Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

Type of beer: Barleywine

Container Type: 355 mL bottle

Alcohol by volume: 10.50%

Country of origin: United States

Rating: 70% (see below)

Number of times I've had this beer: 1st

Cost: $1.25

Tasted on: 6/18/10

Colours of label: Blue/Purple/Yellow

Drank From: Ginny glass

Label Reads: “Horn Dog is a big, malty monster of a beer. Fortunately, its wrath is moderately hopped and tastes like licorice and chocolate. Horn is such a robust beast that we have to keep it caged and contained at the brewery for a couple months before letting it integrate with the public.”

website: www.flyingdogales.com

Best for: After.

Ratings:

Taste: 12/20

Flavour: 14/20

Buy again: 12/20

Aroma: 7/10

Satisfaction: 9/10

Complexity: 7/10

Intangible: 7/10

Handwritten notes: This is a syrupy mouth explosion but not a hop firework. The pungent aroma of boozy pineapple presents itself but the taste is of a smoothly-bitter beer with an almost whiskey-like aftertaste. This beer is heart and stomach warming, leaving a lingering bite in the back of the throat making it hard to forget. There's something missing, though, to my mind. Like (go with me here) it could have stood up to a bunch of bitter-ass hops with a million + IBUs and still fared well. Finally, I'm sick of this company's "dog" beer names. Enough. The only way to win me back now is to do a beer called "Dirt Dog Dirty Bastard Ale".

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