Hair of the Dog Rose Cassis

Formerly brewed at Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Portland, Oregon USA

Bottle, 2005, received from ditmier. Pours cloudy amber with a small, fizzy, white head, mostly diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (hay, straw), light hop (grass), average yeast (earth) with notes of currant, cinnamon, and candy. Medium bodied, gritty texture, average carbonation, and a sour finish. Long duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and sourness.

Bottle. Pours a hazy reddish brown with an off-white ring of foam. Caramel, berry and musky aroma. Taste of dust, and fruit. Light body and carbonation. Dry woody finish.

Bottle. Pours a hazy brown/reddish color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity yeasty berry black currant aroma. Fruity black currant flavor with some yeasty hints. Also slightly bitter in flavor. Has a dry fruity berry black currant finish with some alcoholic hints.

12oz bottle via trade. Pours (as the tokyogoat said during our tasting) T.J. swamp water brown with a lighter colored head that had a slight purple tint. Tons of blueberry and Currants in the nose with a touch of booze. Tastes like you put a blueberry pie in the blender and drank it, yummy.

Pours a sewer water brown, hazy, milky, with a small white head. Nose is primarily tart apple. Taste is tart, nice current flavors, green apple with big red wine flavors ont he back ends. Not sweet, slightly dry and tangy.

12oz from 2005. Glad I got to try this . Bottle is about 3.5 years old to the day. I have to say this has the most unique appearance of any beer I’ve ever had, period. Pours a thick, milky rose color, completely cloudy. I thought it was mixed with sediment until the real sediment starting coming out, big, grainy purple things. Has the same sediment an old vintage port would have. In the glass it looks like Yoohoo or chocolate milk. No head and just really milky and strange looking. Crazy.

Aroma is subdued but I get some HOTD house character in there, some raspberries are also apparent underneath. A cream-like component is also present. Some vanilla as well. The berry component is actually fairly appealing. Flavor is strange, mead-like. Raspberries come out in the flavor along with a sharp, wine-like acidity that’s difficult to describe. Alcohol is still detectable which is a flaw in a beer with this ABV and age. Some fruity tartness is also present. This is very difficult to rate. It’s very interesting, not bad at all but I really can’t say I am enjoying it that much. I’m at a loss.

Bottle at DLD 09 ... Hazy pink brown ... sweet fruits ... definite rose petel in nose ... very sweet ... little tart sourness ... cherry fruit (ok must be blackcurrant) in background ... very nice.

2005 edition thanks to Eric. Pours a...what the hell is this? A red-strawberry color like a thick milkshake. A bubbly pink-white head. The aroma is interesting; strawberry, cassis, sweet berries and some odd alcohol. The flavor is interesting as well; tart cassis, sourness, wood, strawberry milkshake, super weird. A huge amount of pink particulates, soupy. Not bad, very unique.