Hair of the Dog Fred

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

(Batch #65) Brown-yellow colored, strongly hazy appearance. Little yellow head. Raisins dominate this strong aroma with chocolate, toffee, medium alcohol and some grains. Full bodied, safty palate. Flavor starts with sweetness and added sugar notes, fruits and raisins dominating, hops also with chocolate here. Aftertaste has strong sweetness with rich hops, plenty of everything here.

Bottle @ jbrus’s place. Strong vinous aroma with fresh cheese, banana and melon. Syrupy mouthfeel. Strong hopbitter flavor matched with tropical fruit and then returning in the almost oily hopbitter aftertaste. Rather alcoholic, but not annoying.

Feb. 2007 - Caramel color, big head, lacing. Aroma was caramel and hops. Flavor was strong caramel, big hops. Very similar to Bigfoot, but slightly less sweet, slightly less hoppy

2008-05-09, bottle batch 65, at Ølbaren, 8-5-9-5-17=44
The aroma also has old wood and a touch like cellar, it reminds me of some old house. Excellent mix of caramel (prevaling) and malt flavor, getting chewy if it loses some carbonation. Powerful final, well balanced between caramel, bitterness, alcohol. It’s a democracy, in which the caramel is the prime minister.

2008-02-15, bottle batch 69, 8-5-9-5-17=44
Parallel tasting with Fred from the Wood
Beautiful color, red-amber, almost still, with a oily surface and lonely bubbles. It has a strong malty aroma, mature at times, with sweet wood too; the aroma fades out, good but not impressive. It has a medium-strong body, with an excellent malt caramel and toffee flavor, powerful, rich. Strong bitterness, but leaving the scene to the malt, and just a bit of alcohol warmth, to complement it. A state of the art Barley Wine. It’s less complex than the draught that I had, and less impressive than the Fred From the Wood, but still excellent!

2007-01-01, draught at d.b.a., NYC, 9-5-9-5-18=46
Hazy amber color.
The aroma is malty, with caramel, but also vinous (winy), very light phenol and glue; raisins and vanilla.
Full mouthfeel, full malt flavor, caramel, light toffee, good hopping (European), light wood character, extremely well balanced.
In the final the hop is more aromatic and with caramel.
Excellent.

[Bottle @ plan b to Celebrate Claus new Night Club] Hazy orange with tiny off white head. Fruity and hoppy aroma with notes of grapefruit, alcohol and wood. Sweet fruity flavor with caramel, wood, alcohol and powerfull hoppy notes. Ends dry and bitter. Rather vinious. Thanks and congrats Claus!

12 oz. bottle, batch # 69. Pours a beautifiul amber color with an off-white foamy head. Just the right amount of hops, and there seems to be a slight honey flavor.

12oz bottle, Batch #66. Pours a murky burnt orange color with a dense white head. Not super thick, but once it settles it is very dense and creamy. Smells of orange peels and bready yeast. Tastes spicy up front and bitter with some booze on the finish.Thick mouthfeel, nice carbonation. Slow drinkin’ brew right here.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy light caramel. No light passes through this baby. There’s a good two inches of white head sitting on top of this golden brew, and crazy cotton-like lacing remains. Awesome. Aroma is bright citrus, raisins, watermelon, cherry, rum, cider. Flavor is fan-fucking-tastic. Raisin, apricot, sweet sweet malts, peach, warm alcohol, caramel. WOW. Syrupy on the tongue. Bitter finish, incredible mouthfeel. Very warming. One of the best tasting beers I’ve had.