Hair of the Dog Rose

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

Bottle. Coppar colour with an off-white head. Aroma is alcohol, yeast, caramel, peppar. Flavour is sweet, alcohol, yeast, caramel, flower, pepper. Strange beer, but still a nice one.

Bottle. It pours a clear, copper body with a small, off-white head. Sweetish, flowery nose with caramel and nuts, notes of roasted malt and a touch of alcohol. Sweet and sugary in the mouth, with caramel, some alcohol and pepper and Brazilian pepper. Medium to full body, rather sweetish and a bit biting mouthfeel. Lasting sweet and peppery finish. The flavor grows better and better as you drink it, and it’s one of the strangest tripels I’ve had. But nice! (080509)

Cant really see why this beer is scaled as a tripel besides what the label says. From the bottle pours a hazy reddish beer with a medium white head. Very earthy and dusty nose from the beets and a spicy crisp from the rose pepper with some malt and hops. Flavour is spicy but the beets is from sure there too. Its pretty weird but in some way I like it very much.

The color was hazy brown/orange. The head was creamy, off-white, and thin. The aroma was grassy, some hops, and sweet. The flavor was grass, dirt, hops, and sweet. The palate was average. The finish was tart.

Thanks to bmartin for this. Batch 41 bottle. I’ll give it a thumbs up for an interesting appearance. Ruddy red, murky. One finger frothy earthy brown head. The nose is a bit sweet, a little alcohol, earthy, weird, I guess its the beets (?). The flavor is weird, alcohol is unpleasant, earthy, a bit sweet and medicinal, not a huge fan. The mouthfeel is average and it finishes warm and spicy.

12 oz bottle (batch 41) pours deep copperish orange with a rose hue. It has an off white head. I’m getting an impressive complex aroma with notes of sugar coated raspberries and strawberries along with an earthy – grainy mixture that almost smells of wood. I get more notes of such things as assorted spices, yeast and just other notes I can’t discern. The taste has a load of berry fruitiness and spice. I get sweet raspberry and strawberry along with bay leaves and hibiscus flowers (as noted on the label). There’s a layer of malt sweetness running with the myriad of other notes as well as mild berry fruit tartness. Nice enjoyable mix of flavors.

[Bottle--Batch 30, thanks LawStudent09!] Pours hazy orangish brown with a small white head. Aroma is big on pepper and something vegetal, which after reading the bottle was discovered to be beets. The taste is the same and really not very pleasant. Medium mouthfeel with a long finish. Hmm, vegetal and peppery...a unique beer for sure, but really quite foul.

Bottle batch #33 poured a clear golden amber with a minimal lingering light amber ring of foam. Aromas of carmel, apple cider, pears, light toffee and a hint of spice. Palate was light to medium bodied and crisp. Flavors ofcarmel, light pear, light apple and a hint of spice with a crisp bittersweet finish.
Aged way better than I expected!