Left Hand Midnight Project Oxymoron India Pale Lager

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Longmont, Colorado USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Footed Pilsner, Lager glass, Stein

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Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty aroma with weak smokey hints. Fruity malty grainy caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with weak smokey hints.

(Draught) Pours a clear golden body with a dense cream head. Aroma of caramel, tangerine, citrus, and pine. Flavor of caramel, orange, tangerine, light pine, and herbs with a dry, bitter finish.

Name: Oxymoron
Date: October 25, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brusin Ales, Asheville NC
Appearance: clear dark copper, frothy off white head, lots of sticky lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, candy sweetness, very fruity, balancing woodsy earthyness
Flavor: rich malt flavor, dry and earthy, lots of bitterness, touch of malty sheetness adds the needed balance
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

22oz bottle. Small beige head atop crystal clear amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, grapefruit/lemon, caramel, some lager yeast, light orange. Taste is moderately sweet, orange/grapefruit, some lemon/lager yeast, caramel. Medium-full body, light stickiness.

22oz bottle @PreJam Gathering-pours a foamy tan head and amber color. Aroma is mild pine/earthy. Taste is mild pine/earthy.

On Tap at Left Hand Brewing Company, Longmont 15/09/2010 Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured floral hoppy and smooth on the palate with a hint of dryness in a bitter and creamy malt finish.

Bomber from Ace in Boulder, CO. Pours clear amber/copper with a foamy off-white head. Aroma is roast caramel. Hop? Med body with frothy carbonation. Flavor is pale malt and a heck of a lot of hop. Grassy/herby hop. Noble hop. Not pure Saaz. But very nice. It starts to finish sweet and then the hop goes bump. Incredibly delicious.

Bottle… Clear amber lager with a mid-sized, fluffy, white head. Excellent retention. The aroma reeks of way too many spicy, musky, resiny and peppery German hops. There’s also mild biscuit and medium-roast malt thrown into the aromatic mix, but overall there’s just way too much lupulin here from a hop growing region that I don’t particularly care for. Medium to full-bodied with kicked-back carbonation. The flavor is all about the hops. As previously mentioned, they aren’t my favorite varietals, but they certainly are intense. Even at room temperature, the sweetness is very low and my palate is bombarded by sharp, tannic, walnut skin bitterness. Finishes astringent, bitter and dry.

On tap at Capone’s. Poured a medium golden/amber color with a small sized head. Aromas and tastes of some earthiness, grassy, earthy, and graininess. Clean finish.

Bomber poured a clear golden amber with a small lingering amber head. Aromas of biscuit, orange zest, spicy hops, earthiness, tropical fruit and apricot. Palate was medium bodied anmd smooth withj a dry finish. Flavors of biscuit, earthiness, spicy hops, orange zest and light carmel with a smooth dry moderatly bitter finish.