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Love Child No. 3
Boulevard Brewing Co.
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- From:
- Boulevard Brewing Co.
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 95
- Avg:
- 4.26 | pDev: 8.22%
- Reviews:
- 121
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Saturday at 07:12 AM
- Added:
- Apr 26, 2013
- Wants:
- 99
- Gots:
- 234
SCORE
95
World-Class
95
World-Class
Notes:
Oak barrels were used to age the majority of beer used for Love Child No. 3—with beer aged from 16 months to nearly six years. Another portion of the beer spent 11 months in stainless tanks, souring on Lactobacillus. While very tart, the sourness is short-lived and the beer finishes dry with a trace of oak.
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.88/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Bottle from brewers haven. Reddish brown in color, little to no head. Smooth yet sour ale, cidery, wine-like notes in the nose and taste. No adjuuncts.
Saturday at 07:12 AM
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.28/5 rDev -23%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.28/5 rDev -23%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Was trying to crack some bottles with dust on them at the end of 2021. This is one of those bottles. Looks purchased in May, 2013.
Pours a brown color. Might have some dark orange/red running through it. Flimsy head. Off white/beige, 1/6". The aroma is an acetic acid vinegar, dark cherry, dark oak/walnut like wood and brown malt. Its like equal parts oud bruin and wild ale it seems.
The taste pushes in a better direction, light dark cherry notes, the wood picks up, but there is also a booziness to it. I don't like my sours around the double digit abv line and this one comes dangerously close. Brings the sensation of a feel of higher than usual wild ale bitterness too. Vinegar and red wine like cooking sherry notes. I'm thinking this one was better years ago. Also didn't find it to be a dry back end either. Hint of leather and balsamic.
I dunno man. When I drop $20 on a beer, I want it to be better than the majority of $2-4 beers I buy, but alas, this was not.
Mar 31, 2022Pours a brown color. Might have some dark orange/red running through it. Flimsy head. Off white/beige, 1/6". The aroma is an acetic acid vinegar, dark cherry, dark oak/walnut like wood and brown malt. Its like equal parts oud bruin and wild ale it seems.
The taste pushes in a better direction, light dark cherry notes, the wood picks up, but there is also a booziness to it. I don't like my sours around the double digit abv line and this one comes dangerously close. Brings the sensation of a feel of higher than usual wild ale bitterness too. Vinegar and red wine like cooking sherry notes. I'm thinking this one was better years ago. Also didn't find it to be a dry back end either. Hint of leather and balsamic.
I dunno man. When I drop $20 on a beer, I want it to be better than the majority of $2-4 beers I buy, but alas, this was not.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.72/5 rDev -12.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.72/5 rDev -12.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
750 ml bottle, probably from Vinmonopolet Kvadrat. ABV is 9.5%. Hazy orange to brown colour, moderate off-white head. Lovely aroma of brettanomyces / farmhouse, lemons, oak and bourbon. Sour / acidic flavour, red wine vinegar and lemons galore, also hints of oak and bourbon - an unusual combination. This must be the "whiskey sour" of the beer world.
Apr 04, 2021
Reviewed by buschbeer from Ohio
4.59/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.59/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
750 ml bottle
Served in a Boulevard Smokestack tulip glass
This beer pours a deep rusty hue with some blood orange highlights. It is topped with less than an inch of tan head that leaves no lacing.
It has a great sour aroma. Tart cherry comes to mind. It has vinous and funky notes.
The taste is very sour which I love. Tart fruit flavors coat my tongue. Funk and light vinegar follow. I love it.
Medium bodied with a dry mouthfeel
This is a fantastic sour. I am enjoying every sip.
Nov 30, 2019Served in a Boulevard Smokestack tulip glass
This beer pours a deep rusty hue with some blood orange highlights. It is topped with less than an inch of tan head that leaves no lacing.
It has a great sour aroma. Tart cherry comes to mind. It has vinous and funky notes.
The taste is very sour which I love. Tart fruit flavors coat my tongue. Funk and light vinegar follow. I love it.
Medium bodied with a dry mouthfeel
This is a fantastic sour. I am enjoying every sip.
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
3.84/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
2014 vintage; drank 2/5/15 @ Fischman's.
Murky orange/red rust appearance.
Small off-white head; minimal lace.
Mildly tart strawberry nose.
Medium thin mouthful.
Tasty but SUPER tart strawberry flavor; puckering but still enjoyable. Sour heads would freak...
May 05, 2019Murky orange/red rust appearance.
Small off-white head; minimal lace.
Mildly tart strawberry nose.
Medium thin mouthful.
Tasty but SUPER tart strawberry flavor; puckering but still enjoyable. Sour heads would freak...
Reviewed by wedge from North Carolina
4.13/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.13/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Pours a deep burgundy color capped with a sticky layer of beige cream. Woody, spicy aromas blend with earthy juicy cherries, tobacco, funky straw, caramel, and faint balsamic vinegar. Sour cherry and wood flavors, cider vinegar, and a juicy tartness along the sides of the tongue. Any bourbon notes are really subtle - just a flash of leathery vanilla - mostly it's the barrel woodiness that comes through. Nimble medium body with a pretty hefty acidity. Still good!
Jan 18, 2018
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.22/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.22/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured into a tulip, the appearance was a nice looking mahogany color with a finger's worth of foamy white head that slid off at a good pace. Sliding lace.
The aroma had some black currants, light lime, herbal to earthiness. Driftwood, light funk, and a touch of floral.
The flavor took the prior mentioned aromas to boot - somewhat sweetly with that funk settling in dryly with the driftwood pouncing about. Light vanilla. Strolled nicely together into the aftertaste.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sipping sort of quality about it due to the funk grip along my tongue, wanted to make it a bit sour but honestly, not too much. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, pretty nice AWA, I'd have again.
Jun 09, 2017The aroma had some black currants, light lime, herbal to earthiness. Driftwood, light funk, and a touch of floral.
The flavor took the prior mentioned aromas to boot - somewhat sweetly with that funk settling in dryly with the driftwood pouncing about. Light vanilla. Strolled nicely together into the aftertaste.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sipping sort of quality about it due to the funk grip along my tongue, wanted to make it a bit sour but honestly, not too much. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, pretty nice AWA, I'd have again.
Reviewed by SHODriver from North Carolina
4.25/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: Poured into a Duvel tulip to a deep brown topped by a finger and a half of dense light tan head that slowly fades to a small pool and leaves minimal lacing
S: Smells of sour cherries, funk and oak with some slight sweetness. Smells a little like oude tart
T: Taste is tart cherry up front with some funk and oak, slight sweetness before more sourness comes in followed by more funk. Swallow is sour cherry and funky oak with some lingering caramel sweetness that does battle with the lingering acidity
M: This beer has a slight mouthfeel with a medium body. Carbonation is soft but adequate and the beer has a dry finish.
O: Overall this one is a great example of the style. Nice complexity with a good bit of sourness and funk. This one doesn't have any traces of oxidation going on so it may have had a little more time left in it. Definitely glad to have had it.
Feb 21, 2017S: Smells of sour cherries, funk and oak with some slight sweetness. Smells a little like oude tart
T: Taste is tart cherry up front with some funk and oak, slight sweetness before more sourness comes in followed by more funk. Swallow is sour cherry and funky oak with some lingering caramel sweetness that does battle with the lingering acidity
M: This beer has a slight mouthfeel with a medium body. Carbonation is soft but adequate and the beer has a dry finish.
O: Overall this one is a great example of the style. Nice complexity with a good bit of sourness and funk. This one doesn't have any traces of oxidation going on so it may have had a little more time left in it. Definitely glad to have had it.
Reviewed by Davepoolesque from Massachusetts
3.92/5 rDev -8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.92/5 rDev -8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Redish brown in appearance. Tart. Sour upfront but mellows out into a nice oaky finish. Malt, cherry skins and dark fruit. Earthy. Short finish. Pretty good. Probably a bit past its prime.
Aug 17, 2016
Reviewed by svenness from Arizona
4.46/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
2013 bottle, best by 02-2015
L: Dark amber, reddish, clear, thin head
S/T: Cherry, currant, vanilla, toasted malt, funk, vinegar
F: Tart, medium-light bodied, lingering acidity and a little sweetness on the finish
O: Complex, fruity and tart with a little funk, good stuff. Prefer this over the 2015 I had earlier this year.
Jan 08, 2016L: Dark amber, reddish, clear, thin head
S/T: Cherry, currant, vanilla, toasted malt, funk, vinegar
F: Tart, medium-light bodied, lingering acidity and a little sweetness on the finish
O: Complex, fruity and tart with a little funk, good stuff. Prefer this over the 2015 I had earlier this year.
Love Child No. 3 from Boulevard Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
95 out of
100 with
908 ratings
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