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Hair of the Dog Fred

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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9473.96/5.03.95/5.010%95.5Snifter
Commercial Description:
Fred was created to honor beer writer and historian Fred Eckhardt. Fred the beer is a deep golden color. It is made with aromatic and rye malts and includes 10 different hop varieties in an effort to incorporate the whole world into this beer.
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 yespr (12135), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/515/20
Jul 27, 2008  
From bottle #17 at sk8vikings American blind tasting. Pours hazy to murky orange with yeast sediments and a fully diminished white head. Wineous ad slight woody hops aroma. Flavour is sweet caramelish and smooth. Lingering finish of yeast and caramel, hops ad smooth bitterness. Ends warming and slight spiced.


 jkwalking05 (1483), Arlington, Texas, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/515/20
Jul 26, 2008  
Deep golden color with a medium off-white head. Aroma is of hops, citrus, and fresh fruit, with a hint of caramel. Flavor is fruity, sweet, mildly hoppy with spiciness and a subtle rye flavor. Warming alcohol character.


 pineypower (1095), Pine Barrens, New Jersey, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/517/20
Jul 26, 2008  
Thanks to Santa for this one. Pours out a very nice slightly reddish golden color with a nice lacing head. Aroma is of some nice sweet fruits with slight bitterness. Taste is complex with sweet fruits, sugar, earth and some slight bitterness, the alcohol on this one doesn’t creep up until the finish. Very solid.


 Furseth (1328), Kungälv, Sweden
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/517/20
Jul 23, 2008  
Bottle: Hazy red colour,,flat head. Aroma of raisins,caramel,alcy,dust, and some viny nose in the end. Flavor is almost the same. Medium to big caramelly body.Medium fruity finish. This was a nice beer indeed!


 durhambeer (1210), Durham, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 22, 2008  
Bottle, thanks to emacgee. Label said "GOLDEN SPECIAL ALE," so I was surprised by the appearance and aroma, but pleasantly so. Deep amber, clear at first, but a bit cloudy after pouring in just a touch of the sediment. Medium off-white head. Smelled closer to a barley wine with notes of a good quad. A good bit of hops present, a bit of spiciness, and yeast and fruits and lots of malt and burnt sugar. Similar on the palate. Cotton candy fruity sweetness, hops, malt; alcohol pretty well hidden given the strength. I’m not a huge barley wine guy, but this was quite good. Can see how aging would work wonders.


 SudsMcDuff (1692), was CapeTown,SA-now Houston, Texas, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/104/516/20
Jul 21, 2008  
poured after a tough day on the trail .... wow, is a yummy beer, melts in your mouth and brain ... lots of sweetness ... alcohol is pretty well hidden ... good lacing ... can tell the candy sugar is in there ... is a very nice beer that is just damn enjoyable, would love to try the wood aged...


 railcat1 (581), Orlando, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 20, 2008  
I have been holding on to this for a while and felt it was time to try it poured a dark brown and with a thick sticky look and feel to it that had a nice tan head,the taste was a caramel malty and a strong alcohol kick to it i am not a big fan of barley wines but this was not bad at all.CHEERS!


 Cletus (5055), Connecticut, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/510/105/519/20
Jul 16, 2008  
Pours caramel brown with a sustained white head. Smells of bananas, vanilla, fresh strawberries, lots of spicy awesomeness. Tastes of dry malt, lots of caramel, some nice spiciness, citrussy hints, piney touches, touches of sweet malt on the finish. The Alcohol is not perceivable on this. This is a great beer!



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