Fred from the Wood
Hair of the Dog Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.00
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Fred from the Wood is aged in new, medium toast American oak barrels for at least 6 months.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Draft at the Portland brewery. Dark golden and clear, full bodied almost syrupy. Cognac and wood aroma, sweet caramel taste. Wow.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Sep 2018
at 02:14
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle form the dregs run, cheers Craig. Pours dark golden with a thin white head. Aromas of wood, booze, leather, dark sugar. Taste is boozy, more oak and vanilla. Sticky finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2018
at 07:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Jeremy. Really smooth, sharp ABV notes in the aroma. Malty sweet and boozy. Perfect all the way around.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2018
at 23:30
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
(On tap @ Omnipollos Hatt, Stockholm, Oct 8/17) Pours a slightly hazy brownish-gold/amber with a tiny white ring of head. Nose is loaded with oak and vanilla, sweetish light caramel, dried pale pit fruit and golden raisins, slightly grainy malt, resinous hops with a bit of citrus, leather. Flavour is big and aggressive, big punch of pale caramel, dried pale fruit, vanilla and oak again, bitter tannic wood and resinous hops, a bit citric, solidly alcoholic, initial sweetness is dried down a lot with the booze and high bitterness, dry oak. Aftertaste is heavily bitter and dry. Medium-full bodied, low carbonation. Bold compared to the base Fred, some of the fruit nuances are buried under substantial oak though.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Oct 2017
at 13:16
6/10
Tried
on 05 Oct 2017
at 17:01
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Draft @ Borefts 2017. Deep amber brownish color, mostly clear. No head to speak of. Aroma's: sweetish, woody, fruity/alcohol. Retronasal it's alcoholic, fruity, wood. Flavor is moderate sweet, vanilla, woody.. Rather strong alcohol feel. Medium bodied. Long finish, woody and somewhat bitter.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2017
at 12:17
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
@Borefts 2017 van tap schenkt als siroop, bruin met lichte kraag, aroma van bourbon, zacht, redelijk zoet, alcohol, smaken zijn redelijk zoet, glad/zacht, vanille, bourbon, donker fruit, graan, eiken, vanille, siroopachtig/romig mondgevoel, enorm smaakvol, super
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2017
at 13:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampled from tap at Borefts 2017. Clear, golden amber with a white head. Sweetish, malty and slightly fruity aroma of caramel, honey, sultanas and oak. Very sweet, malty and a little fruity taste of caramel, honey, sultanas, oak and vanilla, followed by a long, moderately bitter, noticeably boozy and slightly woody finish. Full body, oily mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Very nice!
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2017
at 00:38
8/10
Woody indeed. Quite a bit dryer than the regular. Boozy and thick. Not bad at all.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Sep 2017
at 22:00
8/10
Tried
on 22 Sep 2017
at 12:39