Coffee Ale
Boulevard Brewing Co.

Coffee AleCoffee Ale
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From:
Boulevard Brewing Co.
 
Missouri, United States
Style:
American Strong Ale
ABV:
9.3%
Score:
89
Avg:
4 | pDev: 10%
Reviews:
105
Ratings:
519
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Apr 04, 2021
Added:
Mar 21, 2013
Wants:
  24
Gots:
  53
Neighbors for nearly twenty years, Boulevard Brewing Company and The Roasterie share a passion for making extraordinary beverages. In Coffee Ale, our two celebrated brewing traditions come together in a long-awaited collaboration. Ethiopian Sidamo from Africa’s Great Rift Valley has been carefully blended with rye, oats, and malted barley, and spiced with Perle and Styrian Golding hops. The delightfully fragrant beer presents a glowing, tawny-amber hue. The clean, crisp acidity of the air-roasted coffee mingles with malt on the palate, lingering faintly in a subtly sweet finish.

26 IBU
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Ratings by smakawhat:
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Reviewed by Smakawhat from Maryland

3.36/5  rDev -16%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Poured from the bottle into a large snifter glass.

Huge head. Massive. Very swiss cheese and foamy on appearance, but no matter how you slice it, it just comes up large and dominating. Ochre light brown, with lots of retention it will just not go away. Body is a nice muted reddish brown, kind of dull slightly. Opaque. Aggressive but way too much head, still waiting to smell and drink this thing.

Nose though is pretty solid, if a little muted. Muted coffee with some fruit like strawberry esters it seems. Some light cream and vanilla, just very downplayed though. Pretty solid though and also nicely balanced. A little bit of cola sweetness and flatness though.

Mouthfeel is a little wet, and just moderately carbonated in feel it seems, it's the first thing I notice and it's not the palate. The palate does come out with some light roast, more like a brown ale, and slightly toasty and nutty. Muted coffee but only on the swallow and hardly detectable. Nice fruity ester quality on the finish and some chewy character a bit.

Overall though I am just not feeling this one from a brewery that I really enjoy a good portion of their lineup from. It has very little coffee presence and just feels a little lifeless.
Jul 31, 2013
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway

3.27/5  rDev -18.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
750 ml corked & caged bottle in the Smokestack Series, from Vinmonopolet. ABV is 9.3%. BB date 01/06/2014, Deep brown colour, moderate off-white to beige head. Aroma of malts and coffee, hints of chocolate and some fruity hops. Malty flavour with strong notes of coffee, a bit too much coffee for me. Some acidity, again hints of fruity hops.
Apr 04, 2021
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Rated by pathman from Ohio

4.5/5  rDev +12.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
05/17/20 bottle @ home (best by 10/2013; cellared @ 53F since purchase)
May 17, 2020
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Reviewed by cubsfan212223 from Illinois

4.1/5  rDev +2.5%
look: 3 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Found this at a local liquor store for 6.99 and said why not. Then I saw the date on it when I got home and that it is over 5 years old. Had low expectations being that it is over 5 years old but was plesently surprised. Smooth and great coffee flavor. Will buy more if I'm in the area again!
Mar 19, 2019
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Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois

4.18/5  rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Drank 3/26/14 on draft @ Fischman's.

Murky brown poop color.

Khaki head; decent lace.

Mild chocolate & coffee nose.

Thick mouthfeel.

Tasty, smooth coffee flavor; way better than most iced coffee. A nice sipper for spring or fall.
Dec 30, 2016
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

3.91/5  rDev -2.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
So a little backstory to this beer, I purchased it in early 2013, but it was firmly stashed in a part of the cellar that I rarely go into, yadda yadda, it wasn't found until the end of summer 2016.

I thought, oh no, conventional wisdom is that adjuncts like coffee fall apart quickly. This is just gonna be a mess of a beer, green bell pepper and all those other tired cliches people throw out because it says to say that if you want your BJCP cicerone homie stuff.

Anyways, it poured brown and red, small lighter brown head 1/2". Aroma still kicked a respectable amount of coffee. Sure enough, plenty of coffee in the taste as well, it wasn't hot, plenty smooth, minorly hopped to stay out of the way. Carbonation was spot on and oxidation was not really present. Anyways, long story short, this was a damn good beer unintentionally aged almost 3.5 years! Coffee was plenty strong and present!
Dec 21, 2016
 
Rated: 3.87 by drstalker from Illinois

Sep 03, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by BuckeyeBeers from Ohio

May 29, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by Freeman132 from North Carolina

May 09, 2016
 
Rated: 3.9 by crow from Illinois

Dec 17, 2015
 
Rated: 4.01 by kingmaker from Louisiana

Dec 03, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by joeroma5 from Massachusetts

Aug 26, 2015
 
Rated: 4.05 by Poloplaya from Illinois

Jun 04, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by GallowsThief from Florida

Apr 19, 2015
 
Rated: 4.1 by Mineo from New York

Mar 27, 2015
 
Rated: 3.84 by lefty418 from Illinois

Mar 01, 2015
 
Rated: 4.11 by DrewSimm from Illinois

Feb 19, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by nathanmiller from New York

Feb 12, 2015
Coffee Ale from Boulevard Brewing Co.
Beer rating: 89 out of 100 with 519 ratings