Matt
(has 2 batches)
Hair of the Dog Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Regular Out of Production|
Score
8.15
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Matt was inspired by Matt VandenBerghe and Matt Bonney (Bottleworks and Brouwers in Seattle), who personify the spirit and dedication that has helped craft beer become the vibrant industry it is today. This Beer was originally Brewed to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Bottleworks, and will be released every few years from the Brewery. Matt is made with two Munich malts, two Smoked malts and two types of Belgian candy sugar. It is aged in Kentucky Bourbon and Apple Eau de Vie barrels from Clear Creek distilling. Matt is deep and lush with notes of apple, chocolate and smoke.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle - thanks BuckeyeBoy. Pours a dark leathery brown with a thin, creamy tan head. Artful bits of sticky lacing. Sweet aroma is malty, dark fruits, brown sugar, and barrel notes. Flavor is rich and smooth. A very well balanced and blended taste of malt, dark pitted fruits, bananas, cloves, vinous, chocolate, and barrel notes. Silky and warming. Absolutely wonderful. I wonder what it would be like to freeze it twice and barrel age it for 20 years...
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2009
at 14:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of Tweety. Pours a clear warm reddish brown with a small, rough off-white head. Intense aroma of dried fruit and some bourbon. Quite full-bodied but rather flat, hard roasted malt, Bourbon notes but also peaty whisky. Dried fruit - prunes in particular. Warming alcoholic finish. 240709
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2009
at 09:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled, thanks xmarcnolanx! Pours thick with mahogany colour, almost no head. Woody pear abd orange aroma. Concentrated flavours with plenty of smoke, wood and caramel. Very powerful with massive amounts of soft malt backing up the high alcohol creating a warming, full flavoured concotion that are to be enjoyed very carefully.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2009
at 04:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black with a tiny white beige head. Sweet aroma with burned malt, chocolate and coffee notes. Sweet flavour with roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate and smoke. Finished sweet.
Tried
on 23 Aug 2009
at 15:35
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Big thanks to fishingnet for scoring several of these. You ROCK my friend. It pours deep dark brown with copper edges and thin tan head. The aroma is fruity, tart (a bit of crushed aspirin maybe), some booze, rich ripe dark cherries and smooth rich malts way in the back. In the taste I get a high level of something I like to call: holy shit good. That level of goodness is brimming with rich creamy dark fruitiness along with chewy rich malt sweetness. Nice combination. It then gets a somewhat ripe cherry like flavor to go along with additional notes of caramel, dark ripe grapes, molasses and some booze. Yummy, sweet, and full of assertive yummy goodness. Everything I like in a beer.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2009
at 22:18
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown with a small redish glare and a minimal white head. Cherry fruity and roasted malt aroma. Sweet malty and light honey like flavoured. Smooth fruity and roasted malt flavoured. Lingering smooth finish with a nice malt, cherry and honey mix of flavours. Just my simple reference of flavours.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2009
at 19:13
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. A brown beer with a lazing tan head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, malt, roasted malt, wood, and chocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, chocolate, wood, and over ripe fruits, leading to an alcoholic finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2009
at 17:44
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
No head, flat as a pancake; near-black beer with reddish shine. Superb, alcoholic/fruity nose, complex, cognac-like, vanilla from new oak. Alcoholic, fusels, vanilla & Bourbon casks; sweet-ish, bananaester, oranges. Aftertaste with raisins in cognac. Very viscous, alcohol thinning the body. The nose is something out of a wet beer dream. The rest isn’t exactly bad, neither.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Jul 2009
at 14:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
No carbonation. Very dark brown. Lots of oak, some light bourbon, and a fairly thick palate. Not so much bourbon that it is ruined, and the bourbon is good so it works. Dry finish, but I don’t detect the smoke. Traditional ale? What kind of traditional ale?
Tried
on 17 May 2009
at 19:04
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle Have had this 2 times in the last 2 weeks. This beer is very nice and will get even better with age. Pours out a very dark brown topped with a tiny ring head. Aroma of sweet malts, smoke and some pit fruit. Tast was smoke, pit fruit, rich malts. A lot of stuff going on hear.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2009
at 00:01