Boulevard Smokestack Series - Saison Brett

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

Serve in Tulip

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2011 Vintage. Pours golden straw yellow with a large fluffy white head. Smells hoppy, earthy, funky, with a solid wheat malt backbone. Taste is malty sweetness, with a strong hoppy dryness with a nice funkiness underneath that will improve with age. Medium-bodied with a smooth texture and decent mouth-carbonation, Boulevard Saison-Brett (2011) finishes with some funk dryness.

750 ml bottle that was corked and caged, poured a cloudy orange with a frothy head. Aromas of funk, tart, grass, with lemon zest, and a hint of apple. Flavor funky, tart apples, with a touch of pepper spiciness, with a dry after finish.

750 ml caged and corked bottle, 2011 vintage, bottle #21339, Batch 2011-2, best by date of 03-2013. Served in a tulip glass, the beer pours a hazy gold color with about an inch and a half frothy off-white head. Head retention and lacing are both pretty good. Aroma is a bit spicy, the brew smells like peppery spice, bready malt, citrus peel, apricots, earthy yeast and brett. The brew tastes like bready malt, citrus peel, herbs/flowers, earthy hops, hay, brett and a bit of mint. Mouthfeel/body is light/medium, and it’s well carbonated. I think this is a good brew, I’d pick this up again in the future.

Sampled a the Bayou’s Wild and Sour ale tasting. This is one of my favorite Saisons made. The addition of brettanomyces really adds another level to this beer. The hops were earthy and spicy. A really great Wild Saison.

Dry floral hoppy-citrus-peel aroma. Pours a chalky, hazey golden with a significan sudsy white head. Starts lightly sweet with light spiced notes then gets a bit dry with hoppy citrusy notes and a nice earthy brett character. Reminiscent of Orval to me...would love to try it barrel-aged and/or with even more funkiness. A fantastic beer.

GABF 2011. Slightly hazy bright gold, light bubbly head. Smells of lemon zest, funky Asian spices, oak barrel Brett yeast. Taste was light and crisp with minimal sourness, lemon zest, Brett funk, and light golden malt. Not really a fan.

Tasted in July 2011 from a 750mL bottle at Lush Roscoe, best before 03/2013. Pours hazy pale gold with a very thick, rocky white head that slowly recedes to rocky lace, leaving sticky residue along the inside of the glass. The nose is very dry, funky brett and fruity peach, apricot, spices, and lightly bitter hops. The flavor is very dry and bretty with apricot, peach, earth, dust, spices, and a hint of hay malt with some bitterness. The body is medium with lively carbonation and a long, funky brett, and spicy finish.

Bottle, pours a bright golden colour, the smell is very spicy and the taste good and full of life the body is a little thin. The brett is there but very thin at the back

Pours gold into a tulip. Bright white head with excellent retention craters and recedes leaving spider lacing. Sweet marshmallow, band aid and funk aromas. Sweet band aids and funk from front to back turning slightly sour in the lasting finish...should’ve aged it a bit more...

Bottle, from trade. Pours a light honey orange body with a huge, cloudy head. Aroma is citrus, orange peel, hay, bretty sour tones. Hints of Belgian ale yeast and molasses. Taste is complex and nuanced: dry, yeasty peppery tones, hints of alcohol, floral notes and citrus. Smooth and very drinkable despite the high ABV. The brett comes through very subtly throughout the aftertaste, but only after a while. Very dry and still mellow mouthfeel. A pleasant saison indeed, but hardly the world’s finest IMO. Then again, saison really isn’t my favorite style. I know it’s all the rage at the moment, but it just hasn’t gotten to me yet.