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Left Hand Sawtooth Ale

Left Hand Sawtooth Ale

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A Premium Bitter/ESB brewed by
Left Hand Brewing Co.

Longmont, Colorado USA

bottled
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on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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5163.22/5.03.21/5.04.75%62.8 English pint P  Stats

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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 voota (754), Melbourne, Australia
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/513/20

May 9, 2008  
Hazy copper with a pretty small tan head. Really earthy, dry toffee aroma. Some custard, pears too. Nice malty body belies the alcohol strength, a bit salty in the mouthful. Dry, fruity flavour, has lots of those earth tones you can only find in fuggles, it works really well. Toffee flavours and a slight hint of sweetness hit near the finish, which is otherwise fairly quick. A good beer, but I dont think I could drink too much of it for some reason.

MartiniFiend (70), Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/514/20
Jul 26, 2008  
Bottle. Dark copper with a medium head.Hop and fruit aroma. Thick to the palate. flavor is a hop start fruit middle and a bitter finish.


 502Flavors (188), Kentucky, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Jul 25, 2008  
Dark clear amber pour with a good off-white head. Aroma is mostly sweet amber malt – pretty full aroma – just not very complex. The flavor is thin but sweet – amber malt with a slightly bitter hop finish. Medium to light bodied on the palate without much carbonation. Overall: good, but, on the whole, pretty simple.


scooterc (13), Houston, Texas, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/105/57/103/512/20
Jul 21, 2008  
No real aroma to speak of. Beautiful copper color. Slight hops - not for hop heads. Very sessionable.


 Juancho (183), New York, New York, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/515/20
Jul 21, 2008  
Bomber - Good session beer. Pours amber with a thin whispy white head. It has just enough hops to balance the malt.


 zeke626 (194), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Jul 20, 2008  
Bottle. Amber body with thin off white head. All I get is caramel malts on the nose along with maybe some nuts. Taste is caramel malts with a hint of nuts and hops. Short, bitter bite in the finish. Nice and drinkable.




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