Hair of the Dog Adam

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

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with zero head or carbonation. Nose is dark sweet fruits, molasses and mild roasted coffee beans. Taste is much like the aroma with some smoky, earthiness added. Full, creamy mouth feel. Very good and complex.

Batch 71: Very dark brown with a beige head that had very good retention and lacing. Smell of caramel, dark fruit, earthy hops, smoke, and also some medicinal notes. Taste is smokey, caramel, and very medicinal. There also seems to be some sweet cherries in the taste, but most of it is medicinal. Medium carbonation and light to medium body. I’d like to try this again from a different batch to get a better idea of the beer.

Bottle, batch 69. This beer had an extremely intense head. It took me a few minutes to fully pour this beer. It was a dark raisin, plum color with a billowing light brown frothy head. Not sure what was going on here, but have never seen a head like that. The aroma was dark fruit, chocolate, and sweet malt. Flavor is rich and complex with sweet maltiness and a mild to moderate bitter finish. Definitely full bodied. A rich, robust brew that everyone should experience. Totally worth revisiting, I’m looking for another one right now.

Batch 70. This one poured a dark brown almost cola color with absolutely no head at all. You can tell this one is going to be big and rich. The aroma shows notes of dark chocolate, dark fruit, toasted caramel, smoke, and some hops. The flavor shows equal depth with dark chocolate, caramel, smoke, and chocolate covered fruit. Some earthy bitter hops come through a bit on the backend and try to add balance, but are overwhelmed by the massive malts in this one. Medium bodied that is smooth and creamy, but definitely a big beer that is heavy to drink. This is different and not one I could drink all the time, but the depth and complexity of this is what sets it apart.

Bottle...and delicious! Wow. Pours a dark reddish brown and zero head. Aroma is toffee, caramel, dried fruit. Flavor is sweet and rich. Molasses and malts are there and a slight hit of hops hits you, but not much. Great beer and my first Hair of the Dog beer.

Deep moss, oak, leather, caramel hops and smoke. Very striking and biased toward the darker end of things. Very unique.

12oz bottle, batch 66. I finally figured out what I love, love, love about this beer. It’s like the perfect cross between a sublimely rich old ale and a black IPA. Huge aroma of molasses, malts, and tobacco wafting off a very thick opaque head. Substantial dark body is deceptively drinkable owing to a strong hop presence, biting and dry towards the finish. So complex, I need more.

12oz bottle from BOLTZ7555, thanks big time Jason! you the man! Aroma has notes of smoke, leather, currant, latakia pipe tobacco, musty dried fruit. Very deep amber black with an average sized frothy khaki head that lasted and left some lace. Flavor of smoke, leather, currant and finishes quite bitter. Palate is lively and full bodied with a lingering finish. A good brew that’s rustic and earthy. Desert beer my ass though, nothing about this brew suggests dessert, more like warming oneself by an outdoor fire.