Hair of the Dog Adam

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

Bottle. Ap: Black, creamy beige long lasting head. Small lacing. Ar: Hops, soy, dark chocolate, bourbon, leather, wood, vineager.. Fla: Fruity at first. Chocolate, vinous, cigar, soy (salt), warming alcohol, roasted tones, small syrupy sweetness, smokey aftertaste. Ov: Thick beeer. Intense flavor. Not too far away from Samuel Adams Triple Bock. But this one is more elegant and balanced.

Batch 72. Pours a dark brown, opaque, with a very large tan head that stays for quite a long time before collapsing. Aroma is highly of brown sugar, caramel, maple, and toffee. Just a little booze on the nose. Ooh, flavor is very smoky and leathery at first, then mellows out with chocolate, coffee, brown candy sweetness, and booze at the end. The leather and smoke stick around the palate for a while. It’s a wacky mix. Flavor is robust, and robust is good, but the smoke overpowers. I can’t get Liquid Smoke (the highly concentrated stuff you add to meat marinades) out of my mind. Palate is creamy, chewy, good. Could’ve been better if it had pulled off that balancing act between the smoke and the other flavors. Overall, very good.

Bottle courtesy of msubulldog25, batch #67. Dark brown almost black color with a khaki head. It has a smell like chocolates. It tastes like leather with some tobacco, then chocolate, some faint phenolic band-aid flavor which thank fully completely faded as teh beer warmed. This was good stuff and I was glad to get the chance to try it again as these are no longer distributed to CO. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 02-29-2008 06:11:31

mmm this beer is good. Dark brownish color. Smells of chocolate caramel and a little bit of hops. Taste is somewhat sweet w/ a little alcohol. A little bit of pepper and chocolate flavor very complex. Drinking this beer will make u want to kiss that ugly dog on the label sweeberz

12oz bottle, batch 55. Dark ruby-brown with a big beige head that leaves lasting foam. Caramel, alcohol, roasted malt, burnt sugars and dried dark fruit aromas. Roasted malt, lots of rich, alcoholic dried fruit and carmel flavors. Sweet, but with plenty of bitterness and drying alcohol to balance. Full-bodied with lots of carbonation and a peppery, drying finish. Nice stuff, with a great flavor complexity, but still seems like it could mellow a bit, despite being seven years old at this point. Definitely has aged like a champ.

Put age on this. Batch 65 Pours a dark brown, almost black with 2 fingers of creamy tan head. Chocholate, malts, caramel, butterscotch. Tastes similar to the smell, and very delish. Thanks again very nice beer.

Pours a dark brown, resembles a cola. Very little head at all, no lacing, and minimal carbonation. Smells of dark fruits and smoke. Taste is fantabulous. Extremely complex, dark chocolate, smokiness, dark fruits and rasisins, and roasty malt.Doesnt taste like an old ale to me. more of an impy stout or strong brown ale. Rather thick and syrupy, but doesnt get cloying. Truly and unique and complex ale.

Bottle. Batch 72. Pours a dark orange-ish with a thick long-lasting tan head. Lots of chocolate and sweet malt in the nose. The alcohol is very astringent up front later it mellows and some coffee, fig and roasted malt come thru. Flavor is strange but overall pretty good.