Hair of the Dog Adam

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

12oz bottle from Brewforia, batch 77
Appearance: Pours thick dark brown, almost black with a very small head and no lacing
Aroma: Ahhhh, nice. Smokey, chocolate and dark malts
Taste: Rich, smooth mouthfeel. Dark malts, smokey and chocolate with some bitterness and light amount of hot alcohols in the finish
Very nice beer. This is one of those beers that had a bite but is very smooth and easy to drink.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

12/02/06 Walk the Line Barleywine Festival, Dunedin, FL. Batch #48 sampled from what I think was a 1.5L grand cru type bottle. The beer poured brownish with a decent tan head. Wow, full aroma of smoky oakiness, peat and sweet caramel. The flavor was a lot like the aroma only smoother. Delicious mouth feel with up from peat and smoke that blended in with a narrow vein of sweet caramel. Very very smooth. This is one of the beers (one of many) I’ve always wanted to try but figured it would never happen. A special thanks to kk for bringing out this luscious elixir.

May 2008.
Batch 66. Pours dark dark brown with amber edges and lasting tan head. The aroma is big earthiness followed by sweet cherry candy mixed with herbal notes. Behind that I get dark fruity esters coming from plums and dark grapes along with and sweet caramel candy. The taste is just like the aroma with loads of complexity starting with full on earthiness mixed with sweet dark fruitiness followed by herbal notes, sweet caramel candy and rich tasty chocolate malts. The herbal notes grow into the finish. YUM.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Bottle: Poured a dark black with a creamy tan color head. Aroma are dark fruit and malty. Taste is sweet malts, dark fruit, some alcohol warming, I get some tobacco leaf in the finish.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Batch #25, 98 vintage. Found this sucker while i was diggin through my beer stash the other day. Poured damn near flat. Slight light brown head that fades into a small thin island that floats right on top the lenght of this beer. Hazy dark brown color. Nose of butterscotch, roasted malts and some smoke and spices. Full/medium bodied, slick oily/coating mouthfeel Nice roasty, chocolatey, licoricey flavors with a slight mustiness that doesnt hurt the flavor profile at all. Finish is fairly dry, woody , minty. Nice little surprise find.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottle - Batch #47. Per the Hair Of The Dog website, this was bottled in Septmerb 2000. Black pour with a peppering of sediment around the bottom of the glass. Fading tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, burnt caramel, coffee and chocolate. Taste is roasted malt, chocolate, light booze, dark fruit, caramel and coffee notes. Body is medium with a faint, bubbly carbonation. Ends with more roasted malt, toasted grains, caramel, chocolate notes, coffee and light booze.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Comes out of the tap an opaque sable with a yellowish pale tan head. Aroma is mainly malty and has a chocolaty undertone.Malty flavor is somewhat sweet and has a chocolate tone plus nutty and coffee undertones. Texture is thick, smooth and subtly fizzy, on the heavy side. Definitely worthy!

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 10

Wish List item FOREVER! Finally, and at the source too! Deep caramel colored pour, tight light beige head, some lacing. Sweet malty and very lightly smoked aroma and first flavor, then some ripe cherries, leather and some tobacco, light booze, toffee. Just a Monster of a beer that is what I hoped it would be - EPIC.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

My first ever bottle of this was extremely flat. This bottle is overly carbonated. Hooray for batch variation. Brown/black pour with an excessive head. Aromas of bubblegum, bitter cocoa, and smoked malt. Metallic taste with tons of smoke. The metallic taste ruins it. I really don't dig batch variation - my first experience was a drain pour and this one had a tangy flavor to go with over carbonation. I'm done trying this brew.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Had the pleasure of meeting Alan the brewer on a very hung over morning in Portland (turned out Fred from the Wood wasn't the solution to what ailed me). I am so impressed with what these guys do. And they deserve all the credit they get. Especially for Adam. Holymoly. There is so much taste complexity, I don't know where to begin. I don't love the smokiness, but it's nicely done. Even the chocolate and coffee notes are unique, super creamy, a touch hot, but just a touch, as well as a little tobacco/pepper. Can't do it justice in words, it's like an opera in your mouth.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

HotD delivers again with this beer. Chocolate consumed in a cigar smoking room (but not where someone is actually presently smoking a cigar, more that the room is just permiated with the cigars presence). Really unique beer. Has an "old world" charm that is represented in a distinctly non-West Coast rough edge the the flavour, something just a touch funky (not sour), just not smooth drop down the hatch-ness. Like a beautiful old chandelier that was dropped, it has character that lends to the beauty. How to describe that in flavours though? Beyond me. No perceptible alcohol, maybe a touch of orange or cherry ganache, or both. Must find again and do better.