Hair of the Dog Eve

Formerly brewed at Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Traditional Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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UPDATED: FEB 3, 2008 Bottled 1995 and given to CSA (RIP) at the brewery on 10-8-07 - thanks for sharing my friend, we will never forget you. Pours unclear dark brown with close to no head. Strong aroma of raison, dark fruits, dark chocolate, a bit of alcohol and plenty of cocoa. Delicious. Aroma is cocoa and raisin with a nice sweet candied note. Heavy and slick, rather fat mouthfeel. Alcohol biding end. I don’t find much sign of the 13 years, truly delicious.

Forgot I had this with Jeremy and Chris. Still plum body. Soft cardboard elements hint at severity of oxidation, behind which hides some chocolate, soy, and a bit of paper. Thin oily body, short bitter finish. Drank against ten vintages of Adam ranging 1-8 years of age, and none of complexity of those remains in Eve. Feel bad ticking such an old beer this low, especially when Adam is consistently 4.4+. This rating is intended as a cold bucket of water for all the Captain Ahabs out there still hoping the hunt is worthwhile.

Pour is a clear dark wine like red with no head. The nose is different, some sweet notes of berry, lightly oxidized, notes of chocolate, strange soy sauce. The taste is rough, salty, chocolate, boozy, vanilla, and a large amount of soy sauce. The Adam characteristics may be there, the body is lightly creamy with low carbonation if any.

Dark mahogany, mostly clear and a slight impression of lacing at certain moments. Nose is umami, soy sauce, old malt, rasins, seaweed. Ocean-like. Mouth is weirdly blank at first, then a pretty heavy seaweed, prune, raisin. Mostly still in the mouth, slick, oily feel. Interesting beer, probably past its prime.

Bottle shared by Ryan at the Philly tasting. Roasty caramel nose. Clear dark brown pour with no head. Lots of caramel, dark fruits, and a hint of sherry. Medium in body with nice balance.

2nd Brewery 07-08 Beer Road Trip with Bikesandbeer, 12/31/07 @ The Brewery with Alan Sprints. Alan was nice enough to give Kevin, Kevin’s Girlfriend Jessi a private tour and tasting on New Year’s Eve 07. Eve2 Bottle from Alan, Alan said this bottle was about 13 years old and damn it was aged nicely. Pours completely dark brown with thin tan ring. Nose is molasses sweet and sugary. Nose was sweet sugary viscous, really pretty damn nice and extremely special I’m so happy I could have some of this, the age really helped it achieve its greatness. Seems weird so many people here disagree with me.

I feel privileged to have had half a bottle. The description puts it in between Adam and Dave yet I like it less than both. It has a flavour that makes me think that when I grow up I may be able to develop a taste for it. Tastes like leather and very dry beef jerky. Very dark brown with tiny particulate. No head. Beef jerky and smoke aroma. Hints of molasses. Aggressive black smoke, soy sauce and beef jerky flavour. Not for the timid. Second sip the ABV comes through trying to thin the strong flavour. Doesn’t just bruise the palate, it attacks everything. ABV gets stronger and stronger.

(Bottle) Sampled at the post-GCBF party hosted by Oakes, "Big Beer Sampling". Fig juice, bourbon. High ABV detected. Bandaids, christmas pudding. Thin, deep, pure, alcoholic. Hardly flavourful - pure alcohol. Fig concentrate. Bitter finish with traces of molasses...

No head. No visible carbonation. Thick and syrupy. Cloying malt taste with terribly harsh alcohol heat. Contrary to everyone elses opinion, I wouldn’t waste my time again. If I want this harsh alcohol taste , I’ll drink Scotch, not beer

Just like Adam, this is a great beer. No carbonation. Dark amber color on the verge of brown. Big on sweetness and alcohol, with less smoke character than Adam. The sample I had was 8 years old, it was amazing.