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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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Christers. Pours hazy orange with a offwhite head. Aroma of malt, fruity hops, peach, grapefruit. Flavor is malt, peach, citrus, greapefruit, orangepeel, little pine. Medium body, soft carbonation, light bitter finish. 010813
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2013
at 02:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Hazy orange with a lasting off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and rather hoppy - fruity and grapefruit. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 010813
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2013
at 12:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Hazy amber with big off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, hops, citrus, grapefruit and pine. Flavour is malt, caramel, hops, citrus, grapefruit, pine, little sweet and quite bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2013
at 12:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are sweet fruits, apricot, citrus, caramel, pine, hops, flowers and malt. Nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2013
at 12:47
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Flaske fra polet: kremtopp som kiler på nesen, og fristelsene stiger opp fra mitt Duvel-glass i form av en herlig aroma av bringebær/bjørnebær, rød grapefrukt og lime. Vidunderlig. Smaken bare innbyr til en ny slurk, dette er farlig godt - kraftkost for viltre krabater. "Aggressively hopped" står det misvisende på etiketten, her er det bare eleganse og balanse. Ettersmaken varte gjennom hele "Radio City Serenade" med Mark Knopfler (5’14).
Tried
on 25 Jun 2013
at 10:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is peaches, pine, hop. grapefruit. Flavour is sweet, peaches, hop, pine, grapefruit, tropical fruit, caramel. Full body. Bitter finish. Nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2013
at 21:27
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Grassy, citrus and resin. Cloudy amber with a thick white head. Mild lemon grass and a hit of long but well balanced bitterness. Nice and drinkable but a bit weak for a IIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2013
at 15:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
dark amber color. Sweet malty backbone, cherries, grapefruit. Very malty with cherries and bananas.
Tried
on 08 May 2013
at 05:03
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Amber with a solid white head - good hoppy aroma - good hop flavours with some fruits, citrus and pine - Nice hoppy ending with pine nad a dry lasting finish - this was good
Tried
on 04 May 2013
at 04:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Moving out of KS rate-a-poolza. 12oz bottle poured into a Blvd tulip glass. Bottled on the 14th day of 2013. Best by 10/15, pretty far out. Purchased out of fridge in store.
The beer pours pretty beautifully in this glass as giant rush of bubbles rush to the surface to form a medium thick head that has a nice retention. The color is much darker than I remember for this beer (honestly speaking I probably have not bought this since this first came out in the lil smokies); a glowing dark amber. Too dark to see through. Aroma: starts off with some sweet hops than jumps to a dash of caramel malts and then bitter hops. Too much malt for my preference, particular caramel malts. Comes off as sweaty socks, I don’t like that. Toffee sweet and bitter are not my thang. Flavor is a bit more hops and a bit less malts, nicer for me. Hops are sweeter, which I like as well. Mix of C hops and some other in there, some resinous character, some orange. Bitterness breaks up the beer at the end. Its decent stuff but I really don’t like the caramel malt character in hoppy beers. Fortunately, the flavor is much less on that aspect but as it warms up it comes out more. Need to finish this beer faster.
The beer pours pretty beautifully in this glass as giant rush of bubbles rush to the surface to form a medium thick head that has a nice retention. The color is much darker than I remember for this beer (honestly speaking I probably have not bought this since this first came out in the lil smokies); a glowing dark amber. Too dark to see through. Aroma: starts off with some sweet hops than jumps to a dash of caramel malts and then bitter hops. Too much malt for my preference, particular caramel malts. Comes off as sweaty socks, I don’t like that. Toffee sweet and bitter are not my thang. Flavor is a bit more hops and a bit less malts, nicer for me. Hops are sweeter, which I like as well. Mix of C hops and some other in there, some resinous character, some orange. Bitterness breaks up the beer at the end. Its decent stuff but I really don’t like the caramel malt character in hoppy beers. Fortunately, the flavor is much less on that aspect but as it warms up it comes out more. Need to finish this beer faster.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2013
at 21:02