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Left Hand Sawtooth Ale 3.21 664

Left Hand Sawtooth Ale

Percentile
67
overall

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6643.21/5.03.21/5.04.75%73.4English pint
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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swedishfish (29), Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Apr 18, 2007  
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.


 carboloader (321), Houston, Texas, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Apr 15, 2007  
Pours transparent amber, medium sized head, much lacing. More malt than expected (But I drink mostly IPAs). It’s OK, not spectacular.


 Thaichile (599), 10aFly, New Jersey, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Apr 15, 2007  
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.


 zombywoof (362), Shawnee, Kansas, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Apr 11, 2007  
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.


 WISEGUY572 (1246), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/56/103/513/20
Apr 8, 2007  
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.


 BDR (2168), Roseville, Minnesota, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Apr 7, 2007  
On tap at Burrito Loco. Nice amber color with lots of carbonation. Nice hop flavor with an earthy tinge.


 Sincere (145), wichita, Kansas, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/102/510/20
Apr 6, 2007  
12 oz bottle pours a beautiful clear amber with active carbonation and a thin head of micro bubbles that lasts a while and leaves decent lacing. The nose contains a hint of honey and dough. The taste starts off with a hopped up twang and fades into a slight lemon and grass combo. There’s a slightly metallic aftertaste that is accompanied by a very dry and bitter palate that fits the style but not my preference. Slightly unbalanced but still a decent brew.


 jzzbassman (850), New Albany, Mississippi, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/102/514/20
Apr 6, 2007  
Very piney aroma, this one shines as it warms. Very nice session beer, with nothing standing out, but nothing to complain about....the epitome of balance. Where it falls apart is the bitterness could have been better on the end, to keep the finish cleaner.



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