Double-Wide I.P.A. - Boulevard Brewing Co.

Reaper16

Alabama

4.35/5  rDev +9.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

served on-tap at Boulevard Brewery

Poured a brown/orange, perhaps copper, color. Abundant beige head that didn't really go away. Darker than expected, but sort of captivatingly so; really pretty beer.

Big-time hop aroma. Smells like a DIPA, honestly. Boat-loads of citrus, especially grapefruit. Pine notes. Put a big grin on my face. The malts are there, but are definitely overshadowed by the significant hop smells.

Taste departs from the aroma in that the malt presence is tasted much more significantly than it is smelled. Nice caramely malt flavor, a little bready. The hops here are more pronounced on-tap than in the normal bottled version of Double Wide. A deliciously puckering amount of grapefruit flavor greets the tongue. Plenty of pine resin and even orange peel, too. The hops work very nicely on tap. Make no mistake, Double Wide is the definition of balanced. Just less-so on-tap. This is a treat.

The alcohol content is noticeable after awhile. Because you really can't get this on-tap many places, though, there isn't the expectation to try and session this or anything. As is, it is both drying and refreshing. A dangerous combo, sure, but an agreeable one.

Basically, this is very, very good. Double Wide exists in the wonderful little borderland between IPA and DIPA. It is perhaps balanced to a fault, especially if one expects a full-on DIPA. Whatever it is, it is a splendid offering from Boulevard. I really hope to have this on-tap again sometime.

Serving type: on-tap

12-15-2008 06:23:40 | More by Reaper16

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3.91/5  rDev -1.8%
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A-Clear amber orange, two finger head, leaves some lacing.

S-Malt, caramel, some dirt and grass, not as much hops as I was expecting.

T-Starts malty with caramel, then dirt and grassy hops. Milt citrus hops and mild bitterness.

M-Medium bodied, nicely carbonated and some hop resins.

O-Not as aggressive for a DIPA as I'd like, the bottle was fresh, but it needed some more hops.

Serving type: bottle

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