Hair of the Dog Doggie Claws (2003-)

Brewed by Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Portland, Oregon USA

Botella. Muddy yeasty coffee with milk looking brew. Lovely intense hoppy fruity aroma. Very good mouthfeel. Sweet very hoppu soft nicely bitter alco pleasant flavour. Sweet yeasty nice hoppy mild alco finish.

thanks jeppe!. ar: hoppy, after a while, goes dark fruity. appearance: sewer water, moud. flavor: hoppy, mouldy, sweet. has been better, signs of too much aging. 15 overall high, flavor taken down bc the honey gives me a sharp bitter flavor i don’t like. this beer is better than 3.1

Vintage 2004. Pours a hazy dark amber with an off white head and a few floaties. Smells of caramel. Quite sweet with lots of toffee aromas. Also aromas of raisins and prunes. Also a faint touch of citric hopsaromas. Full body. Medium carbonation. Slightly sticky mouthfeel. Some residual sugars. Short toffee-and-raisin finish. Awesome. BIG thanks to whoever traded me this one; sorry for forgetting who you are.

Bottle thanks to BuckeyeBoy. Poured dark amber with big tan head. Aroma was floral, hoppy, citrus, and sweet. Taste was very smooth and creamy, with floral and citrus hops. Finished very nice and enjoyed very much. A nice barley wine.

I had a 2007. This dark amber pour has notes of hops, citrus, and grain. Sweet, warming flavor. It is a very distinct barley flavor. You can definitely taste the northwest in this beer if that makes any sense.

Sampled in a single blind tasting side by side. I had 2 properly stored vintages, 04 and 05. The total score is an average of the two scores. Beer #1 (2005) - Aroma is sweet, fruity, vinous, and very aromatic. There is a lightly ethanolic note to this. This is wonderfully aromatic and very pleasant. There are some chocolate-milk like notes in this. Smells soooo good. Very muddy, murkey sludge-like brown-amber body with a nice off-yellow head. Wow...this is like cigar tobacco. A bit smoky, too. This is actually very similar to the cigar I had last night, as a matter of fact. Some dry, roasty, lightly astringent notes are present in the middle with plenty of roastiness in the finish. This is like a liquid cigar. 9/3/7/4/15/3.8 ..... Beer #2 (2004) - Sweet, caramel, vinous, fruity aroma with a little chocolate, too. Pretty quaffable, but not as good as the first beer. Mildly hazy garnet body with a nice, frothy light tan head and nice lacing. A very attractive brew. This brew also has a bit of cigar tobacco flavor with some peaty malts and chewy, caramel flavors in the middle. Ethanol is not detectable. Very mellow brew with some lightly bitter hops in the finish. I also get some chocolate flavors late. Really good brew. 7/5/9/5/17/4.3

2007 bottle. Watching southpark and waiting for a pretty girl to come over to my apt. Tasted Dales Pale ale before this and it was Very good. Im really excited about this brew. Hazy golden pour, dissipating fizzy white head. Dark sticky malt aromas, sweet and hoppy. a little bit of burnt sugar and or caramel. Intense Malt and tobacco. Almost like a sweet bourbon, the mouthfeel is relatively creamy. Alcohol is present in the mouht but mostly comes out in the finish as a woody alcohol finish. Very enjoyable, a great sipper.

Bottle. Huh....this is one unique brew from start to finish. Garnet colored with just a hint of a soapy head, nearly flat. Massive nose of oiled leather, scotch, rich fruits, and a few notes of red wine. Really sweet flavors of syrup, honey, tobacco, and a lovely warming sweet bourbon filling the mouth at the end. It’s really impressive how there is zero alcohol burn or heat left in the mouth with a beer this strong and this flat. Typically it takes carbonation to hide this burn, but not here. Weird, unique, almost more like a super sweet bourbon than a beer, but really enjoyable.