Vintage Stock
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Black Saison Rotating|
Score
7.23
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A collaboration with Les Bourgeois Vineyards (Rocheport, MO) and Master Sommelier Doug Frost, Vintage Stock is a blend of two dark, moderately sour, mixed-culture saisons aged for many months in oak foeders, puncheons and red wine barrels. Re-fermented on 30,000 pounds of both whole Norton grapes and pressed Norton grape juice, this love letter to wild fermentation blurs the line between beer and wine, and is our most ambitious fruited mixed-culture beer to date.
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jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Vintage Stock from Boulevard Brewing Company 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9.5 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
a: ultra dark brown coloured body | thin tan head
a: spontaneous fermentation | cedar | rich pitted fruits
f: tart grapes | figs | oaky finish
t: soured prunes | rustic | complex yeasts
o: great dark fruit notes | amazing funky yeast | aged well & very nice to try around Christmas!
75 cL corked and caged bottle | Total Wine: Manassas, Virginia | 27-November-2020 | US$13,49 | lot: 11720-1 | best by: 17-January-2022 (whoops!) | sampled: 08 & 09 December 2025, just over
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Best by Jan 17, 2022. $6.99 at John's. Satisfying champagne pop, buy luckily no gushers. Deep purple grape color, with a short-lived fizzy head. Smell is of red wine with a bit of barrel mustiness. Taste is both sweet and tart, like a Belgian funk bomb. Plenty of grape wine to it. n fact, much more wine than beer. It's okay by me once in a while. Liking the tart, funk and mustiness. That seems to be what the beer brings for the most part.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
750 bottle. Pours a purplish with a medium pink head that soon fizzes away. The aroma is faint and indistinct with a trace of grapes, The taste is overtly sour, with lots of sour grapes accompanied by breads and some woodiness. Finished sharply tart/sour. Overall: Not really my cup of tea (or beer). missing was all the yeast and esters I expect in a saison. This had the character of a grapey Flemish red with the sour aspect dialed up to 9.9. Paired with an aged Gouda cheese, and that worked rather well and cut the sharpness.