Hair of the Dog Cherry Adam from the Wood

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

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.
[ Trade by VikingHammer ]. Clear dark brown color with a small small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, dark berry, moderate to light heavy wood, sweet cherry notes, soy sauce notes, bourbon notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, moderate acidic and moderate to heavy bitter with a average to long duration, tartness - vinegar. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090619]

Damn, a lost rating! Shared with Oakes and Beershine and more in early Feb I believe. Great damn beer. Reddish brown pour with a nice head. Aroma is all over the place. I mean wow. Cherries, oak, bourbon, madera wine, booze, vanilla, honey and more! Flavor is amazing. Layered and complex. Full of booze, vanilla, cherry, oak, and what seems like a light touch of smoke. Fun beer, actually an amazing beer.

Bottle courtesy of markwise. Pours a muddy dark brown to black with reddish highlights and a thin tan head. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of bourbon, vanilla, wood, smoke, cherry, earth, chocolate, brown sugar, hints of molasses and caramel. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of chocolate, brown sugar, cherry, vanilla, wood, molasses, and hints of caramel and toffee. Generally medium body with a boozy malty finish.

bottle from hannont, thanks Todd. shared with illini08 while he was home over the 4th of July. I’ve always enjoyed HotD brews and this was no exception. for me, the bourbon was just right and while I got a hint of the tart cherries, I expected a bit more from the fruit. solid brew and very enjoyable. I have one bottle remaining and will let it age for a couple of years.

Where to start with this one. Possibly one of the most layered and complex beers I’ve come across. Aroma is of oak, some cherry, bourbon, more oak and faint faint hints of the original adam underneath. Flavor is pretty oaky and booxy. The palate turned me off a bit as it was just a little too over the top boozy for me. But that’s just me. Really cool beer, just not my favorite. Thanks for the hookup Colin!

Bottle. My initial thought was that you can’t improve upon Adam. I think that thought was validated by this beer. It has the depth and complexity to match anything in the style, but it doesn’t match the subtle depth of the original brew. Nose is bourbon/oak and cherries, caramel, chocolate, mild leather. Deep amber-brown pour. Flavor is again dominated by oak and tart cherry, which is phenomenal but overwhelms the immense complexity of Adam. The oak seems to imply more alcohol than is present. Overall this is a wonderful beer but the overshadowing of its base detracts from the impression.

Bottle@Fonefan. Deep ambery brown colour, tiny brigeish brown head. Aroma is lots of wood, some berries as well as mild raisins. Flavour is leather, wood, some sour wooden notes as well as alcohol. Aftertaste is sour wood and also some slight cherries. Quite wellbalanced and nice big brew. Maybe a bit too big on the "barrelwood".

12oz bottle from WeeHeavySD who flew up to portland for these. I shared the bottle with Ryan form Lost Abey, who broke out a Cuvee for the ocaision. The beer poured a dark red-brown with a small tan head. the aroma had lots of cherry with wood and the funkiness of adam showing through. The flavor had lots of sherry and bourbon and the cherry flavor was much dimished from the flavor, still lots of interesting notes. This fresh CdT had much stronger cherry flavor but the Cherry Adam was much more complex.