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

Double-Wide I.P.A.Double-Wide I.P.A.
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From:
Boulevard Brewing Co.
 
Missouri, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
8.5%
Score:
89
Avg:
3.96 | pDev: 11.11%
Reviews:
796
Ratings:
2,654
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Oct 15, 2021
Added:
Nov 17, 2007
Wants:
  109
Gots:
  370
The classic India Pale Ale is a traveler’s beer, aggressively hopped to withstand the long, hot ocean voyage to the British East Indies. Our Double-Wide I.P.A. also travels well, and is right at home in the most exotic ports of call of the Midwest. While this modern-day prairie schooner may not resemble a graceful sailing sloop, our liberal hopping regimen does make her virtually “twister-proof,” with toffee and caramel notes balancing out the lingering bitterness. Enjoy this beer fresh to best appreciate the complex blending of hop aromas, ranging from minty to citrusy, with subtle hints of pine.

71 IBU
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Ratings by MickeyD:
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Reviewed by MickeyD from Kansas

4.17/5  rDev +5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I poured this from a 12oz bottle into a clean tulip glass.

Appearance: Nice golden orange/brown when held to the light. Thick head of foam that stayed for a good amount of time. Lots of bubbles coming from the bottom. Great lacing.

Smell: Sweet hop smell with some malt/bread overtones.

Taste: initially I taste the hops but then you get that malty/bread taste. Slightly carbonated which wakes up your mouth.

Mouth feel: A beer with some muscle, definitely can taste that IPA hop but still balanced well with the malt. The beer leaves a nice after taste.

Overall: While IPAs are not my favorite type of beer I am learning to like them and this one makes it easy. For sure some hop action but still nicely balanced.
Feb 22, 2013
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Rated: 3.94 by LesDewitt4beer from Minnesota

Oct 15, 2021
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway

4.27/5  rDev +7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
750 ml corked and caged bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 8.5%. Hazy deep orange to amber colour, large off-white head. Delightful sweetish aroma of fruity American hops, notes of oranges. Very hoppy flavour on a solid malty base, notes of oranges again, the bitterness is distinct but not too extreme. A very fine beer!
Apr 04, 2021
 
Rated: 4 by bdlusa from Texas

Jun 25, 2019
 
Rated: 3.83 by Toynk from Illinois

Apr 01, 2019
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Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois

4.42/5  rDev +11.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Gorgeous murky orange.

Frothy white head; insane lacing.

Delicious rich mango jam nose. Before my first sip, I'm very excited.

Medium mouthfeel, leaning towards heavy.

The mango jam flavor is balanced with substantial but not overbearing malts; a truly unique and delicious DIPA. I look forward to having many more.
Mar 08, 2019
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Reviewed by iguanodon from Utah

3.16/5  rDev -20.2%
look: 5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
[Original rating 2012-09-02] Pours cloudy copper with a thick off white head that lasts. Aroma is...faint. I’m not smelling much at all. A little spent malt, not much hops aroma. Maybe a little fruit and straw if I use my imagination. Taste is well balanced, lots of malt, kind of sweet at first with a bitter finish. Alcohol is well hidden but it warms on the way down so you know it’s there. A solid DIPA but not the one I’d reach for if I had my pick, which I don’t because I live in Utah now.
Oct 03, 2018
 
Rated: 3.75 by brittanylicious from Indiana

Jun 10, 2018
 
Rated: 4.24 by jmurphy168 from Missouri

Jan 16, 2018
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont

3.99/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a super golden amber and leaves more of a slightly bronze looking colored body with a one and a half finger white foamy head that rises to a sort of rocky looking lumpiness that wants to overflow but nicely maintains a classic awesome sustained head that just hovers over top of the glass (wow, what a nice show); the aroma has an initial smell (actually smokey, but quickly goes away, unsure where that came from and unaware if that was intentional), anyways, it leads into a the "typical" DIPA smells of citrus and pine coming through in a nice sweet sort of way followed by a slight bitterness; the taste is mainly sweet (there’s an element that wants to be slightly bitter, but it really comes across mainly sweet through the citrus/pine aspects). A very citrus-like aftertaste, dry malty finish and comes across pretty combined - I like it; on the palate this one sits about a medium on the body with a semi-sessionable aspect to it (as far as any DIPA really can be), carbonation comes across like a good DIPA (there’s the harsh bittering pounding on the mouth and tongue but still not overdoing it just to let the malty aspects show their face); overall - I say this is a good DIPA that I would have again, good job Boulevard.
Jun 29, 2017
 
Rated: 4.5 by Jodio from Texas

Feb 06, 2017
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Reviewed by Misanthropy_Sipping from Nebraska

4.11/5  rDev +3.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Retired! (Chuckles) Oh, boy. Yeah. I know this one is retired and the one I found is definitely out of date. I can just make out the expiration date on the bottle and it appears to have "expired" sometime in June of 2013. So, this little fella is a little over the three year mark too far. I vaguely remember this beer fresh, I had one maybe a year before they pulled it. I remember thinking it was pretty good, I wasn't necessarily blown away but it was a memorable beer. A bit malty, a bit spicy, nicely bitter. But not in your face.

When I found this on a local grocers shelve, shuffled to the back, curiosity got the best of me. The Double-Wide, in a squeaky, pathetic voice was weeping, "Save me! Save me!"… And I was all like, "Alright." (shrugs)

So, without further adieu.

Look: Has a nice, deep amber, orange sort of color. A good frothy, deep cream color head to it that slowly dissipates and clings nicely to the glass walls. My only complaint is pretty mild. It has a lot of "stuff" just, hanging, fully suspended and motionless when left alone, floating in the beer. It is kind of strange. Though, slightly impressive because it is perfectly still… just hanging there, like a lava lamp suspended in motion. I'm beginning to trip out, man.

Smell: Wow. I am actually really surprised by this. For how old and out of date this little fella is, I get a hint of oxidation, a bit of smoke, and a bit of soapy hops. It has a dried orange peel sort of sent to it with an herbal pine that is most obvious. Do I sense, barleywine?

Taste: Yeah, that last comment sums it up. Barleywine. This double IPA has changed it's spots in my opinion. The hops are dead. There is a faint bitterness right at the back end but it is minimal. There is a fruity tea tone to it, I do get a bit of dried apricot, maybe a bit of dried apple as well. I also get a pine resin touch right after the initial fruitiness. The malt is well blended among the tea/fruit thing and bears a bit of oxidation with the light earthy, caramel taste. I've had barley wines that taste almost identical to this in so many ways. One that comes to mind is Old Foghorn Barleywine.

Feel: The feel is a perfect medium body. The carbonation is still good and helps crisp it up whereas without it I could see this becoming a very sticky and cloying mess. Very smooth at this point, a pinch oily.

Overall: Needless to say, I may be going back to this grocer to see if I can track down one last bottle that may have been shoved to the back. This is actually really good and probably more memorable than it was fresh. Irony of ironies. Of course, as I frequently mentioned, this beer seems to no longer have many notes of a double IPA. It has transformed into a barleywine. I like barleywines better. That is just my opinion. I'd say, if you see it, try it. Be amazed. Though I have my doubts that it will be easy anymore to find this on a shelf like I did. This beer has been retired for some time now. A few years at least at this point.
Nov 04, 2016
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Rated by OKCNittany from Oklahoma

4.28/5  rDev +8.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
from old notes
Oct 29, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by BrewskiBrandon from Missouri

Sep 17, 2016
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

3.46/5  rDev -12.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Exploding orange out the bottle, looks good except for the substantial amount of haze for style, had the dry hopping made up for it, all would be forgiven, but it wasn't. it was mostly bittering hops when you pulled and pulled at the nose.

Pine and grapefruit, its a big bitter dipa the likes of which we've seen over and over. Lemon, grapefruit, caramel unsweetened. Format is a little suspect, don't know why we need 750s of dipas. I mean, its good, not great.
Aug 22, 2016
 
Rated: 3.79 by BeerWithMike from Nebraska

Jun 06, 2016
 
Rated: 4.16 by aufie from Texas

May 26, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by Freeman132 from North Carolina

May 09, 2016
 
Rated: 4.24 by JordanlikesAles from Georgia

May 01, 2016
 
Rated: 3.55 by MrHolden from Texas

Mar 29, 2016
Double-Wide I.P.A. from Boulevard Brewing Co.
Beer rating: 89 out of 100 with 2654 ratings