of St. Louis, MO. Dark amber color with a decent beige head that went down fast. Smells a bit like old style linoleum paste. Medium body with very mild carbonation. The instant impression is restrained banana, with some dark grainy malt sweetness. It has a decent amount of citrus like bitter. Finishes like it ought. For me it’s refreshing.

Bottle… Pours hazy amber with a small, fizzy, white head that’s gone in a flash. The nose is defined by dark cereal grains, spice, touches of overripe banana and chocolate with a suggestion of caramel. Medium-bodied with bristly carbonation. A smidge of chocolate with restrained essences of overripe banana and spice. Sweet up front with light acidity, but bittered well enough with minerally hops to provide near-perfect balance. Sweet, grainy, chocolaty finish.Bottle provided by headbanger!

Bottle shared with shigadeyo. Poured a chazy copper color with an average off-white fizzy head that was mostly lasting and produced fair lacing. Good banana and spice aroma. Light to medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Good sweet flavor with an average sweet finish of short duration. Soft drinkable brew.

Pours a hazy copper amber with a wispy-lacing light tan head. Aroma of sweet dark malted wheat and bready, citrusy, clove German yeast with a hint of bananas. Body starts a little thin for the style with a light malty wheaty sweetness and some authentic doughy yeast. A decent dunkelweizen.

Aroma is perfume hops with alcohol and the fruity smell I have come to associate with Boulevard beers (its like a mix of banana, raspberry or cassis and some other floral hops). Pour yields a hazy brown sugar body with a small fizzy off-white heead that goes away fully, but leaves decent lacing. Taste is bitter and salty out back with a yeasty aftertaste. Watery mouthfeel and lively carbonation round out this pleasant beer.

12oz bottle. Dark burgundy plum colored body, filtered and clear but dark. The nose is ashy cashew and walnut malts, and the flavor is weak-bodied but fresh walnut and toasted bread with small amounts of maple. A decent brown ale or dunkel, but not really anything great. That’s to be expected from Boulevard’s attempt at an agreeable beer.