Hair of the Dog Fred

Deep golden color with a medium off-white head. Aroma is of hops, citrus, and fresh fruit, with a hint of caramel. Flavor is fruity, sweet, mildly hoppy with spiciness and a subtle rye flavor. Warming alcohol character.

Thanks to Santa for this one. Pours out a very nice slightly reddish golden color with a nice lacing head. Aroma is of some nice sweet fruits with slight bitterness. Taste is complex with sweet fruits, sugar, earth and some slight bitterness, the alcohol on this one doesn’t creep up until the finish. Very solid.

Bottle: Hazy red colour,,flat head. Aroma of raisins,caramel,alcy,dust, and some viny nose in the end. Flavor is almost the same. Medium to big caramelly body.Medium fruity finish. This was a nice beer indeed!

Bottle, thanks to emacgee. Label said "GOLDEN SPECIAL ALE," so I was surprised by the appearance and aroma, but pleasantly so. Deep amber, clear at first, but a bit cloudy after pouring in just a touch of the sediment. Medium off-white head. Smelled closer to a barley wine with notes of a good quad. A good bit of hops present, a bit of spiciness, and yeast and fruits and lots of malt and burnt sugar. Similar on the palate. Cotton candy fruity sweetness, hops, malt; alcohol pretty well hidden given the strength. I’m not a huge barley wine guy, but this was quite good. Can see how aging would work wonders.

poured after a tough day on the trail .... wow, is a yummy beer, melts in your mouth and brain ... lots of sweetness ... alcohol is pretty well hidden ... good lacing ... can tell the candy sugar is in there ... is a very nice beer that is just damn enjoyable, would love to try the wood aged...

I have been holding on to this for a while and felt it was time to try it poured a dark brown and with a thick sticky look and feel to it that had a nice tan head,the taste was a caramel malty and a strong alcohol kick to it i am not a big fan of barley wines but this was not bad at all.CHEERS!

Pours caramel brown with a sustained white head. Smells of bananas, vanilla, fresh strawberries, lots of spicy awesomeness. Tastes of dry malt, lots of caramel, some nice spiciness, citrussy hints, piney touches, touches of sweet malt on the finish. The Alcohol is not perceivable on this. This is a great beer!

Bouteille de 355 ml partagé avec jerc et Mabel, à Volo (Toronto), le 12/7/08. Ambrée brumeuse, peu de collet. Arome de porto caramelisé, bien malté. Goût bien alcoolisé, malte caramelisé et très savoureuse. Débile au boute!