Sunday Night Suds - Boulevard Flora Obscura

This week's Sunday Night Suds looks at Boulevard Flora Obscura.

As can be seen from the label, Boulevard Brewery explains that this is a dry hopped porter. As the term was not familiar to me, I went to the notes from Boulevard which explain that:

Flora Obscura, literally dark flower, features massive dry-hopping, with Simcoe, Cascade, Amarillo, Mosaic and Galaxy hops over a robust porter base composed of two-row pale malt, two varieties of caramel malt, raw wheat and chocolate malt. Originally born as a test beer for our Tours & Rec Center, Flora Obscura explores the interplay of hops suggestive of orange, grapefruit and tropical fruit flavors with rich chocolate and espresso notes provided by roasted malts.

I liked this beer very much, but it was not like any Porter that I had ever tried, other than the coloring. This Porter was much more piney than I am used to and the fruit was also surprising. The beer also was a bit thinner than I was expecting, but none of these traits were unpleasant and it went well with the bison burgers we had it with.

Boulevard Flora Oscura is under the Kosher Supervision of the Va'ad of Kansas City, but the bottle I purchased did not have the certification mark on the label. I was able to confirm that this will be on an upcoming LOC which will iyh be published by the Vaad of KC soon. The prior list can be found on the list of kosher certified beers on the Vaad of KC website (https://vaadkc.org/boulevard-brewing-company-kosher-beer).

To see what the experts on Beer Advocate think about this brew, please follow this link - http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/423/215194.

As always, please remember to drink responsibly and to never waste good beer unless there is no designated driver.

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