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Fish Tale Leviathan Barleywine (Barrel Aged)

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Fish Tale Leviathan Barleywine (Barrel Aged) - Barley Wine

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Formerly brewed at Fish Brewing Company/Leavenworth Beers
Style: Barley Wine

Olympia, Washington USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
2614.07/5.04.04/5.0Winter10%98.3Snifter
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Commercial Description:
With its assertive hop bitterness, delicious malt flavor and long, dry, hoppy finish, Leviathan Barleywine is a brew of mythic proportions. Dark amber, rich, and malty with a most very hearty alcohol strength, it is capable of soothing the savage beast in us all. Leviathan rises out of Pale, Carastan, and Chocolate malts with monstrous additions of Chinook hops for bitterness and Cascade hops for flavor and aroma. This vintage ale finishes quite dry after a long maturation period. As it comes of age in the keg, subtle flavors of sherry, pear, and roasted nuts will develop.
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 Papsoe (14642), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/515/20
Apr 14, 2006  
(Bottle 75 cl) Hazy light brown with a handsome, creamy and rather stable, beige head. Fresh, caramelish head. Solid, full body with lots of caramel and some lightly perfumy, fruity notes. Lightly hoppy finish. Tasted at the Oklahoma Beer tasting March 06 hosted by mjames and lilannie. 250306


oldstock23 (11), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/517/20
Apr 13, 2006  
Vintage 2002. Served in a Duchesse De Bourgogne goblet. In retrospect, the glass was quite appropriate. Oxidation is very apparant. Nose is that of caramel and sour fruits. Very similar in taste to a Belgian sour brown ale...it really reminds me of a Liefman’s Goudenband. I’m a fan. I wish this wasn’t retired as I’d love to drink one approaching its peak.


 peter (385), Dallas, Texas, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/516/20
Apr 4, 2006  
Nice head, faded fast. Nose of apple and oak, some grape alt beir notes. Warm mouth has a hoppy cabernet flavour, fruitiness.


 PhillyBeer2112 (2084), Orange Park, Florida, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Mar 25, 2006  
2001, Batch #3, Sampled in 2006. Cloudy brown-amber, firm head. Big oak aroma. Plummy and figgy with some oxidized sherry notes. Small turpentine and acrid notes. Sweet and light fruit. Some pepper hops on the finish.


 Pailhead (2572), Allen Park, Michigan, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20
Mar 6, 2006  
Bottle (11/2/02, Batch 4) : Courtesy of DarkElf via trade. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, toffee, and hints of fruit. Vinuous aromas are there too, but I didn’t notice until I actually tasted the strong vinuous flavors. Initially pours a cloudy reddish-brown, but as you get towards the bottom of the bottom, it just becomes a cloudy brown. Small off-white head. Quick caramel and toffee is quickly overtaken by a strong vinuous flavor that contains moderate sourness. Lots of woodiness in the finish. Even though this isn’t bourbon barrel aged, there is a bourbon character to the flavor. Light vanilla lingers throughout in the background. A tad thin.


 Kinz (2179), Glen Allen, Virginia, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/518/20
Feb 19, 2006  
2001, Batch 3, big thanks to The Beer God for this one! Deep brown, hint of amber, surprisingly actually had some head after all these years. Huge aromas of caramel and dark fruit. The mouth is filled with raisins, currants, molasses, caramel, and some piney remnants of hops. The finish has an oaky, winey note to it. Fantastic. Sampled at the first Richmond "gathering."


 maniac (2628), Richmond, Virginia, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/517/20
Feb 18, 2006  
Batch 3 from 2001. Courtesy of The Beer God. Hazy brown color with a Thin creamy light brown head. Aroma of molassas and raisins. Ra


 GreenDragon (213), Richmond, Virginia, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/518/20
Feb 18, 2006    Updated: Feb 19, 2006
Pours a cloudy dark brown with a pretty pale yellow head with hints of green. Strong aroma of fruits - figs, caramel, molassesand malts. Strong sweet taste with lots of plum, apricots and strong prune notes. Very nice body, thick and strong. Courtesy of The Beer God



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