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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Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Medium to good dense, cream-coloured head over orangeish amber beer. Peat, tarr, Islay whisky - nothing but very classic. Slight touch of orangepeel. Tarr, phenols and, once more, orangepeel. Tarred wood. For the rest, the beer itself presents little noteworthy features. Thinnish MF, watery, quite carbonated; Definitely better than The Kraken. Or - is it because I like Islay malt taste, and certainly Ardbeg...? Once more, the claimed ABV seems hard to swallow.
77ships (14506) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
Thanks to Kraddel! 500 ml. bottle sampled. Bottle # 208/666. Hazy orange, some bubbles only on the side. Nose is horrendous, phenolic, watery, battery acid in your face, something rotting sour, peat comes across as hugely plastic in a bad way. Taste is rotting, plastic, battery acid, plastic, weirdly sour, hugely buttery, spoiled, watery body, mild peat behind this mess, big sugar, touch nail pollis,… Pretty much flat, watery & buttery. I am sorry but I think that this is horrible, tastes like the base beer was a catastrophe and the barrel was meant to mask that fact. The other ratings are good, the probably might just lay with me & maybe I just don’t get this beer. Sadly I couldn’t drink this at all. Same goes for its brother Kraken. Label is cool but came across better on paper than it does on the label.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Pours murkey blonde, no head: Smell is pure peat. Taste is mildly bitter, somewhat sweet. Nicely grainy. Ok, it’s peated - which I hate- but as a total product, its not bad at all. Good MF and decent carbo. The peat is surprisingly mild.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Leviathan from D'Oude Maalderij 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as d'Oude Maalderij Leviathan (by d'Oude Maalderij):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
14/XI/15 - on tap @ De Brouwerij / Oude Maalderij (Izegem) - BB: n/a (2015-1563)
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very peated, medicinal, really heavy on the peat. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very peated, bit fruity, sweet, some citrus, sourish, touch, sugary notes. Aftertaste: very peated, but not too much, bit sweet, soft oxidation, fruity notes. Taste is - luckily - not as heavy with the peat as the nose.