Tonight's beer: Hair of the Dog Adam (batch 77)
Smoke and chocolate up front, with dark-bread/toast/caramel right behind, with dark dried/candied/burnt fruits filling in the gaps. Earthy-peaty-grassy bitterness around the perimeter. There might be a touch of spice, somethere, with a distinctly vinous/tannic snap on the finish, and a brush of booze/spirits (brandy, whiskey, etc.).
Medium-bodied, bordering on heavy, with not much (if any) carbonation, but a strong (if not unpleasant) alcohol presence. Somehow manages to be simultaneously sticky and smoky-roasty-drying. Some pucker that fesls almost tannic--round but somehow hard.
Nice big complex beer. It's my undertstanding that Hair of the Dog have reconstructed/resurrected a basically defunct style here--Old Ale is the nearest extant common style. Complex and integrated, and clearly a beer that doesn't mind sitting around for a while. Makes me curious to try some of their other beers.
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| Hair of the Dog Adam (batch 77) |
Smoke and chocolate up front, with dark-bread/toast/caramel right behind, with dark dried/candied/burnt fruits filling in the gaps. Earthy-peaty-grassy bitterness around the perimeter. There might be a touch of spice, somethere, with a distinctly vinous/tannic snap on the finish, and a brush of booze/spirits (brandy, whiskey, etc.).
Medium-bodied, bordering on heavy, with not much (if any) carbonation, but a strong (if not unpleasant) alcohol presence. Somehow manages to be simultaneously sticky and smoky-roasty-drying. Some pucker that fesls almost tannic--round but somehow hard.
Nice big complex beer. It's my undertstanding that Hair of the Dog have reconstructed/resurrected a basically defunct style here--Old Ale is the nearest extant common style. Complex and integrated, and clearly a beer that doesn't mind sitting around for a while. Makes me curious to try some of their other beers.
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