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Left Hand Sawtooth Ale

Left Hand Sawtooth Ale - Premium Bitter/ESB

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 Percentile 
67
overall
Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB

Longmont, Colorado USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6513.21/5.03.21/5.04.75%72.5English pint
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Commercial Description:
Sawtooth Ale is an English style Extra Special Bitter. It is an extremely well balanced beer, with significant hop character, medium body, and a maltiness which increases in evidence as the beer warms to its "proper" drinking temperature. . The water used is quite hard, bringing it to near Burton on Trent levels, keeping it true to the style. This gives it the appropriate character and improves the malt extract significantly.
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 jblendy (518), Midland Park, New Jersey, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/513/20
Jan 13, 2007  
Pours light amber with a small white head. Light grassy, floral, and roasty malt aroma. Flavor is a bit watery, but there is still a nice hop character and roasty malt notes. Palate is light/medium, resiny hops, watery, and a bit of roasty nutty malt. Not bad, just not a whole lot going on. Could certainly drink a bunch of these though.


 paulmetzger (152), Pocatello, Idaho, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Jan 13, 2007  
Quite red amber very clear with plenty of carbonation. Aroma is most noticeably grapefruit and other citrus. Just a hint of sweet fruits. Starts fairly dry, there’s a nice hop bite, and then finishes smooth and only a little sweet. Slightly metallic. A remarkably drinkable ale.


 thefederalist (226), Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/58/104/512/20
Jan 13, 2007  
Pours amber with a nice head. Aroma is malty and grassy. Flavor is nutty and a little funk from one of the hops. I am beginning to think that there is a particular hop variety that I am not fond of because this flavor appears in many beers. Otherwise a nice, drinkable ESB.


 Tranquillity (1165), Espoo, Finland
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/57/103/58/20
Jan 12, 2007  
Weird aroma. Sweet brea-yeast flavour, some perfume. Medium-brown colour, small white head which disappears. Nice sweet taste, short bitterness. After a while it gets boring and too sweet.


 sayravai (3720), Helsinki, Finland
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/513/20
Jan 11, 2007  
(Bottled) Quite clear, darkish amber color with a smallish-medium head. Mild, berry-winous aroma. Sweetish berry flavor. Medium-bodied palate with smooth carbonation. A quite modest brew. I had a nice rating of this one, but it got lost, thanks to my Nokia E70, and had to rewrite the whole thing. Oh well...


 kreepindeth (405), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Jan 7, 2007  
This beer has gotten me into ESBs. Extremely well balanced beer. Malt and hops are both present. Starts out with sweet toasty malts and ends in a light hoppy bite.


 ford9719 (369), Vilseck, Germany
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/53/102/510/20
Dec 30, 2006  
Bottle. Poured a golden color with a white head. Aroma of citrus. Has a hoppy taste with a citrus aftertaste.


 cbkschubert (1945), Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Dec 29, 2006  
22 oz. bottle from AJ’s Fine Food - Pours a clear amber color with a one finger thick off white head. Light spotty lacing. Has a toated malt and herbal hop aroma. Light malt flavor. Palate is thin and bitter. Light to medium body. Worth a try.



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