Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Frederick, Maryland USA

Bottle. Clear dark amber colour with a small off white head. Powerful malty body with lots of caramel, fruits and citrus. Lasting finish.

12 oz bottle. Pours a darker golden amber color. Aroma of warm alcohol, malts, and hops. Flavor is a malty, citrus beverage that is relatively smooth for such a high alcohol content beer. Finish is sweet.

Pours a muddy apricot amber, with light haze and almost no head. Sort of an ominous looking potion. Aroma is more hoppy than any other Barley Wine I have had. Smells much more similar to an ASA than a Barley Wine. Palate is smooth and soft then builds to a bigger taste by mid-palate. Flavor is really hard to describe, unfortuately. When Horn Dog hits your lips it comes across as gently malty, perhaps complemented with some salted nuts, and milk chocolate. It is quite muddy, really. Towards the finish, a firmly alcoholic note appears out of nowhere to disrupt an otherwise solid blend of fruit and hops. Finish is spicy, yet the flavor that lingers in your mouth is not particularly sharp. I am just now finishing this beer without yet wrapping my head around it. I’ll settle for saying that while it is tasty and easily drinkable, many crucial aspects of this Barley Wine fail to materialize into anything very memorable.

Horn dog pours a nice dark golden brown with a small fading head and that’s a-ok! Nose is of caramel, slight chocolate, and a faint citrus. flavor is very smooth, and it seems as though the hops really want to come thru. Think toasted caramel,light nut,married with a hint of dark chocolate. Nice and full bodied with a long finish. Great now & i can only imagine better with age!

Aroma is rich and has hints of licorice, orange and chocolate; it lacks the alcohol nip that I have gotten from most barley wines. Color is a clear mahogany with a fairly thick and persistent yellowish-beige head. Flavor is mainly malty and has ribbons of burnt caramel, unsweetened chocolate and hops; alcohol bite is not very noticeable, which is a plus. Texture is very smooth, and aftertaste has equal amounts of sweetness and hoppy bitterness.

Bottled(355ml). -Brown coloured, medium sized off-white head, toffee nose. Sweet malty, strong caramel and hops taste with sharp alcohol and notes of licorice and dried fruits. Bitter alcoholic finish.

2007 Vintage. Bottle courtesy of kmweaver. Thanks for this nice bonus, Ken. Pours a hazy mahogany with a creamy light tan head and sticky cascading lace. The nose is of slightly boozy fermenting plums, raisins, brown sugar and light spicy hops. Medium-bodied and creamy-slick with a dry "warm" finish. The flavor is fairly alcohol-forward with solid fruity notes that follow the nose, finishing with a dry, moderately spicy hopped finish. This bottle might have benefited from a bit more aging. It’s not a bad beer, but it isn’t an especially inspired barley wine either.

Pours a hazy amber. The nose is a very strong cabernet with subtle notes of malt. Comes across the palate with a semi-sweet cabernet flavor with a bitter after taste, your palate eventually adjusts so its not so bitter.