Hair of the Dog Blue Dot Imperial IPA

Brewed by Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Portland, Oregon USA

22oz Bottle: Pours a hazy medium gold with a small white head. The aroma is intense. It’s the kind of smell I’m used to getting when I open up a hop bag for home brewing. The taste didn’t match the aroma at all. Much more subdued and balanced. Uncharacteristic of a DIPA. The hops are piney but I don’t get the listed IBUs. The mouth feel is medium heavy but hard to describe. It feels lighter but lingers. The finish is very nice with some lingering citrus and pine. A nice IPA that grows on you, but I don’t think I would call this a double.

Sampled at Hellbillys Hellraiser II. Pours a hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma of hops, sticky pine, malt and bread. Flavors of Hops, Pine, Citrus, al come together with bitterness and sweetness to form a quite nice IIPA.

Hazy amber with a thin head. Nice but fairly mild piney hop aroma with some sweet dark bread malts. Medium body and smooth with light carbonation. Big hop juice flavors are grapefruit and pine sap bittersweet, not much malt flavor here. Has a lingering bitter finish. Have to try a fresh bottle this fall.

Pours a bright hazy golden orange with very little head. Retention and lacing are minimal. Smell of citrus explodes out of the bottle when the cap is popped. Orange, lemon, and grapefruit all over the place with a light, sweet malt aroma as well, but it’s really a citrus hop sensory assault. Taste is of citrus hops as well, but with less aggression than the aroma. Mainly grapefruit in the taste this time with a little more bready malt sweetness than the smell as well. I finally got a little pine bitterness in the finish, but this one was on the sweeter side of DIPAs. Mouthfeel is light to medium with strong carbonation. Very smooth and sweet and doesn’t have the over-the-top bitterness that I often get in West Coast DIPAs. This one is uber drinkable, especially as the weather warms up. It’s not nearly as intense as many DIPAs but that smooth taste makes it all the more drinkable.

Thanks to Agent_Steve for this! Orange pour slightly hazy (similar to a hefeweizen) with white head and spotty lacing. Grapefruit and rye aroma, with a very similar taste. Peppery finish. A full bodied and very interesting beer

Brewed in Portland, Oregon. Brewed with organic pilsner malt, rye malt and intense hop varieties and has an ABV of 7%. This is a very interesting IPA. The aroma tips off with sweet spicy malt and citrus notes followed by crazy intense herbal grassy fragrances. Pours a beautiful straw body that has a cloudy haze too it that’s reminiscent of a heffeweizen. Slowly, it then manifests a frothy beige head. Fantastic taste! Begins with a malty zip that is soon overwhelmed by a barrage of bitter hoppy arsenal. There is a definite hop domination, but somehow it still finishes smooth without too much of a lingering bitterness. This full bodied beer has a thick mouthfeel that is bold all the way down. Overall, it rocks ass. Love the rich complexity and kickin hops.

Thanks BottleTrek! Excited... a double IPA with malted Rye and at only %7 it must be very drinkable... so lets see: The liquid inside looks very murky as light wont shine thru it. Pop the cap and immediately from a foot away I get a whiff of pineapple. Pours murky faint orange golden with no real head... looks like pineapple juice. Super sweet pineapple aroma! First taste is not nearly as sweet as the aroma... much more low key bitterness, smooth and slightly waxy. Soft peach flavor with lots of citrus/grapefruit in the finish. 100 IBU’s are nowhere to be found in this, just kidding they get you in the aftertaste. The rye seems to be missing though. Palate is smooth with hardly any carbonation. Nice weight to the body, not sticky or too light. Very juicy.

From LIC, Aarhus, DK. Bottled. 040508. Grapefruit bitterness and aroma. Alcohol present but swamped by a malt sweet body