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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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 bu11zeye (5430), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/514/20
Nov 20, 2006  
(Bottle) Pours a clear amber-brown body with a small off-white head. Aroma of toasted malt, nuts, and caramel. Flavor of malt, nuts, and caramel.


 HumuloneRed (750), Portland, Oregon, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Nov 15, 2006  
Pours a clear medium amber color with an off white head and sticky lacing. Malt and grass in the nose. Smooth and balanced malty flavor. Good beer.


 Hugerat (432), somerville, Massachusetts, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/56/103/511/20
Nov 13, 2006  
Deep copper-brown color with a thin head. Mildly sweet caramel malt flavors and low carbonation. The finish has just enough hops to prevent it from being cloyingly sweet. Not bad for the style, but ESB just isn’t that exciting.


lunatic77 (14), Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/510/104/515/20
Nov 13, 2006    Updated: Dec 15, 2006
not being a big fan of ESB’s, i was not excited about this one. but after trying it in colorado on tap, i was pleasantly surprised. this one is copper with a small white head diminishing quickly. the flavor was hoppy and malty but smoothly bitter. overall a well-balanced ESB.


 MrBendo (1039), Swedesboro, New Jersey, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/514/20
Nov 12, 2006  
Bottle. aroma af hops with no malt. medium bitterness. Tastes like a really good pale ale to me. I guess I can’t taste the hard water.


 Ibrew2or3 (2714), Safety Harbor, Florida, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Nov 9, 2006  
Slightly murky orange color with thin off white head. A rather full malt aroma of pale, grain and biscuit malts. Solid malt flavors coming from caramel, lightly roasted malts, pale malts and grain like malts. There seems to be a load of non-fermentable sweet and grainy malt sugars. The grain malts are so grainy there’s almost a husk grittiness left behind in the aftertaste. The maltiness actually seems to grow stronger as time passes. Hops are just barely noticeable and play a minor role.


 jcwattsrugger (5223), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/512/20
Nov 7, 2006  
on tap-pours an off white head that laces and gold/amber color. Aroma is mild medium malt. Taste is mild medium malt with hops bitterness. OK carbonation.


 jgd0608 (187), Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/510/20
Nov 5, 2006  
Pours copper, with a thick, fluffy tan head. Thin mouthfeel, quite bitter. Not bad, quite well balanced.



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