Collaboration No. 2 from, Boulevard x Deschutes

Another great limited release Smokestack Series from Boulevard today, this time a much lighter beer in the form of a Belgium IPA, with the help of the Oregon brewery, Deschutes.
The Collab was poured into the smokestack glass, filling it with a golden yellow color with plenty of head (3 fingers) with plenty of bubbles also. 
The IPA smells of citrus, a lot of clove and hops, and a bit spicy. 
The grass and hop taste is what meets the buds (of the taste variety) first, then very citrusy  with plenty of lemon at the end. The citrus does cause for a tad of a bitter and tart taste. 


Sadly I opened this at a point where I felt I had drank to many IPAs recently (as a lover of stouts I get this way sometimes with light beers), but this beer just made me want 2 more bottles. Great beer, and can't wait for the upcoming release of Deschutes in Kansas and Missouri.

Bourbon Barrel Quad (BBQ) by, Boulevard

This is it people, my personal favorite beer that I have tasted to this day.

When Bourbon Barrel Quad (BBQ) by, Boulevard is poured it fills the glass with an amber mixed with copper color with a thick 3 finger tan head which is slow to reside, and even when it does it leaves behind a beautiful lacing.

The smell is mix of tart cherries, bourbon, caramel, and then a slight woody smell.

Cherries is the first thing that takes your buds, then a bourbon flavor that is perhaps my favorite part. It then ends with a combination of a woody and boozy aftertaste.

The mouthfeel is creamy medium body that leaves you with a warm feeling.

Sol. by, Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery

What can I say about this beer, it's not very good at all. No flavor, pours and tastes like water.... but I'm lying here in bed, unable to sleep, and this is the only post with a picture already edited for it. 


It pours a golden color with no head from the painted 12 oz. bottle. The aroma is very light to no existent. Smells a little hoppy if anything.


Taste has a hint of citrus, with the inert lager taste that one can expect from these "popular" brands. The beer makes a great companion on the "how many beers can I drink in the night" game, but perhaps the beer should be put down those nights for something stronger. 

Double Chocolate Stout, by Young's Brewery

Perhaps the most popular chocolate stout out there. Young's pour black with caramel highlights when held toward the light.

There is a nice thick foamy head that is tan in color, and slow to reside.
There is a nice java taste followed by what else??? Chocolate of course.

A little to much carbonation to the beer leaving me feeling fuller than I actually am, but as the glass empties a nice lacing is left (as seen below)

Prototype Stout, by Weston Brewing Company

The beers that come out of Weston never get the best of ratings, in fact no alcohol that the small town produces ever gets reviewed to highly (i.e.  McCormick), but how I love going to O'Malley's and having a few of the locally brewed beers. 


A couple of months ago when I was there I had a sampler and out of the six beers I tried this Prototype Stout really stuck out. It was creamy and had a very strong chocolate taste that would rival Young's stout. I decided to take home a couple of pints which was labeled with a very cool industrial feel label (as seen below) 

A quick snapshot at the label.
The QR code is supposed to lead you to their blogspot if you are interested.

When poured from the pint bottle the malt and chocolate really caught the nose, but a bit of a metallic sent was mixed in, perhaps from a bottle disinfectant. The Stout was a pure black with a large tan head which left a good lacing. 




The taste was not quite as chocolaty from the bottle. The hops really take over the tastebuds along with the roasted grains, but the chocolate came in for a long-lasting aftertaste. 


Overall a fairly smooth stout which is hard to pass up when pitted against the rest of the Weston line-up.