Hair of the Dog Rose

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

Again huge head; I think I am liking hair of the dog!! Batch 36 and fanf%$&ingtastic. Sweet taste and dry finish. Perfect, almost.

Cloudy yellow with a big, beautiful head. Spicy, citrus and vanilla aroma. The taste was all vanilla nicely balanced with mellow yeastiness. This was fantastic. Sweet, sticky, spicy and just the right bitterness.

12 oz. bottle of HOTD Golden Rose, batch 32. Bottle conditioned for a while I guess, since they don’t label them like this anymore. Poured a reddish oxidized bronze color with a small white head that diminished fairly quickly. Cloudy liquid with a little sediment. Guess I poured it too fast. An awesomely complex nose with big aromas of mandarin oranges and raisins and an old port. Light malty smell with some butter, vanilla, cane sugar, and vinegar. Has a lot in common with the boquete of a sur lie chardonnay. The aroma just seemed to build and build. Some initial sourness of apple cider vinegar nicely balanced with sweet sherry or brandy and some mellow buttery notes. LIvely carbonation. A nice, long, refreshing, and moderately sweet finish. I was blown away by how good this was. A fine beer and highly recommended.

Had a few bottles of this while watching the game. Very fruity and complex nose. Very pleasant notes of berries, flowers, spice, oats, cinnamon, and brown sugar. I swear it smells exactly like Cap’n Crunch Crunchberries Cereal. Pours a cloudy honey with lots of floaties. The massive dense white head is rocky and mostly lasting with great lacing. Heavyweight flavor that is very warm and deep. No shortage of balance here either. The long finish is bitter, sweet, spicy, and sour. The medium ultra creamy body is lively, and finishes alcoholic. This is a colossal brew. Hair of the Dog brews are at the top of my wishlist now.

batch 33 served in a tulip at Toronado, perfect looking in the glass, golden glowing and Chimay foam, floral sweetness, malt cookie clean on alcohol vapor trails, herbal, delicious! -- some sea monkeys though few and very tiny. Orangey flavors and neroli nose notes, tangy and with citric acid feel, nectarine and rindy. This is definitely a sipping beer bordering on brutal. Lots of character and the biggest tripel-category-twister I’ve had. Hints of peat.

Batch 35. Very Belgian. Gold/orange with abundant tan head. Yeasty/biscuit flavor, with excellent subtle floral aroma, suggestive of roses as the name implies. I think the alcohol content is higher than the bottle and the site listing say...

rose, bless her heart, pours the color of bright golden virginia tobacco, softened by a breath of haze. a creamy smooth head resides permanently--intractably topside. aroma is a ripe candied fruit smell: a fruit half-way between peach and cantaloupe, with alpine summer meadows of warm grasses and the breezy perfume of flowers. the character evolves as it warms, and as more of that chunky cargo still floating in the bottle comes into play. (the brewer generously included a couple extra servings of yeast right in the bottle in case you feel it requires it. like a few extra buttons sewn inside a good jacket, it makes it seem classier). with just a sip, the flavor is a gorgeous medley of effects: a brassy carbonation leads, but as it yields, the sweetness melts over the palate like a buttery fruit cocktail, with yeasty bread dough flavors. finally, bitterness creeps on so slowly it actually creates suspense. mild hops are sufficient to enchant the sweetness, and to tender a graceful finish of honied cognac.

This is absolutlely excellent! The aroma is so full of cinnamon sugar apple danish and a hint of bananna that it is hard to put it down! This is sweet wonderful yummy beer!