Hair of the Dog Adam

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

Only complaint is that the head was enormous...way too much natural carbonation on this one. Other than that this is an amazing beer. Aroma is nothing short of amazing. Fruity, vanilla, roasted malts. Nice. Taste falls a bit short of what the aroma leads you on to, and the palate is a bit too acidic, but I’m not complaining. Great stuff

Bottle. Dark brown with a huge light brown and long lasting head. This beer has an amazingly complex aroma. Chocolate, vanilla, caramel, dark fruits, and some roasted malts. Flavour of malt, chocolate, licorice, dark fruit and spices all ended with a good amount of bitter hops just to balance it all out. This beer is nearly flawless.

Pours dark brown with an average head. Aroma of sweet caramel, fruit, malt, and spice. Taste is of roasted malt, light chocolate, spice, and hops. Finish has some bitterness and alcohol. Very nice. Mouth was full and mildy carbonated.

Wowzers! This guy just exploded out of the bottle with a 3+ finger off white head that threatened to overflow the snifter. The head literally stayed nearly one finger thick the entirety of the session and left some serious lacing. Pours black with only the slightest hint of deep mahogany tints around the edges. Beautiful if not slightly out of control. Big whiffs of dark sweet malts with caramel, toffee and chocolate scents. Dark fruits in there as well, figs, plums and raisins maybe. Slight smoky smell throughout. Massive and complex with a whole lot going on. First taste of dark malts, molasses, chocolate and dark fruits. Caramel and toffee flavors are also evident but all the sweetness is balanced by the strong hop profile, mainly piney, resinous hops. There is also the smoky backbone that weaves itself in and out of the taste. Borders on taste bud overload. Like the appearance...tasty if not slightly out of control. Thick, creamy mouthfeel coats the mouth but lingers with a slight hop bitterness and the stinging of the alcohol. Wow, I’m not sure I could have more than a couple of these in a week or so. Massive beer all the way around and the sensory assault just slightly takes away from the drinkability. Despite that, I will actively seek out other HoD brews after this baptism by fire.

Poured dark with little to no head. A nice malty aroma with some hints of berry and vanilla. Taste is rich and heavenly with malt, chocolate and dark berry with some hints of smokiness. Great body.

Pours a dark brown with a huge frothy beige head. Aroma is lightly sweet roasted malt, dark fruits and caramel. Flavor starts with chocolate then plum, whisky, hops and doughy yeast. Medium bodied, creamy texture. Long sweet/dry alcoholic finish.

A- This is how a beer should look. Murky reddish black with a tan 2 finger head which stays for a while and leaves a crapload of lacing as it goes down. S- Smell is strangely absent, a bit of roasted malt, can’t detect much else. T- Starts off deep and malty, the roasted malts take front stage but behind them is definitely a complex malt bill. This leads into a hoppiness that seems a little too strong, probably with time this one will lose most of the hops and really shine with the malts, I suspect it is a little young. Slight alcohol notes at the end. The main beef I have with this one is it just doesn’t taste like an old ale which was what I wanted. Not bad, just not my cup of tea. M- Medium viscosity, lots of carbonation. I assume the carbonation will fade with time. D- This one is a nice beer to sip on. I think I would give it at least a year or two in the future. Seems like an old ale and a stout mixed to me but what do I know.

Brown to black in color with a huge foamy head. Smells of smoke, oak, hops, and leather. Medium body. Sticky at the back of the mouth. Taste is woody, malts, leather, and roastiness.