Boulevard Limited/Seasonal Release Thread [Chocolate Ale, Rye on Rye, etc.]

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A new Flash Pack has developed 📸
The latest lineup of this picturesque pack features three cans each of the brand new Steep Drop Nitro Coffee Milk Stout, the returning Tart Apple Radler, plus year-round favorites Space Camper and Easy Sport.
Learn more and look for it to start hitting shelves over the next few weeks: https://blvd.ly/FlashPackFall2019

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The boysenberries taste like BOYSENBERRIES.

Over 18 months in the making, Lickable Wallpaper is a sour saison first aged in Chardonnay casks, then a foeder with Washington boysenberries. Look for this newest First Fridays Collection beer to start hitting shelves August 12.

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Boulevard Your Popsicle Melted Coming To First Fridays Collection




This morning we have a fun new beer name coming to the First Fridays Collection from Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City, MO. The beer is called Your Popsicle Melted and it will be a sour ale age din French oak wine barrels and Sangiovanese puncheons and rested on 6,000-pounds of Michigan-grown Balaton cherries (in an oak foeder). The beer will melt in at 7.4%-AbV and it will be packaged in 750ml bottles.

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Turning 30 calls for something truly special. We’re proud to unveil our 30th Anniversary Ale, a complex blend of eight barrel-aged beers that will hit shelves and tap handles in September.



Learn more about this elegant creation and raise a toast with us: https://blvd.ly/30thAnniversaryAle

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Mariachi Moonshine, a barleywine aged in tequila AND whiskey casks, is our newest Brewhouse One Series release and is available to the public starting this Friday, 8/30! BUT, you can be one of the first to get your hands on this brewery-only release with a ticket to our pickup party tomorrow evening, with a portion of proceeds benefitting Mattie Rhodes Center.

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All signs point to a new Sample Twelve. The latest version of our variety pack starts landing on shelves tomorrow, featuring two Boulevard classics plus new Tasting Room offerings Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Brown Ale and Centennial IPA.
Learn more: https://blvd.ly/SampleTwelveFall2019

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Boulevard Tank 7 Coming To Smokestack Series 16oz Cans





Today we have an exciting new Smokestack Series can coming from Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City, MO. This is their classic Tank 7 American saison, and while the beer will remain at 8.5%-AbV & 38 IBU, this is the new 16oz can. Stay tuned for release details.

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Boulevard Adding Phantom Haze DIPA To Smokestack Series 16oz Cans




This morning we have your first peek at a new can coming to the Smokestack Series from Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City, MO. This is Phantom Haze and it will be a double IPA that is “righteously juicy.” The beer will hit 7.5%-AbV & 30 IBU and you’re looking at the 16oz can. Stay tuned for full release details.

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Boulevard & Modern Times Collaborate On Restless Nights




From Boulevard:
A collaboration with Modern Times Beer + Coffee, this beguiling blend of fresh porter and barrel-aged porter was brewed with ten varieties of malted barley, wheat and oats. Following fermentation, this inky brew rested on bourbon barrel-aged coffee for two days, infusing trace notes of ripe fruit, citrus and rich vanilla. Look for it to hit shelves and tap handles in KC starting September 30, with other areas throughout our national distribution footprint to follow.
Modern Times is an intrepid cadre of brewers, coffee roasters and culinary wizards named after a beautifully crazy utopian community founded in 1850. Today, they are a brewery and tasting room in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego.
Ryan McNeive, lead brewer of Boulevard’s barrel-aging program, and Tessie Warnecke, Modern Times Coffee Buyer, answer a few questions about their latest collab.

HOW DID THIS COLLABORATION COME TOGETHER?

Ryan: As we get more into experimenting with artisanal coffee, cellar techniques and barrel-aging, it seemed like a natural fit for this project. We’ve always been fans of their beer, so we reached out and asked if they would ever be interested in collaborating. It came together pretty quickly after that.

CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE BARREL-AGING PROCESS?

Ryan: We wanted to make something complex in flavor that you would want to drink more than one of in a sitting. Most of our barrel-aged beers are 11-15% ABV, so I wanted to make something more drinkable that could still stand up to the barrel-aged flavors, even though “barrel-aged session beers” aren’t really a thing.
In this case, the base beer was 50% barrel-aged in my favorite distiller’s bourbon barrels for six months and then blended with 50% fresh beer. The recipe is a spinoff of a 14% ABV whiskey barrel-aged imperial porter that we are making for 2020 that includes a lot of our favorite malts, and even though we brought down the ABV, the final blend is still big enough to stand up to the coffee and barrel flavors. It’s a different porter than anything we’ve ever released in the past.

WHAT COFFEE BEANS WERE USED IN THIS BLEND? WHEN WERE THEY ADDED TO THE BEER?

Ryan: The coffee blend is 40% bourbon barrel-aged Colombia Silvia and 60% freshly roasted Colombia Heriberto coffee, which was added to the fresh beer, then blended with the BA beer. The process was pretty rad. We took about seven hours hanging and bagging the coffee before we pushed the beer on top to age for a couple of days on whole coffee beans.
Tessie: Both of these coffees I sourced from our connection, Accresco, in Salgar, Colombia. They are about 3 hours outside of Medellin. I got to visit these farms in February and see their operations, it was an incredible experience! They operate seven farms and one nursery, as well as their own wet mills. They partner with a dry mill in the town of Salgar, and have quality control pretty much through the entire supply chain. It is a family owned and operated business, I got to pick coffee alongside 3 different generations of the family.

Colombia Silvia – aged in bourbon barrels for 4 months
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Continent: South America
Country: Colombia
Region: Salgar, Antioquia
Varietal: Castillo
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1600-1850 MASL
Cupping: Chocolate profile, clean, citrus acidity, smooth, consistent and balanced
Species: Arabica, harvest is in July to September, lot altitude: 1600-1850 MASL, picked manually, traditional washed, silo drying process with controlled airflow and temperature below 40 degrees.
Colombia Heriberto
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Continent: South America
Country: Colombia
Region: Salgar, Antioquia
Varietal: Castillo
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1600-1700 MASL
Cupping: Chocolate and mature fruit profile, clean, citrus acidity, vanilla aftertaste, smooth, consistent, and balanced.
Species: Arabica, harvest is in July and August, lot altitude: 1600-1700 MASL, picked manually, traditional washed, 16hr parchment fermentation, silo drying process with controlled airflow and temperature below 40 degrees.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE TASTE OF THIS BEER?

Ryan: This is one of the most complex beers we’ve ever made. Even without an extremely high ABV, there is a lot of body and malt flavors from the 10 malts used. Obviously the barrel-aged beer and barrel-aged coffee give off great whiskey aromatics and tannins that blend into a truly artisanal flavor.

WHAT WOULD YOU PAIR WITH THIS BEER?

Breakfast desserts or pastries, ice cream, and an early morning tailgate

CHARACTERISTICS

ABV – 7.5%
Bitterness – 30 IBUs
Color – 130 EBC

FLAVOR PROFILE

Aroma – Bourbon soaked chocolate, subtle citrus, vanilla
Malt – Rich chocolate, caramel, creamy
Hops – Minimal / supporting
Balance – Malt, coffee, bourbon
Body – Medium to full

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🔄 PICK THAT CAN UP, FLIP IT AND REVERSE IT 🔄


To ensure that the nitrogen in Steep Drop is activated and you have a creamy, smooth experience as intended, invert the can a few times and pour hard. The instructions are on the side of the can, too, JUUUUST in case you forget. ☕

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What's black and blue and sour all over? Our new seasonal offering, Berry Noir. Featuring juicy notes of tart blackberries and blueberries, it hits shelves in the Kansas City area next week, with other regions to follow.

Learn more about this berried treasure: https://blvd.ly/BerryNoir

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Boulevard Plaid Habit Returns 11/4




From Boulevard:
Originally debuting in 2018, Plaid Habit was born a double-mashed imperial brown ale, matured for 18 months in freshly emptied 10-year Canadian rye whisky barrels. Featuring checkered notes of rich vanilla, charred oak, warming whisky and spicy rye, it was a huge hit, and since that initial release, we've received many questions regarding if and when we'll bring it back. So, to answer them all at once: yes, and now! (Well, starting in a week, anyway). Plaid Habit debuts starting in the Greater Kansas City Area on Monday, November 4th with other regions that typically see Smokestack Series Limited Release beers (Rye on Rye, Smooth Fuzz, Love Child series) to follow in the coming weeks. Look for Plaid Habit in four-packs of 12oz bottles and on draft. Please note that we do not have access to our distributors’ delivery schedules and will be unable to confirm when this beer is available near you.
Fermentables
Malted Barley
Pilsner, Maris Otter, pale malt, honey malt, Patagonia Caramel 170
Malted Wheat
Flaked Oats
Brown Sugar
Dextrose
Hops
Topaz
Yeast
Scottish Ale
Flavor Profile
Aroma – Rich caramel, toffee; spicy rye whisky; vanilla
Malt – Toasted, biscuity, caramel
Hops – Minimal, supporting balance
Balance – Malt, whisky
Body – Full
Characteristics
ABV – 12.5%
Bitterness – 13 IBUs
Color – 78 EBC
Pairings
Poutine, maple taffy, aged Gouda, rosemary lamb chops, brown sugar crusted acorn squash

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Boulevard Adding 2019 Limited Release Brandy Land




This morning we bring you a new 2019 Limited Release beer from Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City, MO. This is Brandy Land and it will be a spiced imperial stout aged in Apple Brandy barrels. The beer will roll in at 12.4%-AbV & 32 IBU and you’re looking at the 12oz bottle. Stay tuned here for full release details.

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Boulevard Adding Hustle Up! Blonde Ale For the Kansas City Royals





Today we have a new baseball collaboration beer coming from Boulevard Brewing. This is Hustle Up! blonde ale and it will be brewed for Kansas City Royals baseball. The beer will hit a sessionable baseball-friendly 4%-AbV and 99 calories and 4.5g carbs per 12oz serving. This is the 12oz can and stay tuned for release details.

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Boulevards cold seasonals are on point this year!

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Boulevard Adding Space Camper Star Haze and Lotus Aura IPA Variants




This morning we have your first peek at some new Space Camper variants coming from Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City, MO. Space Camper Star Haze IPA will be a “hazy, hop, blast” IPA that hits 5.9%-AbV and Space Camper Lotus Aura IPA will be a “juicy, hop, blast” IPA that also hits 5.9%-AbV. These are both 12oz can and stay tuned for full release info.

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First Fridays Collection: Your Popsicle Melted



Starting Monday, November 11th, we will release the final piece of our 2019 First Fridays Collection: Your Popsicle Melted. Pouring an alluring scarlet hue, this blend of sour golden ales and saisons was aged in French oak wine barrels and Sangiovese puncheons with our house lactobacillus and brettanomyces cultures before resting on 6,000 pounds of Michigan-grown Balaton cherries for four months in our original oak foeder.
Ryan McNeive, lead brewer of our barrel-aging program, tells us more about the long and complex barrel-aging process involved in making Your Popsicle Melted.

What’s the story behind this beer?

I’ve come across a few Balaton cherry beers in the past, and have always been interested in making one here at Boulevard. Side Project’s Balaton has always inspired me, along with Sun King and a few other breweries that have used this specific cherry. It makes a very interesting flavor when used at a higher ABV.

Tell us about the barrel-aging process. When were the cherries added?

We did a few brews over the course of 14 months, a Belgian Golden Strong in a foeder, and a couple of Saisons in red wine barrels. We blended up a ratio of what we really liked, and then added 6,000 pounds of cherries to that blend and placed it into our foeder.
We then did a super long maceration of the cherries. The whole fruit rested on the blended beer for 4 months. To put that into perspective, we usually do 2-3 months. That can be too long for a lot of fruits, but with cherries a long maceration seems to pick up more intense flavors and a bit more tannins, which creates a really unique beer.

Flavor Profile

Aroma – Tart cherries, lollipops, pie filling, brettanomyces
Malt – Pale malt, pilsner malt, wheat malt, unmalted
Hops – Aged saaz
Balance – Dry, slight puckering
Body – Light to medium

Characteristics

ABV – 7.4%
IBUs – 5
Color – 28

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In case you missed it, we have another Brewhouse One Series release coming your way! Vietnamese Coffee Inspired Imperial Porter will only be available at the brewery starting this Wednesday at 11am.











Vietnamese Coffee Inspired Imperial Porter is rich, roasty and absolutely decadent. Our newest brewery only release drops on 11/27 at 11am . 12oz bottles are $9 and 4-packs are $32. Limit two 4-packs per transaction. Draft pours will also be available in our Beer Hall. Get all the details here: https://blvd.ly/BH1ImperialPorter

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𝙎𝙊𝙊𝙉.

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Chocolate, meet Bar. After resting on crushed Dominican cacao nibs, Chocolate Ale is in bottles and kegs and ready to make your life a little sweeter. Look for this limited release to start hitting shelves on Monday, January 20th. 🍫

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That chocolate ale was horrible. Worst money I spent on a beer ever. Tasted like a flat Oktoberfest style beer.