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Fish Tale Leviathan Barleywine (Barrel Aged)

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2614.07/5.04.04/5.0Winter10%98.3Snifter
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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 Madsnp (617), Odense C, Denmark
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/104/517/20
Jul 5, 2009  
Celebrating my rating #300. Woo Hoo!! Bottle@TheWolf. 2001 vintage. Pours slight hazy amber coloured with a small creamy off white head. Aromas of caramel, vanilla, chocolate, chestnuts and fruit. Flavour of chewy caramel, bread, toffee, warming alcohol and wood.


 ChristianScheffel (4481), Odense, Denmark
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/103/517/20
Jun 25, 2009  
Cloudy red brown with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of coconut-oak, and vineous cherry. Dry and wooden caramel flavour with a lot of bourbon. character.


 Dedollewaitor (3650), Odense, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/515/20
Jun 24, 2009  
Bottle @ The Wolf. Tasted blind. 2001 Vintage. Pours a dark unclear brown with a small creamy bubbly head and lacings. Nose is oak, vanilla, strong malty toffee and liquorice. Prickling alcohol in the back. Smooth . . . Lovely.


 Skinnyviking (4141), Copenhagen, Denmark
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Jun 23, 2009  
Bottle. Low creamy and quickly disappearing off-white head. Hazy dark red body. Fruity caramel cocoa aroma. Alcohol dominated flavor with cocoa plum and bluberries. Smooth creamy. Low carbonation. Long aftertaste.


 yespr (12020), Copenhagen O, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 21, 2009  
From bottle, blind #12, vintage 2001, courtesy of thewolf. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Sweet caramel malt aroma, light yeasty and spiced too. Sweet caramel, liqourice and slight breadish flavoured. Distinct alcohol, phenolic and spiced bite. Warming alcohol finish, slight throat burn. Lasting breadish and dark caramel malt impression into the far finish.


 thewolf (5727), Kolding, Denmark
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/510/105/517/20
Jun 21, 2009  
Bottle. [thank you, after4ever]
[Bottle #12 in the Kolding Blindtasting, 20th June 2009]
[vintage 2001]
Pours muddy brown with a small, steady, creamy, beige film head. Very nice and very soft aroma. Vinious, raisins, caramel, oak, plums, vanilla, biscuits; all rolled into one elegant package. Low carbonation, super oily mouthfeel. Flavour though, is even better. Lots of oaky presence, toffee, dark chocolate (a lot), raisins, vanilla. Long, lingering aftertaste with fine bitterness and sweet caramel. Warming. Damn, this is one brilliant BW that has been aged perfectly.


 BuckeyeBoy (1654), Boise, Idaho, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/516/20
Jun 1, 2009  
Bottle 2002 vintage. Pours out a brown with some red highs topped with a cream tan head. Aroma WOW tons of sweentess, caramel, brown sugar, pit fruit and some oak. Tast was more of the aroma. Sweetness caramel the pit fruit and a nice pine hop still. Very nice BW.


 SuzyGreenberg (1337), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/518/20
May 3, 2009  
750 ml bottle - 2002 vintage; long time coming trying this bad boy after i traded away my first few; pours clear, dark amber with very faint head; mildly funky with a similar sourness and oxidation level as the BA stout samples 6 months ago; that works better with the BW though in terms of drinkability; sugar, apples and pears; not really that bad, but aged beyond it’s peak for sure



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