Fish Tale Leviathan Barleywine (Barrel Aged)

Formerly brewed at Fish Brewing Company/Leavenworth Beers
Style: Barley Wine
Olympia, Washington USA

Poured a tawny color with a thin off white head. Big aroma of cabernet wine, caramel, oak, and dark fruit. Malty flavors with with a semi-dry bitter finish. Medium bodied.

2001 bottle. dark ruby rust color, cloudy. tannish/red clay colored head. vinuous notes. slight vanilla and bourbon. flavor like armagnac, mild but present alcohol. lively carbonation, dryish aftertaste.

Bottle: Dirty caramel brown with a tiny tan head. Aroma is wood, caramel, dark fruits, salty malt. Taste is caramel, soy, nuts, vinious grapes, wood. Very nice.

Very hazy dark brown. Aroma is caramel and soy. Flavor is caramel, slight soy, nut, slight marshmellow with a slight woodiness in the finish.

’02, batch 4, and this is definitly one phenomenal beer. Pour is dark murky brown, small white bubbles along the edges forming it’s "head." Nose is FULL of pure awesomeness, oak, wine, sweetness, a bit of caramel, and darkish fruits. Taste is similar but more vinous and oaky, a bit sour, but not too much, just right sourness. A nice sweet touch too, with a descent malt backbone to it. Overall a VERY amazing beer that everybody should get out and try before the BA versions are all gone. A personal favorite that I hope to get to try again, and really hope they remake after the non- BA versions dont bode so well.

Poured from a 750ml, batch #4, bottled in 2002. Yielded a very dark, hazy mahogany bodied ale, topped my a very minimal off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, very very oak-aged vinous. Taste is medium sweet-n-sour, kinda winey sour, oak leading the charge, but also choco-toffee with vinous momentsm finishing with that oaky wine barrel goodness. Palate senses very ligh carbonation, oily and complex with a medium bodied feel. I like it.....the intial taste took me for a minor loop, but I gathered myself and enjoyed this bottle. A very different barley wine for me. Thanks brewbandit!

bottled. purple-brown colour. dunno if it was because of the name but there seemed to be a fair bit of fish sauce in the aroma. some nice toasty malts and a huge amount of earthy red wine and tomato juice flavours and some glace cherry sweetness. pretty strange but alright

Rerate from a bottle shared by puzzl. Batch 4. Rich amber beer, low carbonation and no head. Smells like the inside of a barrel. Extremely oaky and herbal with dill, oak, and other sweet herbs. The flavour is very sweet and once again is clobbered by the extensive barrel aging. Some vanilla sweetness in the back, but I really don’t enjoy this brew much and I think I overrated it last time around. Very dark brown-amber cloudy beer with a light ruby tint. Massive oaky aroma is the first thing I get. There is a herbal dill aroma in here as well. A bit of hoppy aroma, although it’s slightly subdued. Caramel malt aroma, with some faint fruitiness. Flavour is quite sweet, caramel, toffee, cherry, dates, and the aforementioned oakiness. I actually found the oakiness a bit overdone here, but it’s still a great beer. I think I prefer the newer version. 8 4 8 4 17