Bundle Up
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Winter Out of Production|
Score
7.06
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Baby, it’s cold outside – come in and cozy up with our antidote to winter. Our first Barleywine, this big, bold beer features complex layers of caramel malt for an intense, warming presence. A liberal dose of spicy, piney American hops balances the blend, giving way to sweet, lingering notes of rum and raisin.
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drpimento (5997) reviewed Bundle Up from Boulevard Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Disappointed. Has a very mild malty aroma. Flavors are better in a way because of the complexity and for the most part decency but hindered by pronounced metallic character and dark fruits toffee and caramel malt but that metallic thing really gets in the way.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle pour at bar. This has probably been opened for a while with the pours but not head. Aroma smells a little oxidized already. Otherwise, some cherry (not astringent), some alcoholic-chewy-maybe-could-have-been-better-fermented malts. Some green leaves. Flavor is much better though. Lots of fruit accented lightly syrup-ed chewy malts. None of the offputtting aspects of the aroma. Low bitterness, no strong alcohol presence and finish rather light. Perhaps I should retry this with a fresh bottle bc the bar shared bottle pours may have been old.
superspak (10160) reviewed Bundle Up from Boulevard Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750 ml bottle into snifter, bottled on 8/17/2017. Pours slightly hazy dark ruby red/brown color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, peach, plum, apricot, raisin, fig, date, cherry, red apple, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of nuttiness, roast, pepper, pine, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus hops, fruity yeast, and dark/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, peach, plum, apricot, raisin, fig, date, cherry, red apple, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of nuttiness, roast, pepper, pine, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light pine, citrus peel, herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, peach, plum, apricot, raisin, fig, date, cherry, red apple, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, brown bread, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus hops, fruity yeast, and dark/bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is fantastic. Mildly increasing warmth of 10.5% after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic barleywine! All around outstanding complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus hops, fruity yeast, and dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Not overly sweet or bitter either way. Perfect balance of English/American styles as advertised. Fruity Scottish yeast and balanced classic C hops; with very rich/complex dark/bready English malts. A highly enjoyable offering.
Edwgallo (6795) ticked Bundle Up from Boulevard Brewing Company 8 years ago
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Bundle Up from Boulevard Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750 c&c from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours dark ruddy copper with a creamy tan head. Aroma of brown sugar and some pine/spice hoppiness. Quite interesting. Med ++ body. Flavor is brown sugar and resin and darker fruits. Clearly hoppy, but it's not dry and it's not too bitter. It's sort of a pine bitter that stays but doesn't dominate. Nowhere near as sugary as oh so many barley wines. In a way the flavor suggests something in the cola neighborhood. Intriguing. Good change.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Bundle Up from Boulevard Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Caged and corked 750mL bottle pours with a clear ruby red mahogany colored body that supports a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malts ,molasses, a thin hit of brown sugar, plum and fig. The taste delivers fairly smooth slick malt sweetness, molasses infused plum and some dates. To midway the molasses picks up a mild date like earthy and spiciness that's working well here. Into the finish a mild sense of brown sugar also bubbles to the surface along with a well restrained booziness. This is pretty solid. May need to get some cellared. 12 months maybe.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Bundle Up from Boulevard Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a very dark brown color with a huge foamy orange-tan head that lingered forever and left decent lacing. The aroma was sweetish with pine, toffee and rum. The flavor was bitterish with toasted caramel, tobacco, booze and cleaning solution. Long finish. Medium bodied with growing booziness that distracted rather than enhanced. Disappointing.
Rennat42 (5616) reviewed Bundle Up from Boulevard Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. A- Malty, caramel, subtle booze. A- Dark copper color, dark liquid, off white head. T- Malty, caramel, burnt sugar. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, bland finish. O- A lot less exciting than what I expect from these kind of beers from Boulevard. Definitely an English style Barleywine but a very malty and bland one. Not bad but I wanted so much more complexity.