Doggie Claws
Hair of the Dog Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.69
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Doggie Claws is a Barley Wine made in the West Coast style. Big malt and hops make this copper colored ale one of our most popular products. Produced in September and October and released in November, this Beer will improve for years to come.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask days 2016. Dark brown pour, Cloudy, with a big light brown head. Super sticky lacing, and sticky sweet Aroma. Lots of toffee, and caramel, with huge pine resin notes. Nutty, roasty, hints of coffee, boozy bread. Silky and viscous mouth feel, soft carb. Very high bitterness with huge pine resin finish. This is a big beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From tap at Borefts 2017. Aroma is sweetish caramel malt with ripe fruits, light hoppy notes, toffee, wet wood, raisins, and alcohol. Flavour is sweet and mildly bitter. Body is medium to full. Nice Barley Wine.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 9
Overall 9
Pour from magnum bottle, 2004 bottling date. Pours dark brown with red highlights when held to the window. Beige head is on the smaller side and slowly dissipates to a fine ring. Aroma is dark fruits, anise and colas. The taste has anise, licorice, cola, raisins, walnuts and some deftly applied spices. The palate is medium in viscosity and the carbonation is soft. Finishes long and semi sweet and perhaps just a touch cloying. Overall: just lovely. This is a beer nerds beer and so I loved it. Paired well with some smoked Gouda cheese.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2024
at 20:14
7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
2006 version -aromas are lots of dark rape fruits such as figs dates and raisins, molasses and leather. A hint of floral. Flavors are sweet up front but a heavy bitter finish. Massive beer. No sign of the 10.5% ABV. A sipper for sure. Maybe overaged. --- Beer merged from original tick of Doggie Claws (2003-) on 14 Mar 2025 at 04:28
Tried
from Bottle
at
Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
on 25 Jun 2024
at 23:25
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 2020 vintage. Pours dark brown. Toffee, raisins, port, dark cherry, Christmas pudding, clotted cream, prune. Medium body. Outstanding.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2023
at 01:31
6.6/10
This verion i had at BeerTenple Amsterdam is trash. But I’m sure it’s old and it just tastes like stale oxidative junk. Can’t rate it well but can’t destroy it
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jul 2023
at 22:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Sample from 2005 bottle at Kurtkeller 031: Christmas-tastic 02 on 12/17/2022.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2023
at 21:56
8/10
Caramely malty and heavy with toffee and syrupy notes. Quite well aged and tasty vintage
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2022
at 00:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a hazy reddish brown colour with a small frothy off white head. Aroma's: funky, light sweet. Retronasal: old, sweetish, funky. Flavour is moderate sweet & bitter. Medium bodied. Above moderate bitter finish. Seems somewhat old (and it might be, as HotD recently closed).
Tried
from Draft
at
BeerTemple
on 14 Jun 2022
at 16:10
8/10
Can't believe my eyes! Real ale in Athens in the middle of the winter. Bartender doesn't even know what real ale means! Sweetish, citrusy, caramel, toffee, alcohol, mellow, nice
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Dec 2021
at 20:51