Hair of the Dog Fred

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

Pours a slightly hazy red/orange with a huge creamy head that is insanely resiliant. I could eat the head with a spoon. Smells of many different fruits, some spice, caramel and yeast. This is a huge beer. Many different flavors going on. Big fruit, dried and juicy, alcohol, big malt, rye. Finishes with some spice. Feels very full and creamy in the mouth. The ABV is apparant but not in a bad way. Warms you up nicely. This is a sipper through and through and absolutely incredible. Very complex and original and as it warms up more and more shows. This is a must try for any BA.

I actually tasted Fred a few times now but never rated it. Since I got a bottle from wetherel I decided to now do it. Pours cloudy golden/copper a really nice head that stay all along the tasting. Perhaps the high carbonation helps! Aroma of fruits, malts and hops (citrus and pine). I would never be fade up to smell this beer. Again, flavors are a great mix of malts (can recognized the rye in there), fruits and perceives some honey as well. Bitterness is right on! This is an awesome beer! Thanks John!

Pours a hazy amber. Full flavored. Dry with aromas of malts, hops and fruits. Sour hint of raisins. Dry finish. Tiny hint of funghi. Low carbonation.

Cloudy, burnt orange color with a fruity, hoppy, malty aroma wafting out of the 1 inch head. Full flavor from start to finish.

Batch #69. It’s a bit young. Pours a clear slightly pale copper with lasting white head and decent lacing. The aroma has a punch of hoppiness that is all over the place with spice, citrus and pine hop notes. The hoppiness is quickly dampened by a nice nose of caramel, dark fruity esters and alcohol phenols. The taste starts with a cherry bite aided by the carbonation followed by muted hop notes of pine and spice. Before the initial hop notes let go a creamy sweet caramel maltiness surfaces along with toffee, a rye twang, mild of dark fruity esters and a hint of biscuit. The hops re-take control of the flavor with a moderate bitter assault that continues to the finish. It ends with hop bitterness, sweet caramel maltiness and an alcohol tingling sensation. A year or two more would help.

Bottle at Zeno’s. Superb aroma. Golden grain and honey, Twizzlers licorice and oak. Mild vanilla, alcohol vapor. Absolutely divine. I want to suffocate by this. Copper amber clear body with foamy thick off-white lacing head. Heavy body, almost oily in its thickness, with medium carbonation. Dregs add cloudiness and a more chewy body. Taste is awesome. Sweet throughout, with plum and raisin, oak, vanilla, toffee, and chalky, light-bitter hops. Well-balanced with mild warming. Tasty sweet after. Great ale!

12oz bottle: 1st off HOLY HEAD! pour this very slow i have never seen a beer make a head so quick and so big without trying. aroma is a little sweet color is a hazy brown flavor has a bit of a kick to it. its got this sweet tangy flavor in there but hard to describe really like it and its not to sweet. this beer is a must try.

On Tap @Taphouse Bellevue... The last pint tapped out of the keg. A cloudy, burnt orange color with a fruity, hoppy, malty aroma wafting out of the 1 inch head. The flavor was full from start to finish, with the alcohol letting its presence be known all the way down. A very memorable brew!