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December 17 is the beginning of the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, which likely influenced early European Christmas traditions. Though there’s no particular pagan theme in mind, today’s Advent beer pick is Boulevard Brewing’s classic Nutcracker Ale, a hearty Midwestern winter warmer. Boulevard was founded in 1989 and celebrated its … Continue reading
Boulevard Brewing has issued an apology and refund announcement regarding their recently-released Chocolate Ale (a beer which generated the kind of intense interest in Kansas City that Deschutes The Abyss does in Bend and Three Floyds Dark Lord Imperial Stout does in Munster): This week, some post-release checks of Chocolate … Continue reading
The Christmas season is the traditional time (and setting) for the popular ballet The Nutcracker, and so today’s pick is, accordingly, Boulevard Brewing’s Nutcracker Ale: a rich, malty Winter Warmer that is 5.8% alcohol by volume. Boulevard describes it thusly: Nutcracker Ale is Boulevard’s holiday gift for real beer lovers. … Continue reading
Back in July I posted about the side-by-side tasting of the Deschutes Brewery and Boulevard Brewing collaboration beer, Conflux No. 2. Since then I’ve had the chance to pick up Deschutes’ version of the collaboration a couple more times in the bottle (I haven’t seen Boulevard’s bottled version here, and … Continue reading
Last night, post-OBF, I went down to the APEX Beer Bar in southeast Portland for the side-by-side tastings of the Deschutes Brewery and Boulevard Brewing collaboration beer—their White IPA (the Conflux series #2). Not only did I taste the beers side by side, I also had a chance to talk … Continue reading
This week Deschutes Brewery and Boulevard Brewing are introducing their collaboration ale—dubbed by Deschutes as Conflux No. 2—in a pair of release parties this week in Bend and Portland at their respective pubs. Tomorrow, the 26th, in fact, both running from 5 until 9pm. You might remember this beer as … Continue reading
The news came out yesterday that Deschutes Brewery and Boulevard Brewing Company will be brewing a collaboration beer; I posted the press release which has the details, but the gist is that they’ll be working together on a “White IPA” (a counterpoint to all those Black IPAs?): it “combines Boulevard’s … Continue reading