Three Floyds Behemoth Barleywine

purple wax, cognac colored with a slight wispy head, great pine, grapefruit, malty flavors with a very subtle sweet caramel hop finish, excellent beer

Yellow wax. Pours a foggystrawberry amber. The hops are still quite lively. A ton of fruit in the nose. The flavors are complex. Raisins, pine, citrus, strawberry and caramel. Slightly hot. This is 2 years old and has not mellowed out. I think the shelf life could be at least 20 years. Quite intense.

Tasted 6/24/08. Yellow wax 22oz bomber. Hazy and sedimented with a brown amber hue. Spiraling off-white head. Big candy nose. Woody port and cinnamon. Fudge and grassy. Full bodied and sweet with big malts and hops. Big alcohol presence. Raisins and spicy cinnamon. Cookie malts. Nice sugary/bitter hop duality. Oaky earthy vanilla note,. Estery and syrupy. Solid on both the malt and hop characteristics. Lacing head. Figgy with a touch of burnt sugar. Toffee and graham crackers. Fantastic!

Yellow wax. Pours milky terra cotta with a thin, but dense eggshell head. Aroma is citrus, but imediately masked by fruitcake dark fruit. Flavor starts off mildly fruity with dried cherries and oak. Finishes all alcohol and mostly pine but a little citrusy hops. Sweet, but not offensively so. The second pleasantly drinkable barleywine I have had tonight. Hides its alcohol very well, yet still has a nice warmth..

Beer pours ruby brown color with a lot of head and lacing for the abv. The flavor was a ton of citrus sweetness with a load of pine hop. The mouthfeel was a bit flat and sticky and the beer in general was difficult to drink, even for a barleywine. An okay attempt, but not going to make me shell out $20 any time soon...not even close!

Purple waxed bottle. Small vanilla head that was mostly lasting, fair amount of lacing, transparent, fizzy carbonation, and a copper hue with some orange, reddish and golden tint. The aroma was malty, caramel, citrus hops, alcohol, grapefruit, and light pine. Ditto for the flavor along with being mildly spicy, some pine, and lightly bitter. Sticky, dry mouthfeel and medium bodied. Quaffable for the style, very hoppy, worthy of a try although this isn’t a beer that I will have again because it was too hoppy tasting since I am not a true hophead.

Pours copper/amber with thin off white head. Aroma jumps out of the bottle as the top is popped with hops, caramel, and malt. Taste is malt, hops, tons of caramel. Hops not as noticeable as expected. Nice creamy mouthfeel that goes down easy. Alcohol has slight burn going down but would not have expected 12%. Great beer!

’07 (yellow wax ) bomber pours caramel brown with medium tan head. Aromas of sweet roasted malts, caramel, and hops. Tastes roasted malts and slight citrus. starts sweet but finishes hoppy, bitter and slightly dry.Looking forward into opening the ’08. Got to the ’08(purple wax). ’08 is a better blend of fruits, malts and hops. Overall a bit sweeter, hops are not as forward, and the alcohol is better hidden. I had to up my rating by 0.2 based on the ’08.