Tropical Pale Ale
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
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6.55
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We’re very excited to announce that a new year-round beer will be joining our lineup this spring! Inspired by our collaboration with Florida’s famed Cigar City Brewing, Tropical Pale Ale marries our love and mastery of balanced pale ales with the bright, refreshing flavors of grapefruit and passion fruit accented by juicy, citrusy hops.
Tropical Pale Ale begins with a base of soft pilsner malt layered with Maris Otter, Munich and caramel malts. Huge late hopping with a blend of Mosaic, Citra, Topaz, Calypso and Azacca lends bright flavors of mango, pear, blueberry and citrus to a pale ale featuring slightly toasted biscuit and caramel/toffee notes. Tropical Pale Ale is infused with grapefruit peel, grapefruit juice and passion fruit juice at the conclusion of the boil, resulting in a refreshing acidity and bold tropical fruit flavor and aroma. Currently available on draft with cans scheduled to be released starting in the Greater Kansas City Area on May 10th with other regions soon to follow, Tropical Pale Ale is 5.9 ABV and 45 IBU.
Tropical Pale Ale begins with a base of soft pilsner malt layered with Maris Otter, Munich and caramel malts. Huge late hopping with a blend of Mosaic, Citra, Topaz, Calypso and Azacca lends bright flavors of mango, pear, blueberry and citrus to a pale ale featuring slightly toasted biscuit and caramel/toffee notes. Tropical Pale Ale is infused with grapefruit peel, grapefruit juice and passion fruit juice at the conclusion of the boil, resulting in a refreshing acidity and bold tropical fruit flavor and aroma. Currently available on draft with cans scheduled to be released starting in the Greater Kansas City Area on May 10th with other regions soon to follow, Tropical Pale Ale is 5.9 ABV and 45 IBU.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Big, fruity hops on top of a moderately sweet biscuit-n-caramel malt base. Juicy, sure, but a bit weak on the whole, lacking needed bitterness to offset the malts and heavy citrus salad coming from the hopping. Not bad, but not memorable either.
Tried
on 22 May 2017
at 23:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Shared 12 oz. can. Clear gold, white head. Aroma of citrus and tropical fruit. Taste is tropical fruit, caramel, pine, grapefruit notes. OK.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Apr 2017
at 23:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz can. Clear light gold color with a large off white head and very good retention. Decent lacing. Strong grapefruit and hops nose. Similar taste. A little less bitter thanks to the grapefruit flavors. Not bad for a pale ale. 5.9 ABV is undetected.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2017
at 16:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours amber gold with a creamy white head. Aroma is citrus and a little exotic fruit. Med body or better. Flavor is grapefruit rind and some other fruit(s). Rather dry, and fairly bitter in a citrusy way. Quite quaffable.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Feb 2017
at 20:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from Total Wine, West Richmond. Pours clear golden. White head. Aroma of tropical fruit, mainly what I associate with passion fruit. Flavor is also passion fruit, bitter flowers, minor citrus, but a heavy dose of citric acid in the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jan 2017
at 17:23
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Lots of grapefruit here and some rind. Golden pour with decent head and lacing. Some bitterness in finish. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Nov 2016
at 21:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 ounce can, 6/6/16. Clear copper, large foamy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of passionfruit and grapefruit zest. The taste is lime, passion fruit, grapefruit, pale malt. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness, juicy.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Nov 2016
at 23:24
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
The Sampler, Brooklyn can: pours golden with a white head. Aroma is a lot of the tropical fruit, citrus and all. Taste is lightly bitter. Grapefruity bitterness. A little sweet. ok.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Oct 2016
at 22:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can: Mild grapefruit and gym sock nose. Clear amber, medium head, nice lacing. Grapefruit, mild gym sock. Light body, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2016
at 06:50
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
can - Pours copper colored with a lingering off-white head. It smells of bready malt and citrus. The flavor is of mild, bready malt sweetness and citrus with the grapefruit in particular coming through strong. It’s moderately bitter and unfortunately it’s a bitterness that reminds me of grapefruit rind. Dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Sep 2016
at 12:27