Hair of the Dog 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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Bottle. Medium orange red color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy vintage, fruity - date, wood, toffee, tobac, alcohol. Flavor is heavy to moderate sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily - syrupy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. ;o)) (220108)

A hazy amber beer with a thin though dense off-white head. The aroma is sweet alcoholic combined with notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet with powerful notes of alcohol and caramel. And the body is thick - a bit like drinking a mixture of molten caramel and alcohol. Nice Barley Wine.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Slightly hazy amber golden with a dense, creamy, yellowish head leaving a pretty lacework. Sweet - somewhat medicinal - oak aroma. Very full-bodied, sweetish malty - caramel - and then a distinct, hoppy finish. Lovely. Courtesy of Storm. 120207

12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours clear and golden orange with a slowly diminishing white head. Wineous and fruity maty aroma. Flavour is sweet and vanilla with a distinct hoppy note coming through. Sweet malty and slight roasted malty into a smooth finish. Lingering sweet flavoured.

Bottled@Olutkellari Helsinki. Deep reddish brown colour, mediumsized beige creamy head. Aroma is fruity, sugary, alcoholic and some hints of some nectary and vanilllaish notes. Flavour is quite sweet nectary and wooden notes along with vanilla, alcohol and some nice fruity notes.

UPDATED: FEB 14, 2007 Bottle. Cloudy golden coloured with an off white head. Aroma of fruits, vanilla, oak and wood. Flavour of fruits, caramel, oak, vanilla and hops.

Bottle. Aroma very much of vanilla. Cloudy orange colour, small head. The flavour is nice, there is some vanilla, fruit, wood and cigar box. A bit of sourness, but that balances the sweetness. Good mouthfeel, probably due to the alcohol content.

2008-02-15, bottle brewed 2007
Parallel tasting with Fred
Dark amber color, just a shade darker than the regular Fred; this one is more carbonated and produces a medium layer of creamy foam. Its aroma shows clearly the vanilla before anything else, powerful, sweet, mellow; fudge; one of the best vanilla aroma ever; harmonious. It has a good body structure, with an excellent mix of flavors: malt, caramel, toffee, vanilla, wood… they are all balanced; sweet as it should be, but still with a powerful and good hopping, leading to a long final where the bitterness (maybe stronger than in the regular Fred) is complemented by a good caramel flavor, a touch of vanilla and some alcohol warmth. Side to side, it wins over the regular Fred. More than excellent!

UPDATED: FEB 25, 2012
Date: June 18, 2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Noog I
Vintage: #64
Appearance: opaque brown, headless
Aroma: huge woody vanilla aroma
Flavor: flavor is all wood, lots of vanilla, lots of ripe fruit from the dark malts, well balanced bitterness, a hint of alcohol after warming

Date: June 13, 2006
Mode: bottle
Vintage: batch 64
Appearance: opaque copper, thin fine head leaving some nice lace
Aroma: huge oak aroma with tart woody character, a trace of alcohol shows in the aroma from time to time
Flavor: flavor is very smooth and balanced, mellow carmel malt, picking up traces of ripe fruit, nice earthy hops with a long bitter finish that lasts forever, very dry, initial kick of alcohol mid way through that settles down and does not reappear

Date: February 01, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta
Vintage: #64
Score: iii
vanilla sweetness is getting thick and sweet, lots of fruit and wood, aging nicely

Date: February 29, 2008
Mode: bottle
Vintage: batch 64
Score: 4.0 to 4.3
Aroma: smokey oak aroma with dry caramel, fleeting hint of tartness, touch of peppery alcohol
Body: very creamy yet sticky body
Flavor: flavor is a strong yet well balanced oak and caramel, fruity character adds more complexity, underlying sticky caramel and vanilla sweetness that continues to grow but the oak stays in step, touch of alcohol in the form of hot caramel, earthyness adds balance but the sweetness eventually wins

Date: February 07, 2012
Mode: bottle
Source: cellar stock
Vintage: #64
Aroma: sweet oaky aroma, caramel and vanilla, earthy
Flavor: sweet candied oak flavor, caramel sweetness, touch of fruit, earthy oak, light spicyness, no alcohol
Overall: continues to age and mellow nicely but the oak will never lose control

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 9/10; Overall: 18/20
Rating: 4.3/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **** /4

Name: Fred From The Wood
Date: May 23, 2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Vintage: 2007
Appearance: hazy amber, fine dirty white head, webby lace
Aroma: big sweet oak and valilla aroma with a nice caramel undercurrent, the oak aroma just gets bigger and bigger
Flavor: lots of hot buttered caramel flavor and a ton of woody oak, light and lasting bitterness, sweet vanilla comes in for balance

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *** /4

I would like to rerate this beer.

UPDATED: JAN 27, 2009 Hazy amber with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with ripe fruitas, hops and caramel notes. Flavour is sweet andfull bodied with toasted malt, caramel and hoppy notes. Finished bitter with warming alcohol. Very good.