Boulder Beer Company

Client Brewer in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1979

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Boulder, CO, United States
Description
Founded as the Boulder Brewing Company in 1979 as the first craft brewery in Colorado; it started brewing the following year. In 1990, the company changed its name to Boulder Beer Company. In 1993 the company again renamed itself as the Rockies Brewing Company. In 2005, the company again changed its name back to the Boulder Beer Company.
In January 2020 the brewpub closed but through a new partnership with Sleeping Giant Brewing Company in Denver, who will continue to brew, package and distribute the Boulder Beer brands to the retail market, the brand will stay alive.

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7/10
Kinda bitter chocolate, sweetish malt, wine shows up mostly in the finish. Nice.
Tried on 13 Jan 2017 at 16:51

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
35,5 cl bottle @ olio
Aroma has cereal/biscuit and sweet fruity tones. Also sweet malt. Flavour has minerals, herbal hops and biscuity tones. Flavour has biscuity tones, cereal and some menthol notes in the finish.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2016 at 10:39

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
355ml bottle. Pours dark copper orange with a smooth head. Aroma of biscuity and caramely malts, hints of grassy hops. Taste is caramely, biscuity and sweetish with hints of grass and herbal notes. Finish is sweetish, biscuity and slightly stuffy with hints of herbal hoppiness. A bit stuffy.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2016 at 10:38

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Keg at Whole Foods Milwaukee. Hazy amber, large creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of fresh peach and pale malt. The taste is toasted malts, herbal hops, dry peach. Medium bodied.
Tried on 17 Dec 2016 at 10:18

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draft pour pint at Hop and Hound, presented on nitro. A clean reddish copper pour with a thick cream head and lacing. Malt forward aroma. Flavor is a little warming, toasty, caramel. Quite a bit of metallic notes in the flavor as well. Creamy, and overall a nice winter beer here. Pretty good.
Tried from Draft on 13 Dec 2016 at 18:58

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at Akkurat. A bit hazy light orange with a white head. Aroma and taste of caramel, hops, malt and citrus. On the sweet side with a medium body.
Tried from Draft on 13 Dec 2016 at 03:49

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Sampled on draft at 3R6P this beer poured a murky orange color with a large foamy orange-white head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was sweet and tangy with peach and a bit of yeast. The flavor was sweet and a bit tart with peach, crisp fruity hops, orange and mild bitterness underneath. Long peach and orange finish. Medium body. Quite nice.
Tried from Draft on 07 Dec 2016 at 08:24

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Cigarette City. Appearance is mostly clear (despite the name), slightly hazy copper/amber with fair sparkle, finger-width foamy off-white head with poor retention and trace lacing. Aroma is dank, resinous hops and light fruit and citrus over malt backbone. Taste is similar to aroma. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thick texture, lively carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, a pretty middle-of-the-road amber. This was a little old so likely lost some hoppiness, and thus some flair, but still fine.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2016 at 18:17

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 6
Bottle pour into shaker pint glass from Cigarette City. Appearance is slightly hazy pale orange with greenish tinge, light sparkle, minimal white fizzy head with poor retention, and fair sudsy lacing. Aroma is caramel malt, musty, earthy hops, citrus background. Taste is more sweet malts than bitter earthy hops but a balance. Palate is medium bodied with thick texture, average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, this was more pale ale than IPA with malt dominance but this was also a little elderly so that may have skewed things.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Dec 2016 at 18:36

7.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle pour into shaker pint glass from Cigarette City. Appearance is clear reddish-brown with effervescent sparkle, 1/2 finger-width creamy beige head with nice retention and lots of sudsy lacing. Aroma is bready malt base with citrus, light tropical fruit hops. Taste is initial caramel/malt hit, followed by the citrus and tropical fruit. Palate is medium bodied with creamy texture, soft-to-average carbonation, and mostly sweet finish like taste. Overall, based on other reviews was expecting something pretty terrible but this wasn’t bad at all. Not getting any pine, and this would be better classified as a pale ale but there’s at least a little something interesting going on.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2016 at 21:27