Hair of the Dog Rose

Formerly brewed at Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Portland, Oregon USA

Very nice pour, huge head that stuck around for about half of the time I drank it. Very yeasty, had a nice alcohol warm to it and some sweetness to it too. Yeast floated around in the glass and settled at the bottom, that was gross, had to swish it around quite a few times.

dark caramel color,,alcoholy Taste is candy sugar, floral and fruity. not bad,,,not great surprised at the higher rating

12 oz bottle, snifter, batch 34. Huge, creamy, off-white, lasting head leaves fair lacing and sits on a cloudy orange-red body. Bread, cookie, caramel, toffee, candi sugar malt (H); flowers, orange hops (L); doughy yeast (L); clove, pear, peach, honey, vanilla aromas. Moderately sweet, lightly acidic flavor becomes a heavily sweet, moderately acidic, moderately bitter finish. Mediu-full body, creamy texture, slightly alcoholic, average carbonation. The bottom line is: the flavor loses some of the aroma’s subtlety to a strong candi sugar taste.

Bottle. Yeasty Belgian style, really authentic, almost identical to something like Westmalle Tripel. Appley and yeasty, with a very warming finish, a fair bit of alcohol and citric bitterness in the finish, but its nicely balanced. Nice and full bodied. 3.8 Next bottle@Spiesys. This was a lot different to what i remember, this was super cloudy, wheaty and less yeasty and Belgian in flavour from my first sample. 3.0 Average: 3.4

Very nice appearance, with good head and lacing. Hazy golden color, really looks beautiful in a tulip glass. Taste is Belgiany, light and fruity. Hops are present toward the end. Overall another excellent brew from Hair of the Dog.

Pours a hazy golden yellow in color. Lots of puffy white head. Smell is of fruit and citrus. Taste is a little yeasty and fruity. I must be getting a bad couple batches of these. The whole bottle pours head. But still a good brew. Will rerate when I purchase another.

On tap at the Hair of the Dog brewery. Amazingly fresh off tap, much better than the bottled version as i remember it. Orange in color with a nice white head. Nice spices in the aroma with a nice sweet side to it almost like caramel. Taste was fairly sweet with a nice bitterness towards the end. Romor is, is that this recipe is going to change soon, so be on the lookout for another amazing brew.

12 oz Bottle, Batch #20 (Golden Rose Version); sampled June 2004: Bronzed honey. Almost totally still with large brown bubbles that quickly move to the edges of the glass and cling together in a ring. Sticky caramel sugar aroma. Still a few hop flower remnants as well. Woodiness and Earthy components sooth and calm initially. Completely flat palate. Wonderful chewy caramel infused hop cones. After several years the flavours are left with a totally dulled hop bitterness and a combination of fruit (plums & cherries), fresh honey suckles, brown sugar, and strawberries. This one has turned into a darkened, old ale-esk beer and really works (except for the flat palate). I was a bit worried about this one as many people have said it doesn’t age well, but I would put an asterisk next to that. The palate/body/carbonation don’t hold up with age, but the flavours mesh together into a truly special and unique brew; put one aside and wait if you can. 9/3/8/2/17
12 oz Bottle, Batch #39; sampled July 2005: golden garnet with a slight haze below an amazingly retentive tightly bubbled ivory foam. Honeyed cloves stars are in abundance throughout the aroma along with a light hoppy bitterness, fresh biscuits, hints of pepper and all spice. Delicate palate (I can see how my first sample totally died…) that doesn’t have the body to deliver the full carbonation…herbal flavours stick to the tongue and gums and a light sweetness clings to the sides of the mouth long after the liquid slides away. Though the palate gets destroyed in the age process, I still think that I like this one better after some time in the cellar…8/4/7/3/15