Proper Pour: Cabernet Cask (2024)
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating|
Score
7.28
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Our world-renowned barrel-aging program has done it again. Returning for year 3, Proper Pour continues to blend the lines of our barrel-aged series with this distinctly wine-barrel finished bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout. Aged in 20yr bourbon barrels for almost two years before spending 5 months in mid-coast Californian red wine barrels.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Opaque, Pitch-Black Color, Mid-Sized Mocha Color Bubbly Head, OK Retention, Thin Runny Ring of Lacing, Few Fine Strings Left Behind. Sweet, Sugary Booze Aroma. Sweet, Sugary, Warming Alcohol Heat. Same In Aftertaste: Sweet, Sugary, Warming Whiskey Barrel Sting. Smooth. Easy Going. All Whiskey, No Red Wine Barrel For Me... Good. Enjoyed It. Recommended...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at the February 2025 PS tasting, 2/15/24. Black, thin tan head, average retention. Aroma is wine forward with roast following. Taste is roast, chocolate, oak, wine, raisin. Full bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Aromas are dark ripe fruit, dark malt, roast and a hint of toffee. Flavors are similar to nose, balanced between bitter, sweet and carbonation. Add in a touch of coffee and roast comes out a little more. Average body. Fairly easy drinking for the strength. Maybe a hint of whiskey in there somewhere but don't notice the red wine barrel. Decent.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Livonia Liquor. Pours a pitch black with purple/brown highlights and a finger of brown head that dissipates. Big Cabernet cask and oak aromas on the nose with dark chocolate and plum aromas. Palate is similar with more Cab and oak, a touch of chocolate and warming whiskey. Finishes balanced with loud whiskey, cabernet and chocolate notes.
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