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Harvest Dance
Boulevard Brewing Co.
- From:
- Boulevard Brewing Co.
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- Wheatwine
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 10.42%
- Reviews:
- 309
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 03, 2023
- Added:
- Oct 30, 2009
- Wants:
- 117
- Gots:
- 140
John Barleycorn is memorialized in English folk tradition as the personification of the barley plant, sacrificed at harvest time and then reborn as beer or ale. Our Harvest Dance Wheat Wine is a celebration of John’s Midwestern cousin, wheat. Beginning with a large portion of wheat malt, we add an equally generous helping of Hallertau and Citra hops and age the ale on both French and American oak. The result is a big, warming burst of tropical fruit flavors, highlighted by subtle wine-like notes, and rounding slowly to a long, dry, oaky finish.
23 IBU
23 IBU
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Ratings by TexIndy:
Reviewed by TexIndy from Texas
4.45/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Poured from a 750ml corked and caged bottle into a snifter. Opened with an explosive pop. Batch 1-2009 and best by 10/10 on back label. My first wheatwine. It was a cloudy orange color with floaters. Massive carb streams. It had a 4 finger head that very slowly whittled down to a constant foam cap fed by the carb streams. Great lacing.
The aroma was very spicy with layers of fruit, yeast, oak. Very Belgian and saison-like. Really like it. A good swirl and sniffer. I got a lot more spice than fruit in mine while several others described it the other way. Not sure why the difference. The taste followed the aroma and was peppery spice with good fruit and sweet malt base. The spice adds great flavor but doesn't overpower or lead to a dry or overly spiced finish. Mouthfeel was crisp with too much carbonation which led to constant burbing to make room. Over carbonated but it's batch #1 so they'll work out the kinks.
Overall, an excellent beer and another solid Smokestack offering. My first wheatwine so can't say how it compares to others in style but if this is a good representation then I've found another style that I love. Highly recommend. Rotation - avail here in TX. Believe it's rotating in the series and not a permanent member. Gonna try at least one more fresh and then get another to cellar.
Dec 22, 2009The aroma was very spicy with layers of fruit, yeast, oak. Very Belgian and saison-like. Really like it. A good swirl and sniffer. I got a lot more spice than fruit in mine while several others described it the other way. Not sure why the difference. The taste followed the aroma and was peppery spice with good fruit and sweet malt base. The spice adds great flavor but doesn't overpower or lead to a dry or overly spiced finish. Mouthfeel was crisp with too much carbonation which led to constant burbing to make room. Over carbonated but it's batch #1 so they'll work out the kinks.
Overall, an excellent beer and another solid Smokestack offering. My first wheatwine so can't say how it compares to others in style but if this is a good representation then I've found another style that I love. Highly recommend. Rotation - avail here in TX. Believe it's rotating in the series and not a permanent member. Gonna try at least one more fresh and then get another to cellar.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
750 ml bottle from Boise Co-op. Pours out with a beautiful fluffy head, cloudy amber body with lots of particulates. Nice bready aroma, thick and heady. Taste comes out stronger, still bready, but with a lot of body behind it. Smoother than the average BW, ABV hides well in the background. Burn comes on very late, in the stomach.
Jun 03, 2023Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
4.09/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Yellow/orange color; very murky.
Huge white head; spotty lacing.
Pineapple & grapefruit in the nose; wow!
Medium mouthfeel.
Pineapple & grapefruit are joined by wheat & booze in the taste.
Not as mindblowing as the nose, or the draft version; still tastes like a delicious IIPA. Worthy.
Apr 01, 2019Huge white head; spotty lacing.
Pineapple & grapefruit in the nose; wow!
Medium mouthfeel.
Pineapple & grapefruit are joined by wheat & booze in the taste.
Not as mindblowing as the nose, or the draft version; still tastes like a delicious IIPA. Worthy.
Reviewed by HopsAreDaMan from Missouri
4.09/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
UPDATED: AUG 5, 2015 Poured a frothy, off-white head (Lots of it), clear and golden in color ; strong aroma of wheat/bread; a lot going on in the flavor department, too much for my untrained palate to unravel, but I did get sweet, some sour, and definitely fruity; medium body, fizzy. Interesting beer, and I am glad I tried it, and there may be much in it that is lost on me, and, although this beer was a little too much like champagne for my tastes, EDIT this is something I would consider buying again, because, after tasting it again a few days later, I am impressed at how sweet it is, and how much I like it (although I don’t care for the tartness in it). I am upping the rating.
Jun 13, 2017Reviewed by mothmanscott from Georgia
4.08/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a glowing, almost clear coppery amber, swimming with fine particulates amongst rising effervescence, producing a huge, 3+ fingers (so rapidly developing as to be difficult to pour), billowy, off-white, long lived head that leaves chunky motes, streaks & wisps of lace. Aroma is wheat, a wide assortment of sweet fruity esters: apple, banana, cherry, lemon, melon, orange, peach, pineapple and possibly others I can't define. I also detect some grapefruit & faint pine. Taste is sweet, heavy to wheat with some soda biscuit hints, yeast, fruity notes are numerous but are not as diverse as in the nose: heavy to orange, with fainter lemon, apple, peach & pineapple. Finishes semi-sweet, with a vinous dryness & some pepper, but more heavily to alcohol, spice (the alcohol portion of which is probably responsible for the dryness). Aftertaste is fruity, alcohol spice & bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium-heavy bodied with high carbonation, thick with chewy creaminess, alcohol warmth & spice. Many of the reviews I have read state that the alcohol is well hidden but I must respectfully disagree as I can detect it not only as warmth in the mouth & gut but also in the spiciness & bitterness that it produces.
Apr 01, 2017Reviewed by zillarunner from Illinois
4.85/5 rDev +20.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.85/5 rDev +20.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
It's smoother than a baby's bottom. Another awesome beer. John Barleycorn would be proud (listen to the Traffic Version).
This is one of the beers we like to finish with.
Oct 17, 2016This is one of the beers we like to finish with.
Reviewed by hman43 from North Carolina
3.87/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.87/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Look: It pours dark golden with a fluffy slightly off white head.
Smell: It has aromas of citrus highlighted by orange, a wheat profile with citrus fruit, vinous (white wine), and oak aromas.
Taste: There are tropical fruit flavors, wheat, vinous (white wine) and oak. The combination of flavors is very complex and works well together.
Feel: It has a chewy feel, not as heavy as traditional as expected. It has alcohol warming with a dry finish.
Overall, it is a unique favorable beer complex in aromas and tastes that is slow drinking and quite tasty.
Jun 11, 2016Smell: It has aromas of citrus highlighted by orange, a wheat profile with citrus fruit, vinous (white wine), and oak aromas.
Taste: There are tropical fruit flavors, wheat, vinous (white wine) and oak. The combination of flavors is very complex and works well together.
Feel: It has a chewy feel, not as heavy as traditional as expected. It has alcohol warming with a dry finish.
Overall, it is a unique favorable beer complex in aromas and tastes that is slow drinking and quite tasty.
Harvest Dance from Boulevard Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
831 ratings
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