Galway Bay Brewery Boulevardier 2022

Boulevardier 2022

 

Galway Bay Brewery in Oranmore, Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪

Collab with: Browar Stu Mostów
  Barley Wine - Barley Special Out of Production
Score
7.47
ABV: 11.3% IBU: - Ticks: 9
Note this is NOT a batch of the base beer but a one off special collab version.

Boulevardier is a barrel aged Barleywine brewed with our good friends Browar Stu Mostów from Wrocław, Poland. In April 2018 we brewed a double mash Barleywine wort which was boiled for several hours, fermented long & cool before being aged in select Bourbon & Vermouth casks. From that original 2018 casking, we blended now 4 year old Barleywine from those vermouth & bourbon casks with a portion of young Barleywine for a fresh citrus hoppy kick. This harmonious 2022 blend evokes flavours of one of our favourite cocktails, the Boulevardier.
 

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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tried on 19 Jun 2025 at 23:05


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

10th May 2025
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear deep amber beer, good bubbly pale tan head. Palate is light, mildly dry and has a good fine minerally crispness. The flavour is basically all those archive brews from the 190s and 1970s, well the good ones anyway! Smooth mildly caramel malt, a little dark toffee Cooling pine, a mild hop spice nip. Hugely frameshift changing, got a light bright pine and hop sting element over what tastes like it has.been aged for decades

Tried on 10 May 2025 at 22:32


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home, from one of the Irish on line peddlers whom I can't recall, 27/04/2025.
Dark mahogany brown topped with a beige cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is ripe dark fruits, herb, spice, molasses, toffee fudge, dates, figs.
Taste comprises fruit cake mix, spice, booze tunes, bourbon nip which is slightly more intense than the vermouth, dates, toffee, caramelised brown sugar.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a balanced rising boost.
Solid BA life.

Tried on 27 Apr 2025 at 18:01


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Very dark brown with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a certain herbal, grassy note maybe from the Vermouth. Lots of vanilla sweetness and nice malty body. Oily texture.

Tried on 01 Nov 2024 at 18:59


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at Beergeek Bar. Hazy brownish body, off-white head gone soon. Heavy aroma, citric somewhat, cocoa notes, noticeable barrel presence. Cakey, malty taste, touch of alcohol, dried fruits abounds, smooth, creamy and highly drinkable!

Tried from Draft on 26 Jun 2024 at 13:33


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Mahogany with a short head. Deep booze fruit aroma. Flavour is wood and vermouth, dark fruits, quite boozy, warm wood finish sh.

Tried on 12 Apr 2024 at 23:48


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Beerdome. Almost black with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit, wood and bourbon. Flavor is very sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish with lots of warming alcohol. Oily. 260124

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jan 2024 at 22:31


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Flaske fra Beerdome. Sort med et beige skum. Den dufter af ristet malt, fad og krydret, nærmest paprika agtigt. Den er sød og fyldig med en lidt tær eftersmag.

Tried on 26 Jan 2024 at 21:44


7

This one is too thin. Chocolate, whiskey, malty, caramelly, booze,

Tried from Bottle on 16 Dec 2023 at 20:13