Double-Wide IPA
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Series Out of Production|
Score
7.53
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Double India Pale Ale (Smokestack Series)
The classic India Pale Ale is a traveler’s beer, aggressively hopped to withstand the long, hot ocean voyage to the British East Indies. Our Double-Wide I.P.A. also travels well, and is right at home in the most exotic ports of call of the Midwest. While this modern-day prairie schooner may not resemble a graceful sailing sloop, our liberal hopping regimen does make her virtually “twister-proof,” with toffee and caramel notes balancing out the lingering bitterness. Enjoy this beer fresh to best appreciate the complex blending of hop aromas, ranging from minty to citrusy, with subtle hints of pine.
Double-Wide I.P.A. uses Columbus and Magnum hops for both bittering and aroma with Chinook hops added in the whirlpool. It is dry hopped with generous amounts of Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook hops. The resulting beer has a hop forward aroma, redolent of peach and apricot. The assertive flavor bursts with the citrus qualities of blood orange and lemon with a slight caramel malt backbone to balance the intense hop flavor. There is little restraint in the flavor of this beer; it is certainly not for the pedestrian palate.
The classic India Pale Ale is a traveler’s beer, aggressively hopped to withstand the long, hot ocean voyage to the British East Indies. Our Double-Wide I.P.A. also travels well, and is right at home in the most exotic ports of call of the Midwest. While this modern-day prairie schooner may not resemble a graceful sailing sloop, our liberal hopping regimen does make her virtually “twister-proof,” with toffee and caramel notes balancing out the lingering bitterness. Enjoy this beer fresh to best appreciate the complex blending of hop aromas, ranging from minty to citrusy, with subtle hints of pine.
Double-Wide I.P.A. uses Columbus and Magnum hops for both bittering and aroma with Chinook hops added in the whirlpool. It is dry hopped with generous amounts of Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook hops. The resulting beer has a hop forward aroma, redolent of peach and apricot. The assertive flavor bursts with the citrus qualities of blood orange and lemon with a slight caramel malt backbone to balance the intense hop flavor. There is little restraint in the flavor of this beer; it is certainly not for the pedestrian palate.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at the cabin in NH. Pours perfectly clear, deep gold with a large, lasting off-white froth head. The nose holds lightly spicy pine, ripe mango, mild dank citrus. Medium to big sweet flavor with lots of ripe fruits, citrus, papaya, light alcohol and moderate piney bitterness. Full bodied with fine carbonation and creamy texture. Warming finish, fairly resinous, with more ripening citrus, booze, mango, pine and papaya. Quite heavy-duty but not at all bad. Mild florals and berries as well. Good ripe mango character lingers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2014
at 15:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Pale, orange amber. Persistent head and good lacing. Good American IPA aroma with grape fruit and orange marmelade. Also sweetness and dried fruits. Similar taste, balanced with malt sweetness. Good drinkability.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Mar 2014
at 12:56
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Cardinal, 2014/03/24. Sweet, very bitter, well balanced, caramel. Smell of raisin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2014
at 12:52
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 ml corked and caged bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 8.5%. Hazy deep orange to amber colour, large off-white head. Delightful sweetish aroma of fruity American hops, notes of oranges. Very hoppy flavour on a solid malty base, notes of oranges again, the bitterness is distinct but not too extreme. A very fine beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2014
at 08:40
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Flaske 0,75l fraVinmonopolet, bestillingsutvalget. Mørkebrun/amber. Veldig høyt tett skum som varer. Fin lacing. Herlig fruktaroma. Fersken. Rik fruktsmak. Plommer & mandler. God fylde. Syrlig & litt tørr ettersmak. Brukt som drikke til fårikål - og det passet utmerket.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2014
at 12:53
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gylden brun med lavt hvitt skum. Brendt karamell og blomsterplanter. Bitter og søt smak. Medium lang bitter ettersmak
Tried
on 09 Feb 2014
at 01:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Appearance: Hazy dark golden color with a fine off white head that leaves an ok lacing.
Aroma: Hoppy, mild fruity and a bit sweet malty.
Palate: Medium + body. Slightly sweet and a nice bitterness. Average carbonation.
Taste: Hoppy, fruity and a bit dominant malty.
Overall impression: My experience was destroyed by a very perfumed lady beside me. Really bad perfume as well.
Personal stats: Bottle at Havnelageret Ølfestival in Fredrikstad, Norway
Aroma: Hoppy, mild fruity and a bit sweet malty.
Palate: Medium + body. Slightly sweet and a nice bitterness. Average carbonation.
Taste: Hoppy, fruity and a bit dominant malty.
Overall impression: My experience was destroyed by a very perfumed lady beside me. Really bad perfume as well.
Personal stats: Bottle at Havnelageret Ølfestival in Fredrikstad, Norway
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2014
at 00:53
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours a super golden amber and leaves more of a slightly bronze looking colored body with a one and a half finger white foamy head that rises to a sort of rocky looking lumpiness that wants to overflow but nicely maintains a classic awesome sustained head that just hovers over top of the glass (wow, what a nice show); the aroma has an initial smell (actually smokey, but quickly goes away, unsure where that came from and unaware if that was intentional), anyways, it leads into a the \"typical\" DIPA smells of citrus and pine coming through in a nice sweet sort of way followed by a slight bitterness; the taste is mainly sweet (there’s an element that wants to be slightly bitter, but it really comes across mainly sweet through the citrus/pine aspects). A very citrus-like aftertaste, dry malty finish and comes across pretty combined - I like it; on the palate this one sits about a medium on the body with a semi-sessionable aspect to it (as far as any DIPA really can be), carbonation comes across like a good DIPA (there’s the harsh bittering pounding on the mouth and tongue but still not overdoing it just to let the malty aspects show their face); overall - I say this is a good DIPA that I would have again, good job Boulevard, I’m certainly glad to have finally tried this and would certainly be glad to have it again.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jan 2014
at 23:17
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. A- Citrus, hops, floral, grains. A- Amber color, cloudy liquid, white head. T- Peaches, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, hoppy, bitter. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, smooth bitter finish. O- Surprisingly refreshing and not as bitter as one could be let to believe. The citrus tones balance it unbelievably well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2013
at 08:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours clear amber with an enormous creamy head. Aroma is sweet hops with mango and apricot, lots of fruit and berries as well as toffee malt and kandi. Full body with average carbonation. Flavour is bitter with orange peel and peach, as well as malt and bread. Fruity hoppy orange peel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2013
at 07:33