Hair of the Dog Adam

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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Batch #70. Inky black pour with thin, wispy head has a rich nose of dark chocolate, nutmeg, and oak. Palate is smooth and full-bodied. Flavor is really remarkable with many excellent notes of dark malts: coffee, licorice, whiskey, more oak, and lots of roast. This is incredibly easy to drink considering how full-bodied and richly flavorful it is. One of the better, more unique dark brews I’ve enjoyed in a long time.

On tap to a 3oz taster Large aroma with malts, alcohol, spicyness, and chocolate kind of like a bourbon (with chocolate). Ours a dark chocolate brown. The taste is completely different...sweet beginning with a coffee/chocolate finish; some hoppy notes at the end.

Draft - Toasted malts, smoke, liquor, coffee and anise. Opaque dark brown with brown thin but lasting head. Creamy on the tongue, peaty with hints of coffee and dark chocolate. Lives up to its reputation.

Wonderful, smoked. So hop forward that it's a nice transition beer from the more malty ales. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours a super dark mohagany color with dense tan head that sticks to the glass. Smells malty, smokey and a little hoppy. Taste follows the nose with a bite of tartness in there as well. Finishes dry and crisp. Medium body and heartily carbonated. A nice brew that I would like to age more in the future to lower the hop bite.

Pours a very dark brown/ black color, a lot like an imperial stout. Aroma is deceptively light, hops are up from where if I was blindfolded I would think this is a sweeter dipa or a heavily hopped barley wine. Taste is sweet, malty and hoppy. Fruits are present and welcomed. Smooth for what it is, but I want to sip this one, great beer, I’ll have another

12oz bottle, Batch #84, into Bruery tulip. A - Pours dark brown, huge frothy kaki-colored head, sticky lace, big cap. S - Sweet dark fruits, oak, booze. Not quite as sweet as I was expecting. The oak and booze are pretty powerful at this point, it’s obvious to me I should have aged this bottle a bit more. T - Dark fruits, big oak, some char notes, astringent, and a bit medicinal. The booze isn’t quite as bad as I thought it was going to be. Finish is medicinal notes, and oak’d dark fruit. M - Full, perhaps a touch too much carbonation for me, dry oak finish. O - Now I know to age my bottles of Adam for quite some time before digging into them. I’ve had several from the late 90’s that were mind-blowing, but fresh, this isn’t my cup o’ tea.

pour is dark black, ruby edges, tan head and nice lace. The nose is nice, faint chocolate, tobacco, creamy vanilla, notes of olive and a bit of alcohol. The taste is chocolate, fair amount of olive, bread crust and fig, light bit pleasant heat with some citrus hop in the finish. The body isnt heavy, well carbonated, smooth and creamy.

On tap @ the brewery. Deep reddish brown brew with very little head. Very complex nose - chocolate, caramel malt, a hint of smoke, and pitted fruit. Flavor follows suit and is extremely decadent. Some sweetness, cherry, and smoke. Can’t wait to try this with some age on it.

Pours dark brown with a big tan head with good retention. Some lacing. Smells like sweet dark fruit and toasty with a hint of smoke. Taste is sweet and complex with dark fruits, fig, spice, wood, creamy milk chocolate and smoke. Full bodied. After taste is sweet and warm from the alcohol. Alcohol taste is hidden. Very good ale.

One of the best beers available today. The nose can be perceived from a foot or two away. Chocolate and baking spice. Full bodied, rich chocolate palate without the roasted aspect of stout or porter. Long, rich finish.