Barrel-Aged Imperial Porter
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.03
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Black with a tiny foamy dark brown head. Red wine, bourbon, dough, chocolate, coffee and fruity hops. Very long finish. Full bodied and smooth
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
12 oz. bottle, pours jet black with a small light brown head. Aroma is a total soy sauce bomb, with lots of salty soy dominating, followed by subdued bourbon and a little molasses. Flavour is much the same, with loads of what seems like soy sauce and marmite -- seriously, this is very strange. I guess it's the rum that is causing this? There's some bourbon further back, but it's mostly salty marmite with a very viscous, alcoholic rum-like palate. Odd stuff. Not working for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from 2021 BLVR + D six pack - label says it’s brewed with lactose and brown sugar and aged in rum, rye, and bourbon barrels - viscous black pour - there is an interplay between the rum and brown sugar qualities that I find warming and comforting (and I don’t normally care for beers aged in rum barrels) - I think the addition of rye and bourbon aged beers cuts the typically strong rum presence and adds a spiciness that compliments it - Cerebral brewing here in Denver recently released a rum-aged stout with Paella sugar which I feel like was going for something similar - that failed, but I’d call this a success.