Irish Ale
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Spring|
Score
6.62
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Irish Ale, Boulevard’s early spring seasonal beer, is our Midwestern tribute to the legendary red ales of old Ireland. Our recipe combines six kinds of pale and roasted barley malts to provide a rich, toasty flavor and tawny reddish hue.
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tnkw01 (4059) reviewed Irish Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Amber-red in color with a three-finger head. Aroma is malty, caramel and toffee. Taste is also malty, caramel and toffee.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Irish Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Red brown with a medium sized beige head. Sweet, tangy and malty with dark fruit and caramel. Medium finish and body.
SaltyGrog (4618) reviewed Irish Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap @Kool Keg in Arlington. Clear amber, frothy. Veggie, green, mild cracker nose. Taste is mealy, crouton, itchy tea & caramel, very thin. A bit too basic. Okay-ish. Notes from March 2009 Right after the Boulevard Stout, this Irish red... Ommegang anniversary glass this time. A blank space on the shoulder of the glass where the BB date usually is. Two inches of yellowed & dense milkshake head. Slow to settle. Heavy activity inside its tawny amber body. Smell is a little soapy(I only rinsed), faintly grainy, & again metallic. First off, I notice the feel is quite frothy & creamy. A sure amount of caramel upfront, plus a good wad of dough. Flavors of ginger &/or bubble gum are noticeable. Breakfast cereal-like grain sweetness. Barky, chewing on a toothpick-like bitterness & feel on the finish. Body is a little heavier then I was expecting. Carbonation is low. It needed a little more bite, but otherwise decently inconspicuous for the style. Goes well with grey meat & olive-colored drapes. :P
Kleg (3852) reviewed Irish Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz. bottle from Total Wine. Pours a clear reddish-amber color with a khaki head and good retention. Very few spots of lacing. Light caramel malt and hops aroma. Smooth, sweet toasted caramel flavor up front with a faint smokey and hops finish. Medium-light body and medium carbonation. Low bitterness. Pretty good example of the style.
MrSpooks (5447) reviewed Irish Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Faithful interpretation of an underwhelming style. Caramel, toast, nuts, and fresh wheat bread lead to a mild floral bitterness on the back end and a dry, doughy fade. Inoffensive, but not terribly interesting. A good background beer, I guess, when you don't give a shit what you're drinking as long as it isn't utter swill. Gorgeous red-brown color, though.
Bitterbill (4330) reviewed Irish Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
From Jun2007
Purchased at Liquor Shed in Casper
This ours from 12oz bottle(best by May 1 2007) a nice clear amber with a smallish head of foam that shrinks pretty quickly to some spotting near the edge of the glass with some lacing.
The smell has some sweet and roasted malt to it and it's nice.
The taste isn't as sweet as the nose would indicate and that's fine by me. This has a good roastiness to it with some sweet notes and some fruity hop goodness there as well that shows up mostly in the finish. Nice long lasting aftertaste that is very yummy.
A very smooth yet tasty drinker...I've had this many times before and I was surprised to find that I hadn't reviewed it yet. I think this is a top notch example of the style and I *believe*, my favourite to date. Very well done, Boulevard!
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Irish Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Backlog in tree 12 oz bottle pours out a brown color with a little bit of red highlights topped with a sand head. Nose is nice bread malt a little bit of roast nut and earthy hops. Taste is more of the ligh hops and the nice Woody notes.
cheap (9533) reviewed Irish Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Short stubby bottle like the one pictured but the label is different, it says red ale prominently. Big malty aroma that follows a milder malty nose. First taste is aged ale like. Decent co2, but yes this is quite like an irish ale of the old country, I think. Difficult, does not hide its abv attribute, its there, get used to it. Reddish? Not too sure, its more like orange brown yellow, 314. Whew. Becomes a little difficult in the end, but it is beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured into a mug, the appearance was a ruddy semi-dark burnt red color. Quickly dissipating finger’s worth of white foamy head. Mild stringy lacing.
The aroma centers around some sweet nuts, caramel tones, light tofffee, some toast.
The flavor wraps all of those previously mentioned aromas together. Smooth dry malty sweet aftertaste leading into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Medium carbonation. Malts create a nice smoothness on my tongue.
Overall, decent Irish red ale that I could have again.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Irish Ale from Boulevard Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle, courtesy of gregwilsonstl, pours with a clear amber to ruby red body that supports a full tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malts, earthy malts, a hit of caramel malts, floral hops, raisins and brown sugar dusted dates. The taste starts smooth with a pleasing blend of soft sweet malts, faint caramel malts, chocolate malts and roasted malts. Toward midway it picks up sweet fruity ester notes that are lined with dates and raisins. This stays soft and supple right into the finish where a subtle earthy mineral sensation joins in to close out the experience. Nice beer. I dig it.