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Leviathan Triple IPA
Clown Shoes
- From:
- Clown Shoes
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
Ranked #1,766 - ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #13,824 - Avg:
- 3.94 | pDev: 7.87%
- Reviews:
- 21
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 24, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 23, 2018
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 2
A New England cult classic is back but with a Clown Shoes twist! A big, bold, Imperial IPA clocking in a 11% ABV, expect a lingering bitterness that balances dank hop additions blending earthy, fruity, and floral notes.
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Reviewed by robwired from Kansas
4.36/5 rDev +10.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.36/5 rDev +10.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Canned 06/22/22
Poured a healthy head that left a top foam and lacy coating. Medium creamy mouthfeel.
The flavor is malt-forward with a slight sweetness. Of course, it has a hoppy and piney character.
There's a chocolate note in the finish.
Sep 13, 2022Poured a healthy head that left a top foam and lacy coating. Medium creamy mouthfeel.
The flavor is malt-forward with a slight sweetness. Of course, it has a hoppy and piney character.
There's a chocolate note in the finish.
Reviewed by clayrock81 from Florida
4/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured a seethru orange-gold body with decent head and good lace ring. The aroma struck me as floral, earthy, citrusy, and a touch of malts of something funky. Smooth, crisp, earthy, floral, almost no bitterness, well-hidden ABV, a balance of grapefruit and something like caramel malt with good balance. The ABV creeps up on you on the finish and complements the beer. Hard to describe as this beer seems a tad off-kilter but it's easy to drink and I enjoyed it.
Sep 02, 2022Reviewed by MadMadMike from France
3.65/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Triple IPAs are A Thing these days.
Here’s a pint can poured into an MIA Brewing snifter. Dated 6:22/22, canned at 16:08 PM.
Pours a murky orange color, one finger of white foam dissipates really quick.
Smells kinda odd on the spin., malty, not piney, familiar, not ‘wow’.
Taste is sweet, malt and hop, with a bitter resonance at the end.
Feel is nothing special at all - a bit viscous, very low carbonation.
Overall, a buzz bomb, not a treat.
Aug 21, 2022Here’s a pint can poured into an MIA Brewing snifter. Dated 6:22/22, canned at 16:08 PM.
Pours a murky orange color, one finger of white foam dissipates really quick.
Smells kinda odd on the spin., malty, not piney, familiar, not ‘wow’.
Taste is sweet, malt and hop, with a bitter resonance at the end.
Feel is nothing special at all - a bit viscous, very low carbonation.
Overall, a buzz bomb, not a treat.
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.7/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.7/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Clown Shoes "Leviathan Triple IPA"
16 fl. oz. can "canned on 173 06/22/22 16:30" and sampled on 07/20/22 15:53
$4.29 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: How big is this Leviathan? 10%! Whoah! Alright, alright, alright. It's poured a hazy golden/amber colored body beneath a finger's width of rocky white foam. Uggh, there's something not quite right in the aroma. It's not real strong but it's there: Ethyl Acetate. Beyond that it's mainly malty with a little bit of a tropical waft but not much else. That's actually fairly common in double IPAs so I don't see why that shouldn't be the case here. On to the taste... ohhh Jeebus! The ethyl acetate is there too! You just lost me. I can taste some alcohol as well, which is normally fine, but when it kind of pricks you right upfront that's not good. Let me go right back to what I said about the aroma in terms of the taste, 'beyond that it's mainly malty with a little bit of tropical fruit but not much else'. I'm getting orange, pear, apple, nectarine, pineapple... papaya... and mango. There's some earthiness and perhaps a bit of spiciness but that's just as likely coming from the alcohol. The malt is sweetish and bready, and a firm bitterness backs it. It finishes with bready and almost vanilla-like malt fading steadily as the spiciness, earthiness, and alcohol come forward. Without the fermentation flaw this could be a great beer but as it stands I'm thinking of tossing it as higher alcohols and I don't get along. My face and ears turn bright red and I just don't feel comfortable. In the mouth it's full bodied, malty, and creamy smooth. The head held up fairly well and it's left some lacing behind but not a lot. I wish I could score this better but a fermentation flaw is a pretty negative thing. I understand that a lot of people won't notice it, or won't know what it is, but if I can pick it up right off the bat it's definitely there and it's definitely a flaw. I was so excited for this beer but in the end it's a disaster, not unlike the the voyage of the whaleship Essex that inspired Melville to write "Moby Dick". It seems the name is quite appropriate.
Review #8,170
Jul 20, 202216 fl. oz. can "canned on 173 06/22/22 16:30" and sampled on 07/20/22 15:53
$4.29 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: How big is this Leviathan? 10%! Whoah! Alright, alright, alright. It's poured a hazy golden/amber colored body beneath a finger's width of rocky white foam. Uggh, there's something not quite right in the aroma. It's not real strong but it's there: Ethyl Acetate. Beyond that it's mainly malty with a little bit of a tropical waft but not much else. That's actually fairly common in double IPAs so I don't see why that shouldn't be the case here. On to the taste... ohhh Jeebus! The ethyl acetate is there too! You just lost me. I can taste some alcohol as well, which is normally fine, but when it kind of pricks you right upfront that's not good. Let me go right back to what I said about the aroma in terms of the taste, 'beyond that it's mainly malty with a little bit of tropical fruit but not much else'. I'm getting orange, pear, apple, nectarine, pineapple... papaya... and mango. There's some earthiness and perhaps a bit of spiciness but that's just as likely coming from the alcohol. The malt is sweetish and bready, and a firm bitterness backs it. It finishes with bready and almost vanilla-like malt fading steadily as the spiciness, earthiness, and alcohol come forward. Without the fermentation flaw this could be a great beer but as it stands I'm thinking of tossing it as higher alcohols and I don't get along. My face and ears turn bright red and I just don't feel comfortable. In the mouth it's full bodied, malty, and creamy smooth. The head held up fairly well and it's left some lacing behind but not a lot. I wish I could score this better but a fermentation flaw is a pretty negative thing. I understand that a lot of people won't notice it, or won't know what it is, but if I can pick it up right off the bat it's definitely there and it's definitely a flaw. I was so excited for this beer but in the end it's a disaster, not unlike the the voyage of the whaleship Essex that inspired Melville to write "Moby Dick". It seems the name is quite appropriate.
Review #8,170
Reviewed by SenojEtep from Massachusetts
4.6/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
4.6/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
Now that I am on my last can, I am looking for a clone recipe. Great balance between malt and hops. The variety of hops comes through. Lightly malty. Thin texture that fits the strength, evidently strong without being phenolic.
Jan 19, 2021Reviewed by Bierman9 from New Hampshire
3.92/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From a 16oz can, at $4.50...
It is a rich, slightly hazy, bright apricot color. Has a fluffy, rocky off-white head, with A-1 lacing. Aroma is ripe with citrus... pineapple, apricot and tangerine... nice! Body is a decent medium, and it has a touch of prickle on the tongue.
Taste has a bit of light caramel malt sweetness and a grainy aspect before going to the bitter side. Has some pithy grapefruit, lemon zest, melon and piney resins. Finishes a bit dank and earthy. Not bad... Prosit!
3.92/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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Jan 09, 2021It is a rich, slightly hazy, bright apricot color. Has a fluffy, rocky off-white head, with A-1 lacing. Aroma is ripe with citrus... pineapple, apricot and tangerine... nice! Body is a decent medium, and it has a touch of prickle on the tongue.
Taste has a bit of light caramel malt sweetness and a grainy aspect before going to the bitter side. Has some pithy grapefruit, lemon zest, melon and piney resins. Finishes a bit dank and earthy. Not bad... Prosit!
3.92/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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Reviewed by imnodoctorbut from Texas
4/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I give this one a rounded up score for the experience alone. this was my first triple IPA and it's named after one of my lifelong fascinations - it even managed to turn out a REALLY decent brew. would 10/10 do again, but another go-around has helped me gauge expectations. it's not earthmoving but it doesn't have to be. it's a killer IPA with hops out the wazoo that balances dank and bitterness about as well as I can balance Hobbes philosophies on my tongue about 30 min into this bad boy. that is to say: well, but leaning towards bitterness.
Well done, Potter
Aug 11, 2020Well done, Potter
Reviewed by TheRougeBastard from North Carolina
4.1/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Does Clown Shoes ever miss the mark it's aiming for...nope IMHO! Not the hop bomb they may have been shooting for, but a very good triple IPA nonetheless!
2020 edition...better than I recall!
Feb 11, 20192020 edition...better than I recall!
Leviathan Triple IPA from Clown Shoes
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
50 ratings
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