Hair of the Dog Fred

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

Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange with a thin white head. The aroma is mostly yeast, fruit, and a sweet malty aspect. The taste is a bitter hops, but not overly bitter. A sweet malty and fruity taste also. Some honey and maybe wheat also. Overall, a really good beer. Warm and smooth. Leaves you wanting more. Nice!

Bottled. Aroma has peach and orange/mandarine, some yeast, bit vinous. Muddy, orange coloured with a thin, off-white head. Taste is bitter, very fruity, bit sweet with yeast. Bitter, dry palate. Quite full bodied.

Poured a dark gold copper color with a thin off white head.Smells of bread, alcohol slight sweetness waft nicely. On your palate is a thick syrupy very smooth sensation. Flavor is all about complexity in a great tasty way. Lemon citrus hoppiness; toffee maltiness and rye.The finish is incredibly long and intriguing. Fantastic beer!

Very sweet aroma - with a distinct sweet yeasty smell. Pours a golden-to amber in a snifter. The flavor hits you in the face, flat out. There’s everything here: warming alcohol, hoppy bitterness, notes of sour apples and raisins. Ends on a nice IPA-ish bitterness from the hops. Very good!

(Batch #65) Brown-yellow colored, strongly hazy appearance. Little yellow head. Raisins dominate this strong aroma with chocolate, toffee, medium alcohol and some grains. Full bodied, safty palate. Flavor starts with sweetness and added sugar notes, fruits and raisins dominating, hops also with chocolate here. Aftertaste has strong sweetness with rich hops, plenty of everything here.

Bottle @ jbrus’s place. Strong vinous aroma with fresh cheese, banana and melon. Syrupy mouthfeel. Strong hopbitter flavor matched with tropical fruit and then returning in the almost oily hopbitter aftertaste. Rather alcoholic, but not annoying.

Feb. 2007 - Caramel color, big head, lacing. Aroma was caramel and hops. Flavor was strong caramel, big hops. Very similar to Bigfoot, but slightly less sweet, slightly less hoppy

2008-05-09, bottle batch 65, at Ølbaren, 8-5-9-5-17=44
The aroma also has old wood and a touch like cellar, it reminds me of some old house. Excellent mix of caramel (prevaling) and malt flavor, getting chewy if it loses some carbonation. Powerful final, well balanced between caramel, bitterness, alcohol. It’s a democracy, in which the caramel is the prime minister.

2008-02-15, bottle batch 69, 8-5-9-5-17=44
Parallel tasting with Fred from the Wood
Beautiful color, red-amber, almost still, with a oily surface and lonely bubbles. It has a strong malty aroma, mature at times, with sweet wood too; the aroma fades out, good but not impressive. It has a medium-strong body, with an excellent malt caramel and toffee flavor, powerful, rich. Strong bitterness, but leaving the scene to the malt, and just a bit of alcohol warmth, to complement it. A state of the art Barley Wine. It’s less complex than the draught that I had, and less impressive than the Fred From the Wood, but still excellent!

2007-01-01, draught at d.b.a., NYC, 9-5-9-5-18=46
Hazy amber color.
The aroma is malty, with caramel, but also vinous (winy), very light phenol and glue; raisins and vanilla.
Full mouthfeel, full malt flavor, caramel, light toffee, good hopping (European), light wood character, extremely well balanced.
In the final the hop is more aromatic and with caramel.
Excellent.