Hair of the Dog Fred

bottle (big thanks go to JFM for sharing this one) Light brown color with a small white head. Taste is of caramel & fruit. A really good strong barly wine.

Poured amber with a white head. Aroma of spice and candy. Sweet caramel with a hint of fruit and spice. Chewy.

After reading some other reviews, I definitely got a bad (flat) bottle of this. Poured a murky copper brown with zero head. Malty sweet, with raisins, prunes, brown sugar and caramel. Crazy thick - syrupy, with almost zero carbonation (again, I’m sure this was just the bottle I had). Somewhat like taking Samichlaus and subtracting 4%abv. Boozy sweet - very tasty - I’ll definitely pick up a bottle elsewhere and try it again with some carbonation.

Pours a deep orange, large white head. Sweet, citrus nose. Pleasingly sweet boozy flavor. Lots of grapefruit and hop sweetness. Great beer.

Batch 73. Pours an orange golden with a massive white head that lasts and lasts. Aroma is caramel, malt, honey, hops, citrus. Flavor is much the same caramel maltiness, honey, quite hoppy, citrus, some alcohol present in the long sticky bitter finish. Looking forward to the 08 FftW.

Batch 73. Damn! What a head on this beast. Three fingered riser that mushroomed up and over the top of my snifter. Great dexterity though as it never fell down the side. Looks like whipped cream on a milkshake. It eventually faded back to a singular, off-white puff that floated in the center of my glass for the duration. Pours a darkened, hazy shade of blood-orange and copper. I expected more from the nose on this one. Malt, brown sugar, pine sap, macerated pineapples, oranges, and peaches. There are slight tinges of alcohol running around but for the most part the nose is subdued. Flavor is more of the same but the candy sugar and brown sugar seems to stand out the most. It is creamy and slick with a mildly bitter, sappy finish.

Bottle courtesy of tpd975. Pours an orangish gold with a two finger head, lost of little bubbles rising to the surface and aromas that are intriguing, to say the least. Pineapples,oranges, caramel and light brown sugar make up the nose. Flavor is more of the same with quite a bit of honey sweetness and lots of fruitiness. This is a really interesting take on a barley wine.

Too damn malty for me. I need either a lot of age or a lot of hops on my barleywines. I’ve got another bottle sitting around, and I hope to revisit this one a few years down the road.