Proper Pour: Red Wine & Whiskey (2025)
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Special|
Score
7.55
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle. Aroma is chocolaty, woody, red wine, grape juice, toffee. Pours opaque purplish-dark brown with a thin beige head that settles into a ring fairly quickly. Taste is bittersweet with chocolaty, boozy, caramel-tinged flavors. The red wine barrel comes through a bit stronger than the whiskey, but they’re both very much there. Some oxidation and soy sauce notes that don’t distract too much.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Dark brown with a red hue when held up to the light with a wisp of a head. Aroma is complex with fruitcake, plum, hints of chocolate. Taste is also complex with fruitcake, plum, hints of chocolate with a slight sweet finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
At one time early in my ratings career I thought Boulevard to be my favorite brewery. Then I figured out there were many good quadrupels, my favorite style, being brewed just about everywhere. Struise, White Pony, Lost Abbey, Nogne O, de Molen, The Bruery, Ommegang doing some really great things, Boulevard slipped behind. Recently Boulevard has been hitting the mark with their Proper Pour imperial stouts in various barrels. Tonight I have their Double Barrel-Aged version to sample, a 12 oz bottle that I obtained fortunately in Ft. Worth a couple of months back. A globe glass arrayed, I make the pour. A dark brown body, almost black, followed by a simple ring of light tan foam around the glass. The nose is exquisite. Dark chocolate, a vinous quality, dark plums and baked bread. The taste is equally good or even better. Raspberries, chocolate, wine barrel, scorched bread, some booziness, plenty of malt and a decent little ending bitterness. Fine brew. Wish I had bought another or perhaps several. It is getting harder to find imperial stouts like this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home. Dark ruby brown pour and minimal head. Nose is big time barrel, red wine and bourbon. Tatses quite vinous, rich red grape, molasses, fig, dates, oaky bourbon and vanilla. Creamy mouthfeel. Hides abv well enough. Lovely sipper
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8