Hair of the Dog Rose Cassis

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

12oz bottle shared at Columbus Tasting 7 - Pours cloudy amber with a short offwhite head. Aromas of oak, black currant, and spice. Flavor is oak, black currant, and spice. Medium body with average carbonation.

Murky, muddy tan pink color with a taupe/pink head. Looks somewhat like an imitation chocolate milk drink that even has come small curds. This one has even set for a couple months, but it looks like it was shaken and abused. Currants dominate the aromas. Some hints of scones and rust. Quite chemical in aroma. Currant and grape skin tannins abound. Sour apple, dark cherries, apricot pits and lime zest wander about. A light tartness and mild astringency meander about as well. Why do I think many a brew looked like this a few hundred years ago. A tough brew to slog through in a odd way. Rough to look at, some interesting, yet odd flavors, still a brew that makes one reflect back to a time when life wasn’t filtered, pasteurized and hermetically sealed. Thanks Larry Pitonka for this rough gem.

C-Bus 7 Bottle shared by black95tt: Pours a hazy purplish brown color with a tan head. Aroma, fruity, some floral notes, caramel, some slight tartness. Flavor, fruits, caramel, a dryer floral finish, yeasty. Very nice.

2005 Bottle; Pours an amazing cloudy pink grapefruit color with a thin white head. Aroma of tart acidic fruit. Flavor is of incredible fruit juice and cranberry flavor. Tart sweet and sour with a touch of hops. Alcohol is completely unnoticeable and this beer tastes more like a yeasty carbonated fruiit juice than beer, and i mean that in a good way. I quite enjoyed it.

Violet/Light Red color with Pink Cream Head. Malty Thick...Almost Pungently Tart..Black Currant Aroma. Some Warming Works its Way Out Right Away...Then a Creamy Mouthfeel...Dry Currant Notes...Nice Warming Ending. An Interesting Fruit Beer.

Milky pink/purple pour with medium/small off white head. Fruity aroma, berries, black currants. Yeast also present. Sour aroma. Sour fruit to start, some yeastly flavors also. Bitterness present too. Not very palatable.

Pours a murky purplish pinkish brown color, topped by a lively head of um ... pink suds. The head is short lived, but leaves decent lacing. Tart fruit in the aroma, more like tart cherry than currant. Some yeast in there as well. Starts out sweet and tart - fruity and oakey and complex and then wham it switches rapidly to a dry almost astringent finish. More like pomegranate mixed with mushy over ripe black cherry at this point. A little too tangy in the end to be enjoyed a whole lot, but a leathery tobacco flavor in there is interesting. Medium to full body, well carbonated. But the beer seems muddled and a bit too astringent.

12 0z bottle, brewed 7/12/05 - Extremely murky brown/purple color with almost non-extant head. Aroma is sweet, lots of currants, honey, hint of dates and figs. Flavor is sweet, fruity, with currants, strawberry, honey, dates, with a sweet but not quite cloying finish. Interesting to try, but I’m not really crazy about it.