Three Floyds Behemoth Barleywine

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Munster, Indiana USA

At tasting session by Joes. A clear amber colored beer, with a beige head. The aroma of hop bitters with sweet fruits, this moves over to bitter fruits. The taste is hop bitter, with fruits like grapes and citrus. There hints of malts and some notes of alcohol. The aftertaste is bitter and a bit syrup. A beer with complex aromas and taste.

Blue wax. Purchased at Lakeview Binny’s. It’s aight. Pretty light bodied for a 12% barley wine, this had none of the malty fullness and richness I like in my barley wines -- it’s pretty much a hoppy american strong. Nice billowing "racing" and sudsy sparce lacing with a head that mostly dissipates over a dark amber beer. There’s some sweet golden raisin on the nose (much more than in the mouth), accented by floral and oily hops. Caramel sweetness in the mouth is dark and not too distinct, mostly acting as a nondescript baseline around which the hops play, sometimes juicy, always bitter. Not a bad beer at all, but my barley wine tastes are fairly specific, and this doesn’t push the right buttons for me (I don’t know why I rate barley wines more "to style" than any other style, but I do -- and by "to style" I mean "to what I want it to be").

Had at the EBF 2009. Golden brown with a small tan head. Fruity nose with hints of pine and citrus. Great beer. Glad I finally got to try it.

Yummy barleywine, too easy to drink but still.. Lovely hop profile. Very american (wich I like) and very bitter (wich I like) and very well balanced with no sign of the high ABV. Finishes of on the sweeter side but still with a good underlaying bitterness and some warmth in the belly. Great.

Dark Orange color that that tastes like an orange with piney and bitter hops was my first ever barley wine had it on tap bought 4 24oz to age in my cellar cant wait to age it

courtesy of Tony at OTH. 06 version. pours deep dark orange with no head. Aroma is malty with strong scent of brown sugar/caramel. Taste, malty, sugary with very light hints of hops that had some light grapefruit bitterness and caramel. Simply delicious.

F*** my *ss Thats a barley wine.I had this as a young barley wine and it is magnificent now i’ve got an aged one in my cellar, im gunna let it sit for a couple more years. One thing i really liked about this BW is that it has excellent hop character!

draft at three floyds. fruity, sweet, big, nice. i liked it. great from tap but would like to try an aged version.