Hair of the Dog Adam

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

Bottled. Aroma has a lot of raisin and other dried fruitiness. Dark brown coloured with a thin off-white head. Taste is sweet, slightly bitter, has rasin maltiness, fruits, madeira/cognac. Nice stuff.

The beer is black with a huge brown head! In the aroma there is figs, roasted barley (very roasted) and alcohol. Flavor is of figs, and roasted barley sweet, with a slight burn from the alcohol.

pours a very dark brown with almost no head which is true to the style. taste is of fermented fruit and caramel. finish is very smooth. I would love to drink this again.

Bottle. Third try on this beer, first one not infected. (Batch 71) Pours black with lots of nice ruby edges and a small beige head. Aroma is smoky, sweet and rich. Lots of vinous notes, chocolate, and some alcohol. Flavor is so good, insane chocolate, dark fruit, sweet malts, Irish whisky. Crunchy awesome flavor. Gets a bit too sweet by the end of the bottle for my taste, but a very excellent beer.

Purchased at Belmont Station in a 12oz. bottle. This was my first barleywine, and the relatively low score may be a personal distaste. The label lists flavors of chocolate, smoke, figs, and leather. I picked up STRONG notes of smoke and figs, but not the chocolate, which might have balanced things out. Dark opaque color, enormous head with a long life.

Bottle. Huge beige creamy head that mostly lasted. Good display of lacework. Very dark mahogany like color. Aroma was heavy complex with notes of vinous, raisins, prunes, light toasted malt, caramel and mix of other dried fruity notes. Also light alcoholic, nutty, chocolate, fig and even a hint of smoke in there somewhere. Over the palate came nice underlying hoppy notes. Full boded with a soft carbonation and thick alcoholic texture. Heavy sweet flavor with good counter bitterness. Lingering prickling alcoholic warming malty and dried fruity finish. Excellent beer.

355 ml bottle. Dark brown body, almost black with a beige head. Aroma is sweet malty, slightly roasted, fruity, liquorices and chocolate. A long and pleasant finish. Harmonic, tasty, warm and delicious.

BATCH 68 purchased at NYC Whole Foods, prized contents poured into a Duvel tulip glass. Appearance is a pitch black hue, large brown hue dissipates to a modest layer of tight bubbles, moderate lacing. Smell is dominated by smokey roast a la a Rauchbier, tones of chocolate and anise, some wood, whiskey, dark fruits, and caramel. Taste is full of smoke and roasted malts, followed by raisins and other dark fruits, sprinkles of anise and chocolate marshmallow, hints of wood and booze, finishes syrupy sweet like molasses. Mouthfeel is full-bodied, thick and creamy texture, mild to moderate carbonation. Drinkability is moderately high, this presents as a nicely sweetened version of a rauchbier with a bit more fruit and syrupy essence, this too would be amazing with smoked meats and bbq, definitely a must try from Portland.