Fish Tale Anniversary Ale - 10²

Brewed by Fish Brewing Company/Leavenworth Beers
Style: Barley Wine
Olympia, Washington USA

Serve in Snifter

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Thanks to t0rin0 for sharing this good tick. Pours a hazy medium brown color with a small light tan head. Caramel and citrusy/piney hop aroma, fairly standard for the barleywine style (which I thought it was, although it’s classified as an American Strong Ale on here). Flavor has a caramel malt base and a decent oakiness to it, but as the 100 IBUs suggest, the hops are the star of the show here. Citrusy and piney with considerable bitterness, an above average but not great hop profile. Fairly full-bodied, resinous, and sticky on the mouthfeel. A nice one overall, and it’s always good to pour something -bal aged down my gullet. Would drink again if I weren’t a ticker.

22 oz. bottle, pours dark golden amber with a small beige head Aroma of pineapple, grapefruit, mango and citrus hops - grapefruit is most dominant. Flavour of sweet caramel, candied sugar, citrus hops - very hop heavy, with not much malt to back. At first, it’s very enjoyable, though after a full glass, the flavours don’t mesh very well. Cloying sweetness and pungent bitterness not balanced by malt.

22 oz. bottle- Pours dark ruby red with a nice thin receding to a collar head, lacework is exceptional. The aroma is citrusy piney hops ( is this a Barley wine or an Imperial IPA), damn that smells good. The flavor is like a dark roasted Imperial IPA, no heavy malty pungent flavors that you typically get in a barleywine. The flavor definitely has a woody oaky flavor from the barrel aging, I’m just not sure this is actually a barleywine, maybe that’s why Ratebeer put it under the American strong ale category. Ignoring the type of beer it is, this is one great brew. I have never been a fan of Fish tale beers, they are boring and seemed to lack quality, but I hear that a new company has bought them out (a wine company nonetheless), that was obviously a great move, because this is a great beer.

Pours a cranberry color with a tint of brown. Thin off white head with lacing and legs. Aroma of sweet roasted maltt, cherries, pungent hops with notes of mango (and other tropical fruit) and grass, slight alcohol. Smells great. Medium body, a little thin on taste profile for a barleywine. Roasted sweet malt backbone, thin, berries, strong hops, grassy and very bitter (100 IBU’s) finishes quick and dry.

22 oz. bottle from the brewery. It was dollars cheaper than here in the greater Seattle area. Nice fluffy head sits on top of a dark reddish brown, diaphanous beer. Nice bouquet of hosp with a bit of booze poking through. The hops are quite pungent. I’m getting an nice grapefruit, citrus hop aroma. The booze is a bit intrusive in the sense that it gets in the way of smelling the fresh hops that have yet to fade away. The malty sweetness doesn’t really help because this beer still has a lot in the way of hops. The description says oak was used; well, I not so sure about that because I smell no oak. Wow, this has a nice, fresh hop flavor. Wow, this is actually testing my taste buds a bit. The bittering hops are quite insane. The booze kicks in a bit too much -- that is, I’m getting a bit of sour booze flavor. Again, no oak, flavor (if they even used it). The hops are by far impressive, but the hops and alcohol are all that I’m getting. Fairly nice brew, and this is something I’d like to consume aged. Rather thin on the texture, but still quite nice.

Huge fresh hop aroma. Overpowering to say the least. Pours red-brown with thick foamy tan head. Laces well, and clear. With 100 IBUs I was a bit skeptical of its drinkability, but after letting it warm up, it has smoothed out as much as I would expect. Serious hop flavor. Major Left Coast take on a barley wine style beer, much like Avery Hog Heaven. I would call it a Triple IPA (TIPA). Fruit, caramel, hops, pine, yet a very clean aftertaste. Strange I don’t taste any wood? It may just be that the bittering has overpowered any latent wood flavor. I am very interested to see how this gem ages! Tasted from the bomber at 55F.

pours a clear dark brown with a medium size foamy beige head, and great lacing. smell is of hops, malt, caramel, citrus, and some floral in the back. taste is creamy, hops, malt, roasted toffee, and some nuts, ends smooth and nicely bitter.

I wish I could find more of this beer. I really do think it actually put years back onto my life! I can still taste it, yeah. Thanks Fish Tale.

From scrizz via trade. Poured dark copper with a creamy off-white head and good lacing. The aroma was pine, pencil shavings and light caramel sweetness. The flavor was resiny pine, citrus and some sweeter caramel. Fairly well balanced with a medium body and a dry finish. Tasty.

Draft at Brouwer’s Hard Liver 8. Poured a deep mahogany with red hints and a small off white head. The nose was toffee, caramel malt, oak, vanilla, hints of chocolate, lots of hops, and alcohol. The taste was very hoppy with a sweet malt character, toffee, chocolate, and a bitter aftertaste. The palate was chewy, and thick. A good AMS. I’m excited for trying my Batch #2 from 2000 Fish Leviathon BW from my cellar.