Boulevard Nutcracker Ale

Brewed by Boulevard Brewing Company
Style: English Strong Ale
Kansas City, Missouri USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Pours a somewhat hazy darker amber with a medium sized beige head. Aroma is mostly spicy with some fruity impressions, being apple, orange, and berries. Some caramel notes as well. The taste is a very nice combination of the fruits and caramel malt. It isn’t to fruity as to render this undrinkable, but an almost perfect balance. I get a taste almost like a caramel apple. I also get a touch of sweet toffee underneath. Medium bodied with some softer carbonation. There is a bit of tartness at the end here as well. I don’t really get the impression that this is a Christmas beer, but thats ok. I enjoyed this.

Red-amber pour with a nice beige head. Aroma is spice and some fruit and caramel. Sweet, with enough bitterness to balance. Flavors follow through the aroma.

Tastes and smells spicy, fruity, woody. Maybe a little "boozy" -- at least more than I would have expected for a 6% beer. A lot of spice at first, with malt and hop flavor really coming through in the finish. There’s a lot going on here; but it’s all fairly well-balanced. One of those beers in which the first sip is quite a bit different from the last.

Golden amber pour. Medium bright head. Hop forward aroma. Taste is mostly hop spiciness with sweetness from the molasses with a hint of esther in the finish. ---Rated via iPhone

Hazy reddish brown with a good size tan head. Grapefruit and spice nose with some malt. Bitter and sweet with some spice on the initial sip. Sweet sticky finish.

A perennial winter seasonal. Amber color with a modest head. A malty sweet taste with a spicy finish.

12 oz. bottle served in a DFH signature glass. Best by 2/28/2012. A: Pours a light plum color with some mixes of brown also. The head is very large on the pour, about two inches in height, that sticks around for quite some time and leaves some sticky sheets of lace. S: Caramel malts, some dark fruit, light sweetness and yeasty spice all mix in the nose. Doesn’t really smell like the typical winter warmer. T: The toffee malts are the base for the taste, but the yeast really comes through giving it a little spice. Some clove and sweet fruits round it out. M: Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Slighty chewy texture. It just doesn’t seem to work with this style. O: This isn’t your typical winter warmer. I thought it was more of a weizenbock type beer than anything else. Not a bad beer, but nothing special by any means and don’t go in thinking you’re going to get a boozy and sweet winter warmer. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 01-18-2012

Bottle at home, from my Minneapolis Town Hall glass. Pours deep walnut brown, thin tan head, great lacing. Nose is spicy: cinnamon, clove, cardamom, peppercorn, fruitcake, syrup really delectable. Flavours are equally spicy, with pepper, cinnamon, vanilla, sarsaparilla, bark, fennel, and fruit.. A great seasonal brew!

1/19/2010 - The Boulevard Nut Cracker Ale is one of the many winter warmers shuffled into a rather broad category of malty, dark, flavorsome beers who go well with a pipe or a cookie, but without anything phenotypically special. This one is sweeter than most, boasting more malty and caramel sugars, but it also comes with more bitterness. Molasses forms much of the flavor here, but it’s thick drinking and borderlines somewhere between a beer and a dessert. I also suffered from the strange after effect of profound thirst. Still, the Nutcracker would do well as a more “extreme” beer in a bucket or cooler of winter brews for a party.

Bought Beer from Lukas Liquor in a Mix-A-Six. (2nd Beer of Night) BEST BY 02/15/11 (labeled on front of bottle) Appearance:Has an orange body and cloudy Smell: you can smell all hops, very nice Taste: Dry-Hopped, almost like a Pale Ale Mouthfeel: After sitting on my pallet for a while, has weight and an unique feel Drinkability: Is a classic ale to have with a meal and would suggest it to anyone wanting to venture out to a new Winter Warmer.