Fish Tale Leviathan Barleywine (Batch 5+)

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

Serve in Snifter

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i had the first sip out of the bottle and i thought it was going to be black colored yet when i poured it after that it was a very hazy dark amber color.very very sweet aroma, lots of sugar and molasses and brown sugar. very thick sugary brew that could probably use some age to develop those sugars.

Bottle from BevMo, Sacramento. Pours dark brown with a tiny beige head and a treacle and citrus aroma. There is a rather flat nutty chocolate malt flavor with a hoppy bitter finish.

12oz bottle from Wade’s Wines. I think age might have dimmed this one over 7 years. There is almost no aroma at all. The flavor was still nice and carmelly. Also no hint of the 10ABV. Good but time has passed it by.

17th May 2009
Cloudy brown beer. Softish palate. Rich malt that is very slightly creamy. A little aniseed. Smooth but lacking complexity.

12 oz bottle trade with pabobcat, thanks David. Poured a decent looking muddy-swamp water brown underneath a smaller beige head. Aroma is heavily oxidized with notes of cardboard, caramel, toffee, and some dry grass clippings. Thinner watery body with soft carbonation. Flavor of cardboard, water, caramel and toffee. This one was way way way past it’s prime but still nice to try an almost eight year old body.

Brown bottle, 650 ml, drank with Luc Bourbonnière (merci!), savoured on October 8 2010; eye: dirty brown, opaque, suspended matter, tiny ring of café au lait head, nice lacing; nose: resinous hops, malt, light pine, molasses, caramel; mouth: resinous hops, malt, molasses, caramel, alcohol, "tired", finale in resinous hops with presence of molasses, medium-full body, not much carbonation, mildly sweet and bitter, light alcoholic texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 650 ml, 10 %, bue avec Luc Bourbonnière, savourée le 8 octobre 2010; œil : brune sale, opaque, matière en suspension, petit anneau de mousse café au lait, bonne dentelle; nez : houblon résineux, malt, léger pin, mélasse, caramel; bouche : houblon résineux, malt, mélasse, caramel, alcool, « fatigué », finale en houblon résineux avec présence de mélasse, corps moyen-corsé, peu de carbonatation, moyennement sucrée et amère, texture légèrement alcoolique; en résumé : bien

Bomber, shared by Lubiere (merci!) with GRM, served cold in a Scotch-Irish glass. 2006 vintage. 08OC10.

App.: Clear copper with a yellow-tan head. Aroma: Typical American BW, tons of fruit and pine/resin hops, so much sticky malt, tropical fruits, mangoes, marmalade, caramel, rye bread, treacle/toffee. Palate: Medium+ body, medium-low effervescence, oily/syrupy. Flav.: Huge malt, cat food/mashy/savoury with tons of caramel/treacle/toffee, tropical fruits, stinging alcohol, pine rye bread crust, marmalade, pine other the top in basically every aspect; sweet with considerable alcohol and a resinous finish that lacks bitterness.

At 4 years old, this might be a bit passed its prime...hard to say.

[3030-20100629] Tap. Aroma has the hint of a tobacco pouch and mild fruit. Slightly hazy, amber orange body with a quick foamy white head. Sweet honeyed toast malt flavour has a long sweet aftertaste. Medium-full body. Good, odd sweet characteristics.
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Average, but I’ve only seen it once. Got a chewiness to it that I felt suited the beer. Moderately hoppy finish.

Last beer of the tasty day .. . pours a dark mud .. foam is decent .. . very tasty, molasses, caramel, cupcake, caramel, and burnt caramel with light plum .. . good stuff .. . calmer than you are.. . calmer than you are...

One of this IPA-ish looking barley wines. Thick and chewy, hops present and assertive. Pretty decent but very middle of the road.