Harpoon Leviathan Belgian Quad

Brewed by Harpoon Brewery
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Bottle shared by Hophead22. Pours a hazy reddish with a light beige head. Aroma is sweet, spicy, floral, and medicinal, with a ton of bubblegum and some honey. Flavor is spicy and warming with a nice smooth bitterness, some citrus and bubblegum. Full bodied but not too thick, low carbonation. Tasty tasty brew.

Copper color with a moderate, small bubbled tan head. Strong aromas, with raisins, earthy caramel malt, dark candi, fig, dates and just a hint of alcohol. Lots of esters and phenols. Lots of alcohol swimming around with the fruit. Quite thick and nearly cloying. Not sure how this one will do with time. Seems like it is hot now, am I’m thinking it just might get hotter. Not as warming as I expected. Perhaps the alcohol is working, but I do think this is softening as it sets and warms slightly. Finish has a bit of spice and herbs. Linger has a slight return of caramel and malt.

Very hazy brown pour, a little (but continuous) carbonation with tons of sweet malt aromas. Plenty of spice right off the bat (pepper, cloves, etc.), then finished malty with boozy warmth on the finish. As the beer warms up, it becomes a little more in your face with the alcohol.

12oz bottle from goldtwins, thanks Larry, shared with DuffManSW and mspindler. Dark amber/gold pour. Sweet spicy aroma. More sweetness, dark fruits, and some alcohol warmth in the end, pretty good.

Bottle thanks to 17thfloor, thanks gerrit! Murky red with white head. Aroma is sweet plum, orange, citrus, in style. Flavor is alc, plum, citrus, raisin. Medium and creamy body. Alc is a little to present with too much banana and a little touch of apple juice as well.

Pours a heavily oxidized copper/brown with a slight cherry hue. Thin head only around the edges of the glass. Aroma is very sweet with some sourness brown sugar, plum, raisins, dark fruit and some caramel. Flavor is very sweet also. Notes of dark fruit raisins and fig, definitely caramel and brown sugar, and an apparent but not overly boozy alcohol flavor. The alcohol and the sweetness of the beer blend well.

Bottle (with thanks to goldtwins.) Pours a medium brown with a big beige head, lots of streams of carbonation and aromas of banana, bubble gum, cloves, plums and brown sugar. Flavor is a lot like a hodge-podge of the above, but it seems a bit unbalanced... ABV is fairly obvious, carbonation is a bit too much, and there is a little bit of a landfill like flavor or something, but it might just be the effect of jumbling so many other flavors together. This seems to go away a bit as it warms. Still, it is good enough.

Bottle. Pours orange-brown with a medium sized cream colored head. Aroma is prune, plum, sweet fruit, and alcohol. Lot of dry fruit sweetness upfront, very full, with a spiced, alcoholic finish. Nice rich flavor, but finish is too sharp.