Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Frederick, Maryland USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark amber. Aroma and taste are sweet caramel, malt and fruits. Good long finish.

Bottle at home. Dark dark red/brown - small offwhite head. Aroma: Brown sugar, syrup, raisins, dried dark fruits, light hoppy bitterness, grassy. Taste: Barley, sweetness, brown sugar, dark bread, citrus, light woody. Nice - not much obvious alcohol just a light alcho-burn !!

(Bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a small creamy beige head. Aroma of raisins, plums, and caramel. Flavor of hops, dark fruit, and vinous with a dry finish.

bottle at home ... dark amber ... thin lacing ... sweet toffeee vanilla nose ... typical US barley wine ... very sweet ... very vanillla ... toffeee sweeet malts ... light hop back ground ... ok

Bottle from Utobeer. Hazy ruby colour. Not sure that many hops really work with the malts which are syrupy nor the alcohol. Bit soapy on aroma. Hot alcohol and then some syrup and some very thing bitterness. Not a great barley wine. After JW Lees Harvest ale 2003, this is a bit uncultured and a bruiser. Hops are too metallic. fruit comes from the syrupy malts. Poor for its style. Would I have it again? No.

UPDATED: JUL 11, 2003 Completely muddled. Terrible structure problems, as alcohol, green apples and poorly extracted malts compete for attention. And where are the hops? Finishes like a durian smells.

UPDATED: DEC 31, 2012
Name: Horn Dog
Date: October 22, 2000
Mode: Bottle
Source: Chevy Chase, DC
Appearance: dark brown, watery headless appearance
Aroma: light malt aroma
Body: thin body
Flavor: rich malt flavor, hot alcoholic finish, slight hint of bitterness, mostly boring

Name: Horn Dog
Date: May 14, 2002
Source: Norms
Appearance: Hazy dark amber, frothy tan head
Aroma: sweet malty aroma
Flavor: rich malt flavor, high carbonation, lots of bitterness, a bit off

Name: Horn Dog
Date: April 27, 2005
Source: tasting
rich sweet fruity malt aroma and flavor, light bitter finish, hint of alcohol, too hot, an OK english bw, may improve with age

Aroma: 3/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 4/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.5/5.0
Score: * /4

The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

Bottle, 2007 vintage. It pours a nice ruby body, clear but hard to see through, with a minimal biege head. More just a broad ring of bubbles actually. When pouring, it’s not hard to detect it’s a barley wine, one can sense that it’s going to be a warming, sweet and hoppy beer. When sticking my nose into the glass, it sends out aromas of sweetish maltyness, dried fruits and dark berries, a cute little licorice scent, some hops, but not very much, and there’s a touch of bread too. In the mouth, the alcohol is very present, but in a pleasant way, due to the sticky sweetness? It has some syrupy qualities in the mouth. There’s also dried fruits and some berries, and a little bitterness from the hops, but it’s far from dominating. Some notes of pine and citrus though. A bready, roasted flavor and some licorice is also found, but that’s just in the background. It finishes rather sweet and malty, with the alcohol warming for a long time, suiting this cold May evening very well. Even though I like my barley wines low on hops, a little bit more wouldn’t hurt. But no problem, the beer works just fine, and gave me a nice half an hour of joy. Be sure not to serve it too cold, it needs some temperature to open up(080520)

Deep brown body with small beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dark fruit (plum). Taste is sweet, dark fruit (plum), caramel. Finish has a medium alcohol burn. Medium-full body.

[Tasting @ yespr] Hazy brown with large off white head. Sweet fruity and hoppy aroma with caramel and chocolate notes. Sweet flavor with fruity, hoppy and roasted malt notes. Caramel and chocolate notes as well. Ends bitter. Warming alcohol in the end.