Leviathan IPA
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Regular|
Score
7.42
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Description
This Imperial IPA is brewed with loads of pale malt and just enough caramel malt to provide a sweet malt backbone to balance the hop intensity. We used a mix of our favorite American hops including Chinook, Centennial, Simcoe, and Amarillo to create a complex hop flavor and lingering bitterness. Harpoon’s proprietary yeast lends fruity esters, while dry-hopping at the rate of over one pound per barrel produces this beer’s massive aroma.
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Weihenweizen (7385) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Refrigerated bottle poured into a shaker. Pours deep golden with half inch off-white head that dissapates fairly quickly. Good small bubble lacing, medium carbonation, medium body, and good pine/grapefruit aroma. Taste is floral, some grapefruit, and some pine. Pretty good.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Harpoon Leviathan IPA (by Harpoon Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 5/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
2/10/2011 on tap @ Harpoon Brewery (2011-496)
Clear deep orange beer, aery white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pineapple, passion fruits, herbal, some floral notes. MF: ok carbon, full body. Taste: passion fruits, pineapple, citrus,sweet fruitiness, some malts. Aftertaste: citrus, bitter hops, bit sweet. Very well balanced, loved it!
Lubiere (24459) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
A dark reddish copper brown DIPA with thick frothy lacing mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with loads of citrusy floral hops, grapefruit pulp, resinous and piney, treacle, light butterscotch, alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a nice caramel malt with vinous notes, treacle, light butterscotch, resinous and piney hops, alcohol warmth, light maderized character, very nice for a 8 year old DIPA. Rated Jan 6 2019.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
12 oz. bottle, pours a hazy golden orange with a small white head. Sugary resinous hops on the nose with loads of caramel sweetness - hints at a very sweet body. Flavour has lots of sticky resinous hops, heaps of caramel, all this dominated by an extremely sugary base that sort of overwhelms the big hop presence and malt backing. Finished sickly sweet, with a boozy burn. Definitely overrated.
MrSpooks (5447) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Contains a very sweet start, surprisingly so, before rolling into resinous hop madness. This sweetness isn’t bad, just sudden and big, and the accompanying hop finish is equally as abrupt. This beer has a burnt cinnamon toast quality that is both nice and annoying, although the mighty booziness eventually tilts the scale towards annoying. Not a bad DIPA, but in need of some taming. (4/30/09)
radagast83 (13490) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Poured a clear orange color with a medium-small white head. Aroma was grapefruit, citrus, malts. Flavor was pretty hoppy, with a solid backing of malts. Was a bit heavy for me (at 10%) when consumed but entirely drinkable and a very solid brew.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bright copper. Very C-hoppy with lime, papaya and orange. Lots of these hops, floral and fruity. Lots of malts, some background stickiness.
Convair880 (6926) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle bought at Charles Street Liquors, Boston, Mass. last October. A deep golden coloured pour with a medium off white head. Nice hoppy aroma, typical DIPA aroma. Tastes hoppy, malty, caramel, sweet and sticky, grapefruit, tropical fruit. Nicely balanced and an excellent example of this style.
johnnnniee (7495) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pours a crystal clear beautiful deep golden color with a fluffy white head that disappears quickly. Smell is hoppy, spicy, citrus hops. There’s also a bit of malt in there caramel and a bit of molasses. Taste is very hoppy bitter citrus and pine resin. The malt is very faint in the taste. Medium to thick body, crisp carbonation, resinous bitter in the mouth. Another one for the hop heads. Smells really balanced, but taste is heavy to the hop side. Decent brew, reminds me a lot of harpoon IPA only bigger.
pivnizub (12821) reviewed Leviathan IPA from Harpoon Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle (Thank You so much, Jonas!): Almost clear, deep golden to light amber coloured, mid-sized creamy off-white head; piny-hoppy and apricoty-fruity nose; solid dry bitter-sweet flavour, medium to full bodied; medical hoppy favours in the dry bitter finish, balanced by a caramelly sweetness. Almost perfectly balanced brew....