Left Hand Sawtooth Ale

not a great beer. Decent at best. ESB’s are not my favorite so I can’t really make a good comment. Possibly I should try this at it’s ’proper’ drinking temp.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear, golden orange with a white head. Aromas of caramel and citrus. Flavors of grapefruit and caramel malt with a bitter finish.

On draft at Zeno’s, Penn State. Poured clear amber with fluffy head. Nose was sweet with a touch of lemony citrus. Flavor included notes of caramel and sweet malts. Mildly bitter finish.

Overall a light good beer. I enjoyed it. The smell was fairly faint to me and the head disapeered rather quickly. Also the taste was nice for as long as it lasted which wasn’t very long. Although the back of your mouth still gets some of a fainter taste to it. Has a minor bite with a bitter taste to it. I’d definetly drink this beer again.

Pours transparent amber, medium sized head, much lacing. More malt than expected (But I drink mostly IPAs). It’s OK, not spectacular.

Bottle. Pours a lighter amber with s good head and decent lacing. Nose is lightly hopped with some malts. Beer was flat with no flavor hills and valley, no journey for the taste buds. One level of slight bitterness throughout. Sort of non-descript in an unoffensive way. Nothing special, a very average brew. Thanks to ogglethorp for this bottle.

Aroma is pleasant: spruce, nuts and cereal. Could have used a little more hop bitterness in the finish. Drink, rate and probably never buy again.

Appearance and aroma best parts of this beer, not actually necessary to drink it. Rich gold body, firm head, good lacing. Nose of sweet malts and hops. Taste of toffee and caramel, sweet malts and British hops, balanced, with a good bitter finish.