Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

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

Bottled. Dark brownish red coloured. Huge brown dense head. Aroma is quite bready and sweet. Has caramel notes and some ripe fruits like raisins and dades. A bit liqourice and alcohol notable. Flavour has some herbal notes. Is full fo liqourice and ripe fruits. A bit soapy. Has a light alcohol bite and a tad of a harsh note. Is medium bodied. Has some caramel and fruits in the end. Sweet and syrupy. Nice without standing out compared to other barley wines I’ve tried.

Pours brown with a thin off white head. Smells of sweet malt, some citrus, tea. Tastes very tea like with some dark fruity hints.

Bottle, 2007 vintage. It pours a nice ruby body, clear but hard to see through, with a minimal biege head. More just a broad ring of bubbles actually. When pouring, it’s not hard to detect it’s a barley wine, one can sense that it’s going to be a warming, sweet and hoppy beer. When sticking my nose into the glass, it sends out aromas of sweetish maltyness, dried fruits and dark berries, a cute little licorice scent, some hops, but not very much, and there’s a touch of bread too. In the mouth, the alcohol is very present, but in a pleasant way, due to the sticky sweetness? It has some syrupy qualities in the mouth. There’s also dried fruits and some berries, and a little bitterness from the hops, but it’s far from dominating. Some notes of pine and citrus though. A bready, roasted flavor and some licorice is also found, but that’s just in the background. It finishes rather sweet and malty, with the alcohol warming for a long time, suiting this cold May evening very well. Even though I like my barley wines low on hops, a little bit more wouldn’t hurt. But no problem, the beer works just fine, and gave me a nice half an hour of joy. Be sure not to serve it too cold, it needs some temperature to open up(080520)

12 oz bottle. Deep dark brown-orange beer with very little head. Nice aroma, malty oragne peel and a hint of molasses. Strong alcohol and resiny, piny hops. Flavour is quite good, starts of sweet and malty with caramel and molasses notes before a really pricky citrusy/resiny hop flavour comes through. This passes fairly quickly before a long plummy/pruny dried fruit finish takes over. Quite a nice barleywine.

Deep brown. Close to no head. Aroma of wood, almonds, and bad soy sauce. Tastes just as bad. Initially harsh and full of alcohol, it then mellows out, with a texture and taste of overripe dark fruit. Not enjoyable.

A smooth, drinkable barley wine, Horn Dog pours out dark with a minimal head that dissipates immediately. Deep roasted malt flavor with a hint of the chocolate and licorice mentioned in the commercial description. Good malty aroma. No hop bite. Very tasty.

A mid echelon barley wine. Lots of malt sweetness slightly balance with mild hops.

Bottle@Home. Aroma of molasses, orange, floral, fruity, hoppy, raisin. Orange/brown colour, small beige head, good lace. Very sweet, very bitter, hoppy, very malty, raisin, chestnuts. Flat, sticky and dry in the finish. Flavourful, just a bit too sweet and off balance in the fruitiness.