Left Hand Chainsaw Ale (Double Sawtooth)

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

Tried this at DuffmanSWs beer tasting event. Dark chestnut brown color with 1/2 inch think creamy head. Had a bit of coconut aroma with a caramel sweet flavor and a smooth finish. Thanks for bringing this guys.

750ml bottle courtesy of Mikeandi I believe, thanks guys. Reddish/brown color. Aroma was alot more malty than hoppy, some caramel as well. Very bitter flavor though, hops were still there, contrary to the aroma. Very interesting.

From the tap poured a dark amber color with a fair amount of head. Nice strong malty flavor with a lingering finish.

In short: An aggressive, toasted and relatively dry kind-of Double IPA. Tasty but far from highly drinkable.
How: Bottle 750ml. Consumed about 6 months after purchase.
The look: Cloudy orangey copper topped by a medium beige head
In long: Nose is sweet toffee/caramel, resinous hops and ripe citrus fruits. Taste is aggressively unrefined. Sugary dried caramel, toasted biscuits, sawdust, biting alcohol, dried toffee, resinous bitterness, brown sugar. This really tastes like old toasted dried caramel cookies with a truckload of resinous hops. I personally would have preferred a hopping with a juicy character or something like that to increase dinkability. The mouth-drying sawdust-like astringency was a bit too much. Even the alcohol presence was more than it should be. As it stands this beer much too sharp/aggressive for its own good. Drinking a 750ml took me about one hour. And those knowing me can tell you that this is like Kirstie Alley taking 30 minutes to eat a little shrimp appetizer.

I thought this was an Imperial/Double IPA which is why I bought it. It has a nice look. Dark brown nearly opaque. A nice looking beer, but nothing over the top. A nice fluffy head sits on top. Looks good, but tastes good is another story. Huge malty aroma. Not room for the hops to come out; if there are any that is!? I just don’t like American Strong Ale with huge malt aroma, and no friggin hops especially when they cost $12. This beer has a nice malt smell but it just overshadows everything else that I suspect in this beer. You get a decent hop taste. Along with an impressive caramel malt that is sort of roast-like. Wow, this has an interesting flavor. Very nice hop flavor with a hint of bitter aftertaste. I am liking that ash/wood aspect, but the hops are missing with this. I am sorry, but everything is great. The beer has a nice creamy texture, a nice malt aroma, and a nice malt taste, with a slight hint of bitter aftertaste, but the hops are just missing. Overall, pretty good exceeded my expectations, but there are better and cheaper American Strong Ales.

Pours a copper amber, with a small off tan head. Smells of sweet caramel malts, with decent doses of hops. Nothing special, but nothing bad here. The flavor was a little dry and mellowed, but the hops were still there to give it a little life. Some caramel malts show up just in time in the finish to balance it out a bit, but overall I wasnt impressed with the flavors in this brew. Just kind of dreary and boring.

750, corked and baled. Pours clear coppery amber with a thick and lacy off-white head. Aroma of brown sugar, citrus, fruit, resin. Full body and moderate carbonation. Sweet taste of brown sugar, figs, vanilla. Bitter earth, wood and resin finish. Not bad, but I think I might be happier with two Sawtooths than one Chainsaw.

Pours brown with copper edges and tan head. The aroma is full on crystal malts mixing with pine hops, grassiness and resin. Overall the aroma seems maltier than it is hoppy. The taste is very nice with crystal malts, a touch of chocolate and black tea and then moving into pine hop bitterness and some grassiness. Great flavor combination. Seems this sample may not be terrifically fresh with sharp hop notes but they have held up nicely.