Hair of the Dog Cherry Adam from the Wood

Brewed by Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Traditional Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

bottle. pours reddish brown with zero zillch head. aroma of bourbon and cherry. taste is cherry flavored bourbon slight vanilla and lots of booze

12 oz bottle courtesy of a box from MvW. Thanks, buddy! A beer I’ve been anticipating for awhile. 2011 Vintage. Pours a dark ruby brown hue, almost opaque with a touch of reddish brown glow on the edges. No real carbonation whatsoever, as some loose bubbles die to a nonexistent head. Aromas are quite rich, offering loads of toffee and oak, vanilla, spice. Caramel, biscuits, touches of toast, dark fruit offering of raisins and black cherries. More oak, a waft of heat, and more oak, gentle spirit. Fairly sweet slanted. Initial is fuller bodied, offering slick sticky malts up front, biscuits and caramel, toast, bread, gentle oak and vanilla tannins, moving into a middle of decadent black cherries, touches of dark fruit plum and raisin. More vanilla, oak, sweet sticky malts and a gentle yeasty spice. The cherry and dark fruit element grows, fairly strong though not medicinal. Some dry cocoa and vinous qualities as it warms more. Fairly complex as it goes. Some powerful flavors, gentle barrel flavor grows into the back as it finishes and warms a bit more. A touch buttery and quite oaky, lots of cherry, touch of dryness, heat, and spice linger on the finish. Not bad, a touch nutty, sticky yet silky. Pretty pleasant, lack of carbonation causes a lesser experience due to low mouthfeel. A bit dissappointed in this, but the problems seem to spawn from the carbonation issues.. Not the beer itself. Still a pretty solid beer despite the issue, but I can imagine some carbonation boosting this bad boy several points.

Small gathering at Cam’s for goodies.2nd time I had it and it gets better each time A-maroon almost with no head whatsoever S-wood is definitely prominent and goes down so ssmooth T-almost tastes like a port mixed with a beer. Maybe sherry? M-medium body and crazy good O-wow just wow. No more words

Notes from a tasting in April 2011. Thanks to Sam for this one.
Aroma: cherries, other dark stone fruits, roasted malts, chocolate, vanilla, bourbon.
Taste: Chocolate, cherries, dark fruits, roasted malts
Overall: A rich decadent beer. Sweet finish which I do not really care for. I could not have more then a few ounces of this beer.

Courtesy of rayl101. Mahogany/brown, no head, slick/oily. Aroma is full of maple/bourbon sweetness, alcohol, can’t pick up any fruit. Flavor has big malts up front, light tart through the middle, finishes hot, tons of bourbon, warming. Oily mouthfeel, again warming. Not my thing.

[bottle] shared by Armin. Thanks! I’ve always been disappointed with this beer in the past, so I’m not expecting too much. Pours an absolutely beautiful, super deep burgundy with a minimal soapy head. Aroma is absolutely stunning. Tart cherry, chocolate, spicy alcohol, a touch of spice, a little olive... Flavor is cherry pits, fleshy dark fruits, light tannin, some smoke, light chocolate, lightly dusty. Holy Christ this is amazing. Bravo, Mr. Sprints.

2011 bottle pour, big thanks to Azurescens! Pour is dark brownish burgundy, almost purple with almost no head. Aroma has notes of cherry wood, vanilla, oak, toffee, caramel, brown sugar and molasses notes, big sherry and slight brandy notes, woody vanilla, and some interesting dark fruit as well. Wow. Taste is unreal, with notes of chocolate covered cherry, big sherry, brandy, slight vanilla, oak, toffee, hints of nice dark fruit, booze soaked raisin and plums, molasses and brown sugars go into some really nice drying oak. Wow, this is unbelievably good.

Bottle pour from Armin. #2 in the horizontal tonight...thanks man! Pour is a beautiful burgundy purple, with no head, no lacing, slight alcohol legs. Aroma is just amazing. Huge booze soaked dark fruits, light sweet jammy cherries, lots of vanilla, lots of brown sugar. Slight oak. Taste is...wow. Lots of syrupy cherry sweetness, with tons of vanilla, oak, a good slug of dark candi syrup. Some chocolate on the end mixed with some wood as well. Just fantastic. Slight bit of carbonation, just enough to make the tongue prickle. Great, great beer.