Hair of the Dog Rose

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

Bottle from Liquid Solutions. Pours a very murky amber color with a massive white head that never totally goes away. Aroma is yeast, apple, sweet malt, and candi sugar. Flavor is lots of Belgian yeast, candi sugar, sweet malt, sour apple and other light fruits, floral notes, sherry-like oxidation, and spices. Gets better as it goes on and is very complex. Body is medium with average carbonation and a long, spicy finish. This has aged very well and is good overall, but is still not one of my favorite HotD beers.

Magnum, batch 39. Pours cloudy gold with white ring of foam. Light body and carbonation. Fruit-coated toffee and bread aroma and taste. Dry finish.

bottle. clear brown amber, small white head. aroma is sort of smoked, sawdusty. flavor is slightly sourish, ytellow fruits, raisins, yeasty.

Bottled, Batch 40. Poured clear honeyed orange with a short cap of white head, even when agitated. The aroma was quite sour with cherry vinegar and lactic notes leading.. a bit of apple tails off the back. The flavor was dominated by the sourness as well, with dry vinegar, oak, and darker fruits responsible.. honey sweetness and cardboard supported.. sour, rather quick finish. Medium-bodied with low carbonation on the palate.. the sourness wasn’t expected, nor was it welcomed in here.. I could tell that there was decent stuff deep down, but it was drowned out.

Batch 39. Hotd rose- dusty sweet oxidized, nutty? Apple. Yeasty sweet. Floral notes on the nose. Hazy ass end pour orange brown hues. No head. Vegetal odd. Dusty oxidized apples bread. Medium to large carb. Dirt and earth. Meh. 7 3 6 3 13

12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy deep copper color with very little head. The aroma is floral, fruity, sweet bread, and some caramelized sugar. The flavor has a nice dose of dark fruits, moderately sweet malt, and caramelized sugar. I get some floral notes and perhaps this is what the bitterness comes from. The alcohol also shows from time to time. There is something else that I can’t place, but distracts from the overall. I failed to record the batch # so this could have had some age.

Batch 39. Dark dijon mustard and murky, very dry grassy aroma on the edges and blackberry patch. Dark hazelnut side to the classic honey cotton nectar tripel side, but I don’t think they’re as together as they were.

Magnum, batch 39. Thanks, MegaMaltMan! Wow, what a treat. Pours avery slightly hazy light amber with loose clear bubbles. Gets much, much cloudier just a couple more inches into the neck. Caramel, sweet cream, and brown bread on the nose. Creamy, sticky body. Creamy, dusty, green apple-y, and caramelly mid-palate. Lovely stuff. The age serves it well.