Harpoon Leviathan Baltic Porter

Brewed by Harpoon Brewery
Style: Baltic Porter
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle 12fl.oz. @ chrisos Back In The UK Tasting.

Clear medium to dark brown color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, fruity, spicy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average duration, spicy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100522]

Bottled. A red-brown beer with a thin tan head - not really the look of a Baltic Porter. The aroma has notes of sweet and roasted malt as well as well some caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and alcohol, the latter burning lightly on the tongue.

12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small off-white head. Aroma is fruity and dark roasted malty. Roasted malty, caramelish and liqourice. Dark roasted malt and slight sweetness. Ends dark roasted malty.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of RCL. Pours a dark brown with a warm orange hue with a beige head. Sweet hard roast and a little tar in the nose. Solid body, hard roast malts, vanilla and licorice again with a slight touch of tar and smoke. Some malt astringency. 150311

Bottle at Papsø. Clear red brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Sweet and light roasted aroma of caramel with notes of rye bread. Sweet and roasted flavour of caramel and rye rbead with notes of alcohol. Roasted and warming alcoholic finish.

Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Clear dark red/brown - white head. Licorice, roasted, ryebread, chocolate, light hoppy, cocoa, light body, smokey. Very nice.

(12oz bottle, courtesy of mar) Pours a mahogany body with a small off-white head. Aroma of raisins, dates, anise, and light roast. Flavor of raisins, dates, molasses, some burnt/roasted malts, light smoke, and chocolate with a moderately dry finish.

bottle at Chris-O ... brown thin lacing ... soft roast ... little coffee ... little metalic .. roast toffee malts ... light bitter chocolate ... bit thin

Bottle at Chriso’ Blue Mountains of Virginia tasting. My notes say that MadMitch76 and I didn’t agree on this beer, but our scores aren’t a million miles apart. Very very deep ruby colour. Mostly choc and malt on aroma. Good in the body. Rather lovely

(12oz bottle) Minimal beige head atop dark-brown body. Aroma is medium sweet, chocolate, roast, some prune, burnt, light anise. Taste is medium sweet, bittersweet chocolate, roast, some burnt, light salted peanut. Alcohol present but remains in the background. Medium-full body, some syrup, light acidity.