Hair of the Dog Fred

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

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle. Batch #65. Clear amber color with a small fizzy virtually none off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, ligth to moderate hoppy, moderate alcoholic. Initial flavor is heavy sweet and moderate bitter, finish flavor is moderate sweet and heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic.

UPDATED: MAR 5, 2007 [Batch #1, drunk with Fred Eckhardt at GBBF 2004] A brown slightly hazy beer with a fine orange head. The aroma is of pudding and wood, clearly a well matured beer. The flavor is of alcohol, caramel, wood, and pudding with a dry woody end. A great beer - especially when aged.

Batch 63, sampled February 2006. An unclear amber beer with a thin orange head. The aroma is very complex, and very hoppy, but also with a light touch of alcohol. The flavor is very hoppy especially notes of grapefruit comes thru, leading to a dry bitter end. The body is very thick. I like the aged version best. [8/3/8/4/17]

UPDATED: JUL 31, 2008 (Bottle 35,5 cl) Clear, dark amber golden with a small, off-white head. Distinct and fat hop aroma. Very solid body with lots of caramel malt, fruitiness and a shipload of aroma hops. Somewhat medicinal accents. Hoppy, bitter finish. Courtesy of Storm. 120207 and 260708

From bottle #17 at sk8vikings American blind tasting. Pours hazy to murky orange with yeast sediments and a fully diminished white head. Wineous ad slight woody hops aroma. Flavour is sweet caramelish and smooth. Lingering finish of yeast and caramel, hops ad smooth bitterness. Ends warming and slight spiced.

Bottled (Batch 63, thanks kenb!). Hazy nut brown colour with big foamy off-white head, leaves much lace. Aroma is lots of hops, caramel, some alcohol, yeast and fruits. Flavour is fruits, hops, slight alcohol and spices. A very nice beer, as nothing hits you as if it attacks you, but comes very smoothly creeping. Complex and smooth, both in aroma and flavour. Totally kickass!

Pale. Very sweet. Bitter. Raisin and toffee flavours.

UPDATED: JUN 14, 2005 Bottled. Hazy orange coloured with a lacing beige head. Sweet aroma of malts, alcohol and hops. Nice sweet flavour with lots of malts, hops and dried fruit. Nice long bitter finish.

Bottle, 10%. Creamy and malty aroma, hint of vanilla. Muddy caramel colour. Small creamy white head. The flavour is quite bitter, but also sweet. Some alcohol to balance along with teaish hops and vanilla. Slick mouthfeel, almost slimy.

UPDATED: JUN 8, 2008 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.

UPDATED: OCT 12, 2008 Name: Fred #14
Date: 02/20/1999
Mode: Bottle Conditioned
Source: Beer by Mail

Appearance: hazy amber, whispy head
Aroma: funky malt aroma
Flavor: rich malt flavor, touch of bitterness, funky hotd character, slighly fruity
-------- /> Name: Fred #14
Date: 05/19/2006
Vintage: batch 14

Appearance: hazy amber with a red tint
Aroma: sweet hot malt aroma with a bit of fruit
Flavor: big sweet carmel malt flavor, hot alcohol in the finish that takes a while to fade, touch of wood,
-------- /> Name: Fred #14
Date: 06/11/2006
Source: tasting
Vintage: batch 56

picking up some earthy oaky character in the aroma

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4