Three Floyds Behemoth Barleywine

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

Wonderful aroma of sweet malt, lightly roasted raisin, cinnamon rolls, and bread. Brownish amber color with thick off white head. Rich and smooth flavors. Figs, raisins, malt, banana bread, salt, and tobacco. Dries out a bit on the finish. Well balanced. Very creamy palate, rich, sweet, buttery, and lightly bitter to balance. Very good and very dangerous. It would be easy to drink this deceivingly strong brew into an early evening faceplant.

great nose of hops/resin copper color, no head little retention malty on entry that turn hop dry at finish. very clean, with alcohol well concealed

Fresh on tap at FFF pub. Pours a lovely caramel orange hue that is perfect with it’s thin tannish head. Beautiful lacing left on the snifter as you drink this wonder. Big fresh citrus nose, some pine, obviously very fresh hop sharacter. Mouthfeel is creamy, almost chewy and so enjoyable. Flavor is dominated my clean citrus flavos that finish with a lingering pine quuality. This is still a little young and you can taste some plant matter from the hops, but that only tells me how fresh and lovely this is. Will get better with age to be sure.

Very nice. Cloudy amber pour. This was a 2007 release. Nose very loud with citrus. Taste is complex with citrus hops, caramel and dark fruits. Good drink for a winter night.

Sample @ Coles Barleywine festival courtesy of Rudolf. Pours a nice ruby copper color. Sweet nose with alcohol, toffee & caramel sweetness, orange citrus, brown sugar. Nice balance with slight alcohol burn in the finish. Medium FFF citrusy hop presnce. Thanks Rudy

I enjoyed this, but was underwhelmed. It had that great 3F orange, citrus, hops character and the potent fruity malts were there but overall it just did not stand out from many other barleywines to me. Solid, not spectacular barleywine.

I’m not sure anything could do much better than this. Aroma is similar to a IIPA, with a very citrusy and fresh hop scent. Flavor is beautifully balanced between the hops and heavy amount of malt. In my opinion, the alcohol is pretty well hidden. All around this is one of my absolute favorite beers!!!----� 2009 Blue Wax. Thinner mouthfeel this year, and not quite as much of the malty balance as in past year’s. This one definitely needs time to collect itself. 2008 purple wax bottle

2007 release. Appearance: Pours a murky, dark amber body with a small, thin, off-white head. Smell: Flowery, sweet-smelling malt aroma of light caramel and with notes of sugar-coated pineapple rings, apricots, and citrus fruits. Taste: Pale and caramel malts with a candyish sweetness. Fruits follow from the nose. Citrusy hops provide a moderate, jarring bitterness to match the sweetness. Trace of that ABV along the way. Finishes bittersweet. Mouthfeel: Medium-full body. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: Surely a nice American barleywine, but I do find the price somewhat deterring.