Hair of the Dog Bob

Brewed by Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Lambic Style - Fruit
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Flute, Stem glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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On tap on 2-24-12. From notes. Appearance is a deep orange with thin lacing. Aroma consists of a sharp raspberries mixed with the apricots. Can definitely tell this is a tart one from the nose. The taste is quite delicious. Apricots, blood oranges, raspberries, and more. There’s a slight amount of acetone, but in small enough amounts to add to the taste. Palate is effervescent and crisp. Once it hits the tongue, the beer expands across the palate and the roof of the mouth. Overall, I waited far too long and missed this too many times, so I might have been too excited to try it, but it’s a great beer and Alan should make more.

Tasted at a beer dinner at Hair of the Dog with Alan and Sean Paxton. This beer is a slightly hazy orangish pink color. The nose is very tangy fruity with the raspberries and cherries really standing out. There is just a hint of hops and malt. The body is rich and the acidity is well balanced with the tangy fruit flavors shining through till the finish. This beer tasted amazingly fresh considering it’s age. Very fun.

cask. This poured a murky burnt orange with floaters and obviously no head. Aroma is wood apricot light sourness and earthiness. This is not puckeringly sour but tart on the tongue and a little sour burn in the throat, I like the balanced sourness with the wood and fruit flavors. Thd fruit is there but nothing hits you over the head. i enjoyed this beer and would like to try it with carbonation.

UPDATED: JUL 23, 2011 Cask pour @ Hair of the Dog... Poured pinkish/orange with a thin white head and floating fruit chunks. Nose had some funk, horse blanket, sweaty tones, with light fruits. Very dry, mild carbonation. Slight burning and souring qualities. Strong fruit flavors, apricots, berries that were sweet and tangy. Citrus tones too. Some oak and woody qualities. A little bit of acetone but it was well tamed. Horse blanket, feety towards the end.

Draft Brouwer’s Big Wood 09. Huge pink ruby, tightest thin head. Huge nose, cutting sour malt. Rush of salmony, raspberry/strawberry flavor. Fresh, very forward. Red, tasty, special. Not as hot or popping as a Cantillon but an amazing American sour.

On tap at Brouwer’s Big Wood 09. Poured reddish pink with a dense, white head. Cherries and raspberries, with lots of grassy grain to counter. Apples, sweet fruits - it develops *beautifully* in your mouth. It moves from fruity (citrus and peach, cherries and raspberries) to grassy. Full, wonderful mouthfeel. Fantastic.

slightly vinegar palate eddish orange hue with no tinge of head lightly soured aroma.

Raspberry apricot and pie cherry aroma, dark rose in the glass I’m getting excited. rose petal dryness, more pie cherry, utopian cough syrup. lemongrass, light bodied beauty

Draft at Bigwood 09. Clear ruby golden with a halo ring of a head in my sniffer. Tart woody nose with a touch of chaulk, tart cherries, cherry pit, some almond, oak. Carbonation feel is a bit light, but body is right for the style. It has all the nose characteristics/flavors going on!...kick ass. Tart white balsamic, a big French oak flavor, the tartness is dry and chaulky...so good. Thanks Alan!

draft at bigwood. pours a crystal clear medium amber with rubies at the edges. no head, lace, or legs. beautiful big cherry nose. creamy, almost slippery medium body. cherry, vanilla, wood, lemon, and a bit of balsamic on the mid palate. maybe a bit of floral and rosey notes. long krieky finish.