Hair of the Dog Bourbon Fred from the Wood

Brewed by Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter

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2011 Bottle. Thanks to Hallinghansen. Pours cloudy dark orange with bubbles on top. Aroma is complex and delicious. Wood, bourbon, vanilla, fruit and hops. Flavor is smooth and vinous. Dark fruit, oak, vanilla and a pleasant alcohol warmth. Slick and vaguely sticky. Waauw - delicious! Thanks Jacob!

Bottle shared by Marcus. Pours hazy dark amber with no head. Aroma is bourbon and alcohol. Full bodied. Flavor is brown sugar and bourbon. There’s also almond, toffee and rye, but the bourbon is primary. Great finish on the sweet side. Very tasty.

Bottle… Cloudy caramel-colored ale with no head. The nose offers up notes of caramel, raw oak and bourbon. Full-bodied and lightly creamy with subdued carbonation. Sweet, malty flavor with lots of caramel and bourbon flavor, but not a lot of alcohol heat. Sweet, warming, caramel finish. Bottle generously shared by landhoney!

2011 bottle thanks to billshmeinke. Had hopes for some carbonation as there were bubbles in the neck of the bottle. Sadly they stayed there. Murky/hazed brown pour with a few stray bubbles. Some alcohol legs. Aromas are musty, bourbon, vanilla, saw dust. Very spicy oak impression (wonder what barrels they used). Alcohol, brown sugar. Medium esters and some minerals. Flavors show massive caramelization, brown sugar and maple syrup. Vanillin, spicy barrel, fruity with some currants. Thick and syrupy with mild carbonation. Warming. Tasty but would have been better with more bubbles. Good.

UPDATED: MAY 5, 2011 draft at the brewery taproom. cloudy brown body with a thin beige head. aroma, flavor and texture are all surprisingly similar to 2008 and 2009 batches of fred from the wood, which spent time in new american oak barrels, with no infusion of bourbon at all - the vanilla, honey and toffee character is very close to memories of FFTW, though i’m sure having them side-by-side would amplify the differences. thick body with resinous wood oil character, but with only minor bourbon influence. the wood is actually more noticeable, again, similar to the non-bourbon FFTW. hugely sweet, sticky, resinous and chewy with minor notes of alcohol. thoroughly enjoyable and well-made, though i find the sweetness of Fred and all of it’s treatments less suited for my palate as my tastes change in favor of dryness over sweetness. barley wine rating #200.

A cognac of beers. Chocolate and vanilla, like that Sam Adams beer. A sipper, rich and worthwhile seeking out. Complex bourbon aroma.

Bottle poured a hazy amber with a lingering ring of amber bubbles. Aromas of bourbon, oak, vanilla, carmel and a hint of fruittiness. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of bourbon, oak, vanilla, carmel, toffee and light fruittiness with a smooth lingering bourbon finish.

Cloudy brown. Aroma is very sweet, bourbon, alcohol, brown sugar. Flavor is quite sweet, oaky, bourbon, raisins, and a finish of alcohol and hops.

Sampled from 12-oz bottle and shared by Dudeski. Pours a hazy amber colored brew with a fast disappearing off-white head that leaves no lacing nor any film top. Aroma of bourbon, tropical fruit, hint of vanilla and apple cider. Taste is medium bodied, plenty of bourbon flavors with vanilla, caramel malt and tart apple. Bourbon flavor profile is well-present throughout.

Nose of big bourbon, pear, green apple, honey, some peppery spice, alcohol. Nice aroma. Pours hazy golden orange amber with no head or carbonation. Kind of dont mind it though with this big ass beer. Flavors of bourbon up front, fruity malt sweetness, fruit cake perhaps, pear, apple, sweet bread, peppery wood, grain. Sweet, almost viscuous, no bubbles. Nice but with a little carb would be fucking awesome.