Hair of the Dog Adam

Brewed by Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Traditional Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

(Bottle at Esplanadi, Tampere, on 2009-07-17) Reddish brown and almost clear. Medium sized and lightly tan coloured head. Figs and malts in aroma. Full bodied palate with little carbonation. Roastedness, malts, smoke, sweetness, chocolate, bitterness, molasses, salty liquorice and lightly sourness in taste. Malty, sweet and bitter aftertaste.

Strong, powerfull like a quadruppel. Dark brown colour, beige head, fully lasting. Sweet aroma, laqurice, malt, pure grain. Flavor is great, long lasting, dark fruits, heavy. Full body. Syrupy texture.

Fantastic beer that’s thicker than glue. Tons of figs, chocolate, toffee, prunes, cherries, blueberries, dirt, and coffee on the swallow. About every flavor you could imagine. Soo many flavors. And this beer is thick thick thick. It’s like a barley wine with corn starch added to thicken the wort. Fantastic, but I’m pretty sure the drinkability would be as close to none as ever a beer was. I’m so glad I got to try it though. WOrld class for sure.

Dark brown, nearly black beer under dark beige-brown, dense head, pouring viscously. Roasted coffee malts, and, if fleetingly, good C-hops. Very roasted, near burnt flavour; coffee, lightly sweetened, black chocolate sauce. Viscous, totally slick, totally full-bodied, faint burning sensation. Well-balanced for such a powerful beer. One of the first USA microbrews first tasted, many years ago. What might be Dortmunder about this ale, beat me - until Alan S. enlightened me about a claimed 10% Dortmunder ale, several centuries ago.

Pours hazy brown with tons of beige head. Aroma is mainly coffee taste is prunes, chocolate and coffee beans. Alcohol is hidden well with this one. I need more of this great brew.

One of my alltime favourites. Fat and sweet yet with a balanced finish. Flavour and aroma of caramell, leather, light smoke, chocolate, dark fruit and spicy subtile hops. Warming and perfectly balanced.

Original review date 8/16/2008... Batch 70 into Coronado pint... Pours like a mix of molasses and apple cider with no visible carbonation. Like treacle? Lots of apples and dark caramel with some cinnamon-it’s very good and powerful. Whoa camel-deep caramel and coffee notes. Nice alcohol burn counters supreme heft-this is old school nasty stuff. Raisins, piney hops, even figs are in there. Syrupy thick-even finish and feel, top to bottom. Heavy? Yes. Enjoyable? Absolutely. Coffee bean feel provides nice afterburn. This is definitely a sipper. Good nitecap.

Drank this in front of back yard fire on a summer evening while wrapped around my girlfriend. And it just got better after. such an amazing beer, I see why it gets such good rankings. Its this syrupy alcoholic, sweet mess. Kind of like a stout, barleywine, and heatlhy dose of chocolate malts. Tastes like rich dark mahogany candy, and then a little hop nose. I wouldn’t want to drink too many at once or too often, but for a nice evening can’t be beat.