Boulevard Brewings Bob's '47 Oktoberfest:
Greetings and salutations to all of you and welcome back.  Today we continue our little jaunt in the Oktoberfest world and this little pleasure cruise moves us up to the great little brewery of Boulevard and their take on the Oktoberfest Marzen: Bob’s 47 Oktoberfest.  The beer is named after their Master Brewer Bob Werkowitch who graduated the U.S. Brewer’s Academy in 1947.  Now I am quite fond of their Smokestack series that Boulevard puts out and their normal beers aren’t bad either, but I think we might of found their first big hiccup.  The beer pours a nice dark amber with a thin yet thick, off-white head and a bit more carbonation than most Marzen style beers.  The issues I have with this beer is with the nose of it, with the bulk of the nose being a slightly sour bread smell (not sourdough, unfortunately) with slight notes of caramel and hops and really, it’s not a smell that I particularly want in my beer or in my face as I try to enjoy my beer.  The taste is much like most Marzens of the past few days though the sweet raisin taste is gone and replaced my a more under ripe green grape taste and leaves a rather odd hop/grape aftertaste.  Not something I’d want to try again but I was excited going into it but, alas, it didn’t pan out.  Everyone is allowed a mulligan and Boulevard Brewing just got theirs.