Left Hand Deep Cover Brown Ale

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Brown Ale
Longmont, Colorado USA

Bottled on 04-23-07. Clear, dark brown-red with small head that tries to last. Mild aroma is sweet roasted walnut and sourish fruit. Flavor is also mild: some slightly sweet and nutty malt, faint sour cherries, and a drying earthy yeast. Palate is slightly watery, acidic-tingly, and has a chalky-dry finish. I guess it is in the UK style, but I favor the browns that have stepped outside of that tradition.

Pours a nice reddish brown. Aromas of toasty malts, brown sugar, and nuts. Flavor is lightly sweet malts and a nice touch of hops, and a nutty finish.

Appealing to the eye with a dark amber, almost walnut color and an off-white head. Did not distinguish anything in the aroma. Perhaps the old nose wasn't working well. Flavor was slightly effervescent but decent.

weak, smells like bad tap water, malts a touch weak but it has a touch of coffee after-taste. not much else.

Pretty decent brown ale, seems to be going for a hybrid of the slightly hopped American style and a more traditional English version. Very faint aroma, with some caramel detectable. Trace of nutty flavors and a slight sharp hop presence in the brew. But overall it’s pretty anonymous.

Clear copper, light head. Toasty malt aroma. Taste is dark, nutty, with molassis hints. Mouthfeel a little thin, bitter nutty finish. Suprisingly good for a brown ale.

12z bottle. Deep amber hue with a tan head that quickly dissipated. Light roasted malts and slight caramel aroma. Smooth and creamy in the mouth with a chocolate cake note. "It is light bodied and slightly sweet", this is too true. But, at least they don’t claim it to be something it’s not! I think that, for what it is, it’ll do on a hot STL summer day when you need something with a lil more malt kick.

This beer was one of the 12 beers featured in a beer tasting event I hosted back in April. The avg. rating among the 10 participants was 7.1 out of 10 (my rating was a 7 out of 10). Not having started rating beers using the ratebeer method and scale at that point, I just had another opportunity to do so. Heavy malt and moderate hop aroma. Avg. sized, creamy, off-white head which mostly diminishes. Murky, reddish-brown body. Flavor is heavy malt in the initial moutfeel with moderate bitter notes becoming apparent as it warms. Long in duration, medium to full bodied. Very tasty.