Hair of the Dog Fred

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

Bottle. Nice sweet caramel and fruit aroma. Amber color with a small white head. Sweet full body with caramel, liquorice and alcohol notes. Nice smooth palate with a nice alcohol warmth.

Semi-clear, copper color with a small head and good lacing. Fairly strong yeast aroma with plenty of caramel malt and burnt sugar. Strong sense of yeast on the palate, with rye bread, caramel and some spiciness. Alcohol presence is strong. Full body, creamy texture, and a slight bitterness in the end that fights off the yeast.

Bottle thanks to my first trade with giarcsr batch # 71 poured the color of an apa not as dark as most barley wines in apperance, aromas of cotton candy,caramel malts rye,and hops taste is sweet of candied sugar and alcohol just amazing hope to get more of this in the future

12oz bottle. Pours a hazy, lightly particle filled bright, but dull orange body with a thin, off-white head that dissipates quickly and leaves a light, mostly oily lacing. Aroma is sweet and hoppy. Lots of wood, caramels, florals, and a mixture of fruits. Oranges, prunes, plums, lemons, berries, melons all coming together with a big hoppy, slightly sweet boozed nose. Quite complex. Flavor is big and tasty. Sweet, but very hoppy. Lots of wood with a light alcohol. Big time citrus and melon-prunes and very fruity. Lots of sweet and thicker caramels with a lot of lingering taste. Thick malty linger with lots of floral citrus hops. Palate is medium bodied, but fat with a light dryness. Overall, a damn good barley wine. Lots of taste, with a great mixture of sweet caramels, fruits, and hops. Mmm.

Bottle. Poured a hazy honey color. Aroma is complex, caramel, malt, wood. Flavor is sweet caramel with notes of raisin, toffee, hops, and maybe a touch of vanilla. This really is a good beer, love to try this one aged.

Thanks to BrewDad for this one!. Batch 73 done in side-by-side with ’07 Fred From the Wood. This one is ever so slightly lighter in color. It is a deep, cloudy orange with a huge rocky off-white head. Aroma is light hops, light citrus, floral notes, and light brown sugar. Flavor is black pepper and hops up front. Then melds into citrus hops, grapefruit and slight alcohol burn. I like this, it reminds me of one of my all time favorites (De Dolle Arabier) but with all the flavors intensified and with a fuller body. Much less sweet and more effervescent than the from the wood. A bit easier to drink as well. The From the wood is more of a sipper for me.

12 oz. Peach nose which is nay zee. Taste is an amazing peach and creme underneath malts, booze, and toasty malts and caramel. I really like this.

Batch 73. Pours a copper orange with a huge, everlasting head. Aroma is hoppy, sweet, floral, of peach/apricot, a little spicy. Once you devour a lot of foam, you can actually taste it; It is very DIPA-ish; bitter hops, sweet fruit, flora, and then bitter again at the end. Very different from your average barleywine. Again, tastes like a Double IPA. No matter what it’s classified as, it’s pretty good. Palate is a little sticky, a little carbonated, not too special. Booze is around the whole time, but never overpowering. Different, unorthodox, but satisfying. Overall, very good minus.