Adam from the Wood - Cherry
(has 8 batches)
Hair of the Dog Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Adambier Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.95
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Cherry Adam from the Wood is aged with locally grown black cherries in oak casks for 15 months. The fruit lends a sweet tartness to the finish, melding with the wood and adding a new dimension of complexity. The 2008 bottling celebrates 15 years of business for me and was aged in Bourbon and Sherry barrels. The 2009 bottling was aged exclusively in Elijah Craig Bourbon barrels.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle at home. Vintage 2015. black color, almost no head. smells of coconuts, wood, ripe fruits, liqueur, light caramel, nutty, marzipan, light berry notes. very nice smell. full body, almost no carbonation, oily mouthfeel. tastes of ripe fruits, berry notes, some booze, liqueurish, nice wood notes, coconut, marzipan, nutty, licorice, caramel. finishes light to medium sweet with notes of coconut, berry notes and some liqueur notes. very nice one, a bit too boozy for me overall, but very smooth. lovely wood notes, beer got quite a bit better with some breathing. overall very nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2017
at 13:25
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
At ACBF, poured by mr. Sprints himself. I have been reading about this for a while so curious to taste it. Pale beige, bubbly, loose, quickly disappearing head, warm dark bronze colour with mahogany brown hue, hazy. Strong aroma of sour cherries, wet oak wood, sweet sherry, dried plum, wet leather, vanilla, horse steak. Sweet candied fig in the mouth paired with sour blackberry and indeed sour cherry tartness contrasting with the sweetness, dried meat-like umami accent, bit leathery, slick and rather viscous, full mouthfeel, thick toffeeish malt body with the meaty umami, sour fruits and residual sweetness all playing on top of it, quite a lot of brown rum-like alcohol in the end, long and dry but nothing too astringent, lingering fruit tartness and dryness of woody tannins. Impressive top-fermented fruit beer of great complexity.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Mar 2017
at 13:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from tap at ACBF 2017. Dark reddish brown to black with a beige layer. Sweetish-malty, slightly roasty aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, molasses and toasted nuts. Very sweet, malty and slightly roasty taste of dark chocolate, coffee, licorice, oak and some red fruits, followed by a medium long, moderately roasty-bitter, a little dry and moderately warming finish. Medium to full body, creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Very good, but I hoped for a bit more to be honest.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Mar 2017
at 02:18
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle kindly shared by pilsnertest. Pours dark reddish brown. Completely still. Big aroma and taste with sugar syrup, dark fruit, prunes, toasted oak, cherry. Oily texture with a slight hit of booze. Magnificent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2017
at 12:12