Leviathan
D'Oude Maalderij in Izegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Barley Wine - Barley Special|
Score
5.98
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For this massive beer we used only natural malts, oatmeal and sugars.
We needed an extra fermentation with champagne yeast to achieve the 14% abv without adding alcohol or chemicals.
The labels were designed on demand by our good friend Antonio Bravo (Spain) who also does the labels for Naparbier and Zombier.
As the beer was devided in 2 pieces they join again if you put the labels together. They form a masterpiece of art showing an epic battle between the 2 most fearfull mythical seacreatures known to mankind.
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Benzai (24515) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4
Bottle 142/666 shared with Erwin Van Moll @ Brewpub Van Moll. Murky orangy color, small off-white head. Aroma is malts, band-aid, peat, iodine. Taste malts, iodine, peat, band-aid, bitter. Totally nit my thing, in fact I hate this. Iodine, peat, Bleh not for me. Yuk!
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Clear yellow appearance. Aroma of perfume and fresh leather. Flavour is a bit salty and leathery. Some citrusy notes try to make their presence known. Warming alcohol heat in the finish. Very interesting but doesn’t quite deliver.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Leicht trübes orange goldenes Bier mit einer mittelgroßen weißen Schaumkrone. Geruch nach milden reifen Früchten, rote Beeren. Geschmack süß malzig, Gewürze, Kräuter, Hefe.
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma is slightly spicy, phenolic. Taste is boozy phenols, apples, warming finish. Medium carbonation. Ok.
yespr (55501) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange to brown with a thick, tan and creamy head. Aroma is solid peated and smoked. Iodine, sweet malty, dextrose like. Lingering peated and caramelish finish.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
At Bruges Beer Fest. Pours hazy amber with a minimal tan head. Aroma contains peach, sugar, caramel, honey, wine, fruity whisky and vanilla. It tastes very sweet, even into the long and smoky finish. The texture is thin and sticky at the same time. Mild carbonation. An overwhelming punch of alcohol, which contrasts with the light body and the quite flat taste.
Kermis (23416) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled at Brugge beer festival 2016. Very hazy amber with a tan head. Massive peat aroma overpowering light caramel and toffee notes. Flavour is light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter. Above medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Rauchig alkoholischer Antrunk. Rauchig bitter, ein wenig herb. Süßlich würzig, spritzig, erstaunlich süffig. Gelungen. 10/10/10/10/6/10
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
08/01/2016 @ home - 50cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck, Vichte. Hazy orange with only small, white head. Nose is peated, fruity. Taste is heavy peated (but however enjoyable), fruity, almonds, candy, sugar.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
The other one in this bizarre project, aged in Ardbeg barrels. Coarse, off-white, loose head dissolving quickly and almost completely under influence of the alcohol, colour is a murky peach blonde with brownish hue, completely ’milky’ and muddy with deposit. Like its Kraken counterpart, this beer has a very agressive and not too inviting aroma dominated by glue- and paint-like phenols, a heavy dosis of iodine (peat) and a lot of alcohol (whisky), next to wet wood, mouldy orange, rotten peach, cough syrup, cloves, vanilla, caramel, chlorine and ureum... Sticky sweet onset, honeyish and white candi sugar-like with a lot of unfermented sugars, feeling a bit ’worty’ even, banana, overripe peach, very (too) low in carbonation even for a 14% beer, slick caramelly and honeyish malt sweetness with again a surprisingly ’thin’ body - or at least thinner than expected. Finishes in continuing sticky honey and overripe fruit sweetness, an awful lot of glueish phenols, wet woodiness, strong retronasal iodine and expectedly a huge amount of whisky-like alcohol, burning a bit till deep down the throat. I found the labels, the sea monster theme and the whole idea behind this duo very fascinating, but now that I tasted both of them, I cannot recommend either of them. Both have fermentation issues and are completely out of balance, in being way too alcoholic and extremely phenolic to the point where it becomes hard to pour down a complete glass - in fact, as with the Kraken, most of this beer went down the sink. A missed opportunity at producing something remarkable and this one in particular suffers from heavy peaty iodine presence, very medicinal, something I do not seem to be able to master. Peated whisky is a refined and balanced product as it is, but when used for beer, it seems only the iodine smell remains and frankly, in most cases this completely ruins these beers for me. This one adds insult to injury in having no redeeming features or decent structure underneath that iodine so I cannot but give it a painfully low score, I’m afraid.