Deep Flux
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: 3 Floyds Brewing CompanyBarley Wine - Barley Rotating
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Score
7.25
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DEEP (adj) extending far down from the top or surface.
FLUX (n) describes something that constantly changes.
A while back, we took our friends at 3 Floyds on a long strange trip down a deep, dark hallway past thousands of our bourbon, rum, tequila, and red wine barrels. We stopped to rest next to a collection of rye whiskey and Madeira wine casks, and after a few beers, we agreed that, yes, these were the chosen ones. A couple more beers and we heard them tell us they wanted to be filled with barleywine – and when barrels speak, we listen.
Deep Flux is a unique, pale barleywine that pours a rich auburn color with aromas of brown sugar, oak, and dark stone fruit. This malty brew is beautifully complimentary of its barrel aging, which spent 100% of its process in wood barrels and broke down into 60% in rye whiskey barrels and 40% in Madeira wine casks. The end result for Deep Flux is a big and boisterous barleywine with resplendent flavors of rye, Madeira, and oak lurking in the barrels.
We think you’ll agree that this beer is far from ordinary.
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deyholla (22839) reviewed Deep Flux from Boulevard Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours a clear amber gold with a white head that dissipates quickly and completely. Aroma has sweet grains and a bit of caramel with juicy wine barrel and a hint of whiskey backing. Flavor has bready sweet grains and caramel with a bit of whiskey and a hint of wine barrel underlying.
willisread (9801) reviewed Deep Flux from Boulevard Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Holiday Market. Pours a copper color with a finger of light beige head that dissipates. Honey, bread, muscat and oak dominate the nose. A bit of sherry like cream on the palate with warming alcohol - Madeira notes really stand out at first on the palate, then a kick of whiskey spice and oak. Malt, warming whiskey and grape must linger on the warming finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Pour is a dark copper with a huge tan head. Aroma is whiskey barrell, lots of vanilla and oak with some spicy rye. Flavor is again big on the oaky vanilla and whiskey with some dark fruit and a warming alcohol. Huge barrel notes with lots of dark fruit malt with some heavy syrup and a decent hit of alcohol. Pretty much everything you would want in a barrel aged barleywine.
notalush (7362) reviewed Deep Flux from Boulevard Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle - unusual to see something so light in color seem so viscous out of the bottle - pours headless and looks rather still - nose is heavy on oak and the wine - smells sweet but has an underlying acidity - flavor is quite sweet, with notes of toasted oak, vanilla, sherry-oxidation, dark fruit - whiskey and wine are apparent, but the wine is more dominant - quite boozy - the alcohol is very strong in the finish - okay, but needs time to mellow out.
blackflag321 (2901) ticked Deep Flux from Boulevard Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5