Boulevard Zon

With the summer brew season approaching its end, I find myself enjoying as many summer styles as possible. My latest excursion was Boulevard's Zon, the Kansas City Brewery's summer belgian wheat.

I had expected the usual orange flavor one comes to expect from a traditional belgian. Boulevard however, offers one of the more interesting twists I've tasted on this kind of seasonal. Claiming to offer subtle tastes of coriander, orange peel, and other traditional ingredients, Zon can best be described as tangy.

The ingredients blended together well making it difficult to separate this beer into distinct flavors. Instead, Zon had a very balanced tang to it that came across as very lemony. It also attacks your taste buds in multiple waves. The wheat sits on the center of your tongue while the lemon tang spreads throughout the rest of your mouth. The citrus also leaves the roof of your mouth tingling.

In the end, I'd say this belgian wheat is a good beer, but far from great. It holds its chill very well from start to finish which makes it an excellent choice to sit on the back porch while watching the sun fade away. Which is a good thing for this brew in particular considering it's overly acidic taste makes it a sipping beer to begin with.

Boulevard Zon, 7 mugs out of 10.