Hair of the Dog Adam

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

12oz bottle from mfielden. Pours a deep dark brown to black color with thick and pillowy tan head with excellent retention and lacing. Aroma is roasted malt, dark ripe fruit, caramel, honey, toasted bread, yeast, brown sugar and slight nutty and smoke notes. Flavor is roasted and smokey with notes of roasted malt, dark chocolate, dark ripe fruit, floral hops, cocoa, hints of molasses and cinnamon. Generally medium to full body with lively carbonation and a smokey roasted malt finish.

My Hair of the Dog Adam is a potential dud. The cap pops, and the bottle exhales a tired, shallow sigh. The carbonation meekly files out of its high pressure prison, tiredly limping towards the edges of the glass, moping as it skates along the murky, oak body. The aroma is a little more vibrant, dripping with chocolate, peat, coffee, and a touch of raspberry, auguring a rich and dessert-like brew. I gird myself for an oily, decadent flavor, and get it in spades. It’s strong, even burly, slowly trudging forth with the peat and coffee flavors, and then adding a layer of sweet, dark chocolate and raspberry, just like the aroma. I also catch a much needed dollop of honey sweetness, which helps to offset a somewhat overpowering bitterness. The chocolate flavors are also, at times, overbearing, suggesting malts that may have been excessively kilned. This is definitely a flavorful, pungent beer, but it’s a bit too strong and forward for my palate.

Batch 55. Pours a beautiful reddish mahogany with nice frothy head. Aroma is yeasty and earthy. Malty flavor upfront of dark fruit, toasted brown sugar, pecan, cocoa nib, fig, and raisin. A tinge of smoke, and even a little cumin in the finish. Goes down smooth with nice bursting co2 level and nice hops bitterness in the finish. A great balance of malt, hops, and alcohol. This is a great brew (especially on my B-day)

batch 72. Crushed with CaryTheDude and JakeBra. Enjoyed this one a lot. Dark brown pour. Aroma is smokey and meaty. Some coffee, some chocolate. Flavor is bacony, smokey, chocolatey, coffee. Awesome. Great brew.

12 oz bottle - batch 72. Dark brown in color to the point of almost being black. I believe this is the first old ale I’ve ever had (or at least a real one), and definitely have enjoyed it. Strong abv, but definitely well hidden and balanced. Full mouth with many flavors.

Bottle courtesy of Mr. Jim Schembre...thanks a bunch. Finally getting around to entering this rating in. Pour is a very dark brown with a thin, wispy tan head. Nose has huge notes of roasted malts, sweet caramel, dark fruits and a bit of an earthy, herbally tone, slightly smoky but not in the over-the-top sense. Slick, oily body...flavors are sweet malts, toffee, chocolate and some vanilla bean. Very nice brew indeed.

Batch 70. Pours out dark brown with a tall and thick tan head. Aroma is deep smelling of wood, burnt sugars, tar, and plums. The taste, however, was much less sugary than expected. Instead I had a full roasted flavor. Roasted nuts, dark chocolate, and applewood bacon all come out in the taste. This is one complex mofo of a beer to be sure. As the beer warmed it only got more delicious. I just had the last sip right now and I am dissapointed, one last taste of chocolate and an earthy taste that isn’t matched anywhere. Excellent.

My first hair of the dog a great big thanks to giascar 12 oz. bottle pour was a dark brown with a reddish hue that you cant see any lite through the glass with a thick tan rich dense head of an inch aromas of mallts sugars leather and figs tasteis of sweet sugar caramel malts, and black olives with friut under tones this is one brewer that diffently lives up to the hype I can not wait to sample more of thier brews and will be searching out trades in the near future can anybody say dark lord day 2009 oh by the way happy new years