Hair of the Dog Fred

Brewed by Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter

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Pours a golden amber with a paperthin head that sticks around with good lacing throughout the drink. Aroma of sweet malts with caramel up front. Also raisins figs and dates with bitter hops in the back. Taste follows the nose but man is this sweet. Tasty but definitely a sipper. Hops are present but a bit overpowered by the malts. I’m glad I tried it and I can respect what they put together but not my personal favorite beer.

Bottle. Murky golden pour with a huge fluffy white head. Aroma is pine hop, bread, sweet sugary candy, and malt. Slick palate yet crisp with carbonation. Taste is rich caramel malt, resin, and sugary sweetness. Quite bitter mid-taste but finishes well balanced.

355ml bottle. Pours out amber with a modicum of head. Aroma has lots of phenolic, smokey and endless caramel notes. Taste is smooth buttery caramel mixed in with pine and fruit from the hops. When I say ’mixed in’ I should elaborate: the synergy between malt and hops here is astounding. They work in perfect harmony to create an incredible drinking experience. Neither element overwhelms, but they both contribute to the final product superbly. This big beer went down dangerously easily and left me with a huge grin on my face. Fantastic.

Drank this out of a bottle at DLD, bottle was from 1999. Yeah, 13 years aged. Aroma was subtle, with notes of toffee and a touch of chocolate. I enjoyed this, it was like a candy bar - sweet SKOR. My notes describe this as "amazeballs" which pretty much explained both how I felt that day, and that I should probably stop reviewing beers that day.

Bottle poured into my HOTD tulip glass. A - Pours deep amber orange with no head at all, only a tiny bit of foam around the edge of the glass, leaving no lace at all down the glass. S - Smells of caramel, butterscotch, vanilla, fruity yeast, oak and a good amount of alcohol. This one smells really sweet with some booze creeping in at the end of each sniff. T - Starts off with plenty of sugary sweetness that never really goes away. Hints of fruit, vanilla, oak and some dulled piney hops offer some break from the sweetness but it doesn’t last long. Finish is sweet with quite a bit of booze burn, lingering on the palate long after the finish. M - Smooth body with a ton of sweet flavors and moderately low carbonation, almost none really. There is still quite a bit of booze present in this one. O - I liked this one but it never really wow’d me in any way. The lack of carbonation really didn’t help either. I wouldn’t turn another down but I won’t be running out to get more.

Pours cloudy golden yellow with a white head. Some lacing. Hops, fresh baked bread, citrus and peach on the nose. Taste has fresh malt body with plenty of hops, and notes of grapefruit and some funk. Full bodied. After taste is hoppy and sweet. Well balanced and a great ale.

Goldern colour with a white head. Lots of grapefruit hop aroma and flavour.

Delicious sharp alcohol belgian candy sugar flavor. Very carbonated, but not remotely unpleasant. Superior brew.

Batch 84 Very dark-gold color. Hoppy but not so bitter. Nice balance between malts and hops. Very nice beer.

Bottle looks awesome golden brown fluffy white head. Tastes smells caramel hops maybe bit wood spice grapefruit. Not bad