Hair of the Dog Fred

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

Pours a very dark amber in color with a frothy ring of head. Smell is hops and a lot of them. Along with some evergreen coming through as well. Taste is floral, perfumy hops. Somewhat bitter. Very full and filling on the mouthfeel. You only get the slightest hint of alcohol in the taste. Almost has a acidic grapefruit taste to it.

7/7/07 On draught at the Rogue Issaquah brewhouse. Aroma is sweet caramel with no hops; clean. Appearance is solid clear copper with a moderate off-white head. Flavor is sweet malt forward, slightly sour, with hop citrus, some good earthiness, dried fruit and low bittering. Mouthfeel is medium/high bodied, syrupy, with a light carb feel. Overall, a bit stranger than I expected, delicious, with a very complicated sweetness.

9/2/07 From the bottle. Aroma is dark fruit forward with notes of caramel and raisins; portlike. Appearance is solid copper with a low off-white head. Flavor is syrupy malt forward, very rich, sweet, with a moderate background of earthy bittering. Mouthfeel is full bodied, chewy, warm, with a low carb texture. Overall, this is rich and delicious. I gave it the same score as the draught version, but this has a superior aroma.

Pours a orange creame colour filled with particulates topped by a spotty film. The aroma is a hoppy and vinous with grapefruit citrus, fruity yeast esters, caramel/butterscotch, and candied sugar. The flvour is similar to the scent with the addition of peach and that delicious rye malt. The quality of the hops used is evident in the taste. They are not overly bitter and not too sweet. The palate duration is long, but holds more on the sides of the tongue and the roof of the mouth, as this brew is very aromatic. Complex and hoppy.

Appearance: This isn’t a head, this is a pillar. A pillar of indecency.

I wait for the head to recede. And I wait. And . . . I wait. The carbonation action is fierce within the bowels of this deep gold cloud of infamy.

Aroma . . . I can’t quite make out what it is, but it seems candied and good good good. An IxPA thickness wafting about, but candied.

Flavor - Holy shit, it’s butterscotch. The most welcome flavor one can hope for in a beer. Heavier on the butterscotch by a factor of 10 than anything I’ve ever had before. No doubt it’s just the resin from countless hop varieties.

Palate - goes down like smooth light creamy liquid butterscotch. What else is there to say?

Oh, the treasure that Jack Torrance was missing out on when he settled for bourbon on the rocks. And Lloyd, being a 1920s bartender, how could he possibly have known better?

I’ll be damned, if this one isn’t an endeavor to put down, though. It WILL fill you.

Batch 68.

Poured a dark amber color with a small white head. Aroma was really malty, caramel, maybe a light smokiness and some lingering hoppiness. Flavor was really rich and nice. Maybe some dark fruits also.

Bottle: pours hazy orange with a thin head, aroma is sweet, spicy and malty, tastes spicy and a tad bitter, fizzy on the tongue with a little syrupy mouthfeel though not as much as some barley wines. This is probably the best barley wine I’ve had to date. I’m not a huge fan of the style but this is pretty damn good.

Excellent brew. Poured a fairly bland orange with a small ring of a head. Aroma was amazingly strong and sweet. Flavor very complex, sweet, yeasty, alcohol bites, very tasty.

Name: Fred #14
Date: 02/20/1999
Mode: Bottle Conditioned
Source: Beer by Mail

Appearance: hazy amber, whispy head
Aroma: funky malt aroma
Flavor: rich malt flavor, touch of bitterness, funky hotd character, slighly fruity
-------- /> Name: Fred #14
Date: 05/19/2006
Vintage: batch 14

Appearance: hazy amber with a red tint
Aroma: sweet hot malt aroma with a bit of fruit
Flavor: big sweet carmel malt flavor, hot alcohol in the finish that takes a while to fade, touch of wood,
-------- /> Name: Fred #14
Date: 06/11/2006
Source: tasting
Vintage: batch 56

picking up some earthy oaky character in the aroma

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4