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Beer of the Series 4.6: A team that apparently won the World Series

allthesamesong.com

I don't actually have anything against the team Detroit is playing this series. I really don't! I guess part of it is jealousy, though. The Tigers won four straight division titles, played in the ALCS three straight years, and have appeared in the World Series twice in 10 years.

The team they're playing? Well, they were a strike away from being eliminated 24 times in the last two seasons, scored 177 runs after the seventh inning last postseason, and somehow caused their opponents to be possessed by the undead spirits of Steves Blass and Sax (note: no actual research was done for this because it would make me way too angry). They took the whole "we'll suck for a few years and rebuild" thing to a new level in that they were worse than awful before becoming the luckiest team possible last year. I'm going to start throwing things...

OK, I'll just start talking about beer. I've profiled Boulevard twice before, and I could easily profile them several more times before I start repeating beers. As I've said, they're one of the better craft brewers in the country, and even as more breweries appear on the landscape, they still reign supreme in the plains. This series, we'll look at one of their more famous offerings: the Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale

This was the first Boulevard beer I ever tried, and it still holds up high on my list of favorite beers. It's a bright, complex beer with a unique history (only coming out the way it does being brewed in the seventh tank of the brewery despite consistent recipes). You'll get notes of grapefruit, wheat, pine, and even a bit of licorice in the front of the beer, a hoppy bite in the middle, and a peppery clean finish at the end that stands alone or goes well with chicken and roast pork dishes. It's sold in a wine bottle format, and at 8.5% ABV and 38 IBUs, one of them ought to be enough.

Boulevard Brewing Company is located in Kansas City, Missouri.

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