Lunar Ale
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Weizen - Dunkelweizen Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.23
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Our first new year-round beer since 1996, Lunar Ale is in a category all its own.
Boulevard Lunar Ale is a cloudy, russet brown beer, with subtle aromatic notes provided by our special proprietary yeast strain. Lunar Ale’s distinctive rounded, mellow flavor is crowned by a crisp, dry finish. The old world art of bottle conditioning creates a secondary fermentation, resulting in a beer that tastes fresher, better, longer.
Boulevard Lunar Ale is a cloudy, russet brown beer, with subtle aromatic notes provided by our special proprietary yeast strain. Lunar Ale’s distinctive rounded, mellow flavor is crowned by a crisp, dry finish. The old world art of bottle conditioning creates a secondary fermentation, resulting in a beer that tastes fresher, better, longer.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle on 01/31/2009. Best by 12/14/2008. Clear copper amber body with a small creamy off-white head. Sweet banana, lots of clove and a bit of caramel with some other spices. Sweet clove, banana and spice flavor. Medium light body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2009
at 16:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Murky medium brown or brown/orange, medium tight buff head. Toasty nose with notes of chocolate and banana. Creamy, estery body with chocolate-covered banana, toast, and cereal, finishing bitter. Not too sweet. Quaffable. Decent session ale.
Tried
on 21 Oct 2008
at 13:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 oz. bottle. All I knew about this was the label mentioning wheat, but I figured this to be a dunkelweizen when it poured a deep dark brown, with a thin ring of foam. Smell is nice, if a bit faint. Taste has clean toasty malts and easily detectable wheat, with a bit of treacle. Clean lager finish, but there is a bit of lactic aftertaste. There are not too many bottled American dunkelweizens out there, and most brewpub versions are big and chewy. But this one is just fine as commercial beers go.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2008
at 11:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from D&J Liquor of St. Louis, MO. Dark amber color with a decent beige head that went down fast. Smells a bit like old style linoleum paste. Medium body with very mild carbonation. The instant impression is restrained banana, with some dark grainy malt sweetness. It has a decent amount of citrus like bitter. Finishes like it ought. For me it’s refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2008
at 22:15
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a dark brown amber color with a small white head that diminishes rather quickly. The aroma is a strong clove, banana and malt. Decent lacing on the glass. The taste is a faint clove with a dry spicy finish. A decent dunkel from Boulevard.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2008
at 00:09
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
bottle-pours an off white ring and cloudy amber color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel, spice. Taste is a bit thin, sweet medium malt-caramel, spice. Thanks to decaturstevo for picking this out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2008
at 21:17
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Aroma is perfume hops with alcohol and the fruity smell I have come to associate with Boulevard beers (its like a mix of banana, raspberry or cassis and some other floral hops). Pour yields a hazy brown sugar body with a small fizzy off-white heead that goes away fully, but leaves decent lacing. Taste is bitter and salty out back with a yeasty aftertaste. Watery mouthfeel and lively carbonation round out this pleasant beer.
Tried
on 08 Feb 2008
at 11:34
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
12 oz bottle from Soonah! Nose is nutty with some very light banana esters; cloudy brown with a small straw head; flavor has light pepperiness, with some toffee, and very light banana notes. Not near as much enjoyment to the olfactory and gustatory receptors as the better Dunkelweisens I’ve tried! Kind of weak and watery!
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2008
at 23:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Super hazy deep brown coloured body with a muddy appearance and a light tan head. Aroma of bananas, wheat, yeast, nuts, honey, curacao and coriander seed...really - what isn’t there to like?!? Light to Medium-Bodied; Mild wheatie taste with spices showing first, then fading to a smooth sweetness. Aftertaste shows coriander seed, nutmeg, cardamom & curacao most...coupled with a strong wheat taste. Overall, a good dunkel in my opinion - one of the better ones...definitely worth trying! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Joe’s Place in Oklahoma City (Norma), Oklahoma on 03-October-2007.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2007
at 01:44
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On draught at Kauffman Stadium in KC, served in a plastic cup. Pours a darkish-brown color with a medium thin off-white head that diminishes to a compact layer that stays. Lacing spotty but again it was a plastic cup. Aroma of toasted malt, wheat and caramel. Medium-bodied with a somewhat banal flavor profile of roasted malt, banana and caramel. Not much bitterness. The finish is sweet spices and more malt. A lot better than most beers you can find at a ball park, but overall pretty average.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Aug 2007
at 15:33