Left Hand Bards Ale

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Mild Ale
Longmont, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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On tap at the brewery, pours dark brownish with a tan head. Aroma has notes of toffee, spice, some nuttiness in there, with a touch of grass as well. Taste is pretty nice, some slight dark fruit goes with the toffee, brown sugar, spice, and slight grass and bready notes in there. Pretty tasty.

I don’t think this is only 2%, but it is mild. Orange-brown, a little hazy. Soapy off-white head. Malty, with some English fruity/fishy tastes going on. A little soapy and harsh, doesn’t quite pull off the subtlety of most UK beers. Drinkable, but doesn’t really nail the style.

On Tap at the Left Hand Brewing Company, Longmont 23/09/2009 Small tan head. Mid brown coloured smooth on the palate and slightly hoppy with a little dryness in a malt finish.

On draft at Left Hand during GABF 2009. Pours a clear dark brown with reddish highlights and one finger tan head. Aroma is chocolate, malt, caramel, nuts, light spice. Flavor is much of the same with a slightly smoky and burnt toast taste. Light body with a malty finish. Interesting.

Nice chocolate aroma and taste. Mild hops w/ wheat finish. On tap at brewpub a few months back.

on tap-pours a creamy/rocky tan head and red color. Aroma is smoky, bitter hops. Taste is smoky, faint bitter hops, thin. Minimum carbonation.

sampled at tasting room. brown pour with no head. very clear. malty aroma. watery, burnt and smoky body. Very weak and pretty bad.

Light malt aroma, no hop notes. .. . Dark brown, clear with a short-lived head. .. . Malty, yet watery. No Hops. Definitely light.. .. Light body, medium carbonation. .. . A ’dark light’ beer. Pretty good mild ale.

Draught at the Left Hand Tap House. Beer’s a very dark brown with an average-sized, frothy, white, creamy head that’s mostly and quickly diminishing. The aroma is roasty, but otherwise plain. Malty with light-to-moderate notes of roasted grain, chocolate and a light note of molasses; Hoppy with a light-to-moderate herbal note; Trace miscellaneous note of green olive/brine, light notes of plum and top soil. The flavor was moderately sweet, moderately acidic, trace bitter with a short, trace acidic, lightly bittersweet finish. Roasty retros, trace feeling of astringency on the gums. The body was light-to-medium, the texture was velvety and the carbonation was lively.

Draught (cask) at Left Hand in Longmont. Pours nut brown with a tiny rocky tan head quickly resolving to some minor spotty lacing. Sweet caramel malt and fuit hop aromas with hints of bread-like sweet yeast. Sour fruit hop and caramel malt flavor with just a hint of light chocolate. Medium bodied and smooth palate.