Boulevard "Reverb"

Hello friends!! First of all, it's great to see you after more than six months! Wow, a lot has changed for me but this is a beer blog and not a Jay Blog... So on to the beer shall we!!

Pilsner, a style that to the palate is so incredibly simple and void of anything characteristic.... Yet brewers must get it right which I'm assuming is an arduous task. Throw on top of that the "Imperial" moniker and you have yourself a bit of a conundrum... How does the brewer pack imperial flavor into the pilsner style without just creating some kind of light bodied malt liquor?

Reverb does this almost without question! Smell is big biscuit and slightly phenolic and on the palate it's all malt with a full, thick and wet mouth feel! This beer ends as it begins... An amazing pilsner stepped up like 11 notches... 11 for the musical reference on the label!! 

As a former record store geek I greatly appreciate the rock and roll "Spinal Tap" reference!

I shall digress now.... Boulevard are making some of the best, most consistent portfolios of craft beer today. The recent merger between Boulevard and Duvel Moortgat has caused some all Americans to throw their hands up and write off Boulevard forever... To those folks I say, please reconsider!! I'm not sure you're aware of how much amazing beer you're going to miss!! :)

As always, thanks for reading and three cheers to the brewers who are making all these great brews!

Jay Metzler