Hair of the Dog Blue Dot Double IPA

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

Tap @ Higgins, Portland. Clear golden color, beautiful head. Aroma of grapefruit and pine. Very bitter and quite sharp taste. Good stuff.

Draft. Hazy amber beer with a nice off-white head. Nig citrus/tropical fruit aroma thats almost Pliny-like. Sweet malt flavor with lots of fruity hops - citrus, apricot, tropical. Nice lingering hop finish. Full bodied. Very good.

Hazy peach-colored liquid is topped by a fleeting, white head. The aroma whaps you in the sinuses with a huge pineapple and grapefruit hoppiness. Beautiful aroma. The flavor is a bit of a letdown. Not because it’s bad, but because it just ain’t a strong as I expected after that aroma. The flavor is a mild maltiness with a very light bitterness.

Date: 05/01/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

opaque orange, scant head, drippy lace, supper sweet pine and grapefruit aroma, creamy body that thins upon warming, great hop flavor with tempered hop bitterness that comes out upon warming,
-------- /> Date: 05/20/2006
Source: tasting

liquid hops,
-------- /> Date: 06/09/2007
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2007
Score: 3.9 to 4.0
Words: Noog 3D

huge citrus hop aroma with malty sweetness like sugar coated grapefruit, tons of sweet grapefruit flavor, light lingering bitterness, this is the way a grapefruit beer should be

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***+/4

On tap at Brouwer’s Cafe Hopfest 2005. Cloudy, golden color, with a nice head and leaves nice lacing down the glass. Very creamy mouthfeel, soft and not overpowering at all (which I’d expected). I can’t believe it’s 100 IBU’s--didn’t taste anywhere near that bitter. To me, the hops seemed very well disguised and the beer seems very well balanced. A very drinkable, pleasant beer.

Bomber: Large offwhite head, retention is good with lacing that starts out thick and coating but ends up spotty and scattered. Pale gold appearence is moderately hazy. Spicey hop nose with some funky notes, lightly earthy and fruity. Body is medium, palate is neat with a soft carbonation that gets a bit aggressive followed by a tart creaminess. Flavors of citrus and pineapple, rye spiceyness, earthy notes, grapefruit and lightly doughy. Finish is dry, fruity, good hop bite. Props to EDA for this very cool brew. Thanks Mike!

Hazy amber coloured body with a thin off-white head. Aroma of strong hops, malt and alcohol. Very full bodied - chewy mouthful; Strong as hell, with alcohol coming through most of all. Very strong hops in the taste with an overly bittered hop flavour and a good malt backbone. Aftertaste bittered from the hops of course. Overall, good throughout and definitely nice to try! I sampled this beer on draught at Henry’s 12th St Tavern in Portland, Oregon on 09-September-2006.

22 oz bomber. Hazy golden beer ( almost looks like a trad. German hefe), large eggshell white head. Strong aromas of pine and spicey hop, some hints of valencia orange for some reason. Sweet and malty for a second then a torrent of piney/citric hopping cleanses, no scours almost the tongue, then it sort of balances out again in the end. Very drinkable and feels very nice and light on the palate, which i think is an advantage in a very hoppy beer. Nice beer but not quite a Double IPA, but more than just a plain old IPA. I think this fits rather neatly in the middle of the two categories.