Boulder Dam Brewing Company
Boulder City, NV
Fri. 11/23/07, 12noon
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Basic no-frills brewpub in Boulder's historic district.
House Brews:
Powder Monkey Pilsner
Hell's Hole Hefeweisen
Smashin' Pumpkin Ale
High Scaler IPA (J)
Reclamation Amber
Black Canyon Stout (B)
Black Canyon Stout: Deep chocolate color, opaque, tiny film of a head, clearly not nitrous-tapped. Mildly bitter aroma. Body is far too light for the style. Next to no mouthfeel - just cold. Flavor isn't bad - this would be good as a float like they sell, but for a microbrewed stout, it's annoyingly lacking in depth and complexity. No real finish, it mostly disappears down the throat with the liquid. It's not horrible, but there's nothing remarkable about it either. 7.7
High Scaler IPA: Excuse me, you call this an IPA? Somebody tell the brewer that just because you throw extra hops in a beer does not make it an IPA. The beer is clearly brewed as a hefeweisen. Not much of a head. The body is decent. It tastes like a fairly weak hefe until the swallow when the hops suddenly show up. It never occurred to me to make a hoppy hefeweisen. To be honest, after drinking this, it still wouldn't occur to me. 7.6
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