Left Hand SmokeJumper

Bottled. A dark brown beer with a brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of smoke and chocolate. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of roasted malt, some smoke, from beech wood, as well as some chocolate, leaiding to a dry bitter and roasted finish.

Big thanks to BBB63, Secret Santa in July for this one. Smells of alcohol and bread. Pours black with a small tanned head. Quite sweet with heavy grainy aromas. Also a bit of toasted grains. Smoke with a hint of salami. Medium to full bodied with a slightly sticky mouthfeel. Soft carbonation. Simply incredible palate. I like the sweetness that is very well balanced with the smoke. Nice and unpretetnitous complexity.

bottle. black with thin tan head. smokey, meat, coffee aroma. smooth. mild chocolate and coffee. This beer is dominated by smoke. The balance is good and the smoke is enjoyable. Not much else to it.

Clearish, dark brown coloured. Light off-white film slowly diminishes. Rye-like, heavy, almost roasty, nutty nose. A powerful nose for a powerful beer and an interesting monster at that. When Left Hand tries hard, what they can do is truly impressive. Solid sweet maltiness procures notes reminiscent of hazelnut and caramel whereas the secondary flavours verge toward almond, roast, chocolate and spicey rye notes. Thick bodied, medium carbonation. Sweet ice cream, vanilla and leather finish. Relatively complex and varying flavour range. Pretty good beer though not that smoky and peaty more than rauchy.

750 2006 vintage Montreal tasting. Pours black with a 1 finger light brown head. Super smoky nose, peaty, with some mega knock you on your ass pow. Taste is smoky roasty, with a lot kick, this is a damn grade A smoked.

In short: Top-of-the-class Smoked Imperial Porter
How: Mtl-crew beer-and-spagatt tasting. Bottle from I-don’t-remember-who.
The look: Black body with a very small beige head
In long: Medium intensity smoke. Creamy body with a chocolate cake feeling. Dry cacao and coffee beans. Light astringency touch in the finish. Up there with the Calumet Grand Chef on top of the Smoked Porters mountain. Very tasty but never aggressive. The nicest smoked porter since that cool pot-smoking Jamaican that was carrying my luggage.

220z bottle: Pours a very dark brown with a notable tan head. The aroma is pure roast with hints of coffee and molasses. The flavor follows the aroma The palate is well matched to the style with a nice soft coating. This overall character of the beer is very enjoyable. Cheers to Left Hand!

The pour from the caged and corked 750ml bottle is deep brown to black in color, the head a nice chocolate brown, as it erodes, and the lace forms a thick and glutinous curtain that obscures the glass. Start has a rich deep burnt grain aroma, hints of hops and malt, a bit of smokiness also present, Top is light to moderate in feel, and the finish has a good hop presence with a pleasant acidity, fairly dry and a nice Porter overall.