Left Hand Snow Bound Winter Ale

Bomber from College Liquors in Grand Junction, CO. I can’t believe I still have beers from that trip around. Pours a dark chestnut color with a medium off-white head. The aroma is mostly spices, especially cloves and nutmeg. The taste is similar; load of initial spiciness, some nutmeg, cloves, ginger, some citrus zest, and a decent malt background. Nice, but not an everyday beer, very spicy.

Reviewed 12/18/2008 (bottle): Pours a heavy brown colored body, with a big tan head, that is diminishing. An aroma of cookies or milk chocolate? Some kind of spice like saffron or ginger or something. Some other sweet spices are present too, and some vanilla can be detected. Some dark malts. Spicy taste, that same sweet ginger or some kind of spice present, maybe nutmeg? Some roasted malts, coffee is present too. Hides the alcohol well, not hot or alcoholy tasting. Somewhat creamy mouthfeel. Slightly bitter aftertaste. Very nice beer, very reminiscent of Christmas/Winter.

Pours a clear, dark, chestnut brown color. A frothy, beige colored head settles slowly to a thin film with a foamy, bubbly edge. Thin, jagged, spiderweb lacing marks the glass. The aroma is quite spicy, showing nutmeg, cinnamon, and cardamom amongst notes of dried dark fruits, cocoa and pumpkin. Flavors follow suit, winter spices and ginger overpowering the lightly sweet, fruity malt base. Earthy hops lend significant bitterness, but hints of stale cardboard certainly don’t help things. Weak bodied and overly carbonated, eve the mouthfeel is underwhelming. Disappointing.

Bottle from S&K Beverage in Plano, TX. Pours a clear deep brown-red with beige head. Aroma of ginger, cinnamon, malt, and fruit. Flavor has malt, is sweet, alcohol, fruit, ginger, cinnamon, clove, exactly what they say. Palate is medium-heavy body with med-high carbonation. Over all, the flavors where WAY too present, in my opinion, a little over done. I liked it and hated it.....But I wouldn’t mind having it again.....in a weird way, almost reminded me of eggnog. This was kinda tricky to rate, but it was like a good winter warmer dessert beer.

Pours a dark, nearly opaque, almost sable mahogany with a fine-bubbled, light tan head. Rich, malty aroma has an overtone of cloves and cinnamon and a hint of molasses. Flavor is malty and spicy, undertone of cloves and cinnamon, touch of sweetness and hint of licorice and cinnamon candy. Texture is very smooth, almost syrupy, and leaves a slightly sweet, slightly hoppy, cinnamony aftertaste.

Bottled in Dallas. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. The aroma is mostly coffee and a little honey in the end. The biggest flavours are get are more coffee and the HUGE ginger presence. The ginger overpowers everything else for me. Okay but obviously not well balanced or blended.

Very interesting. I rated it fairly high after drinking most of the bottle but it would have been very low if it had been after only one sip. I think of this drink less as a beer and more as a holiday alcoholic beverage to be enjoyed maybe once a season. Low carbonation, very sweet, and heavy on the honey although the cloves and ginger are fairly apparent as well.

22 oz. bottle poured a deep dark brown color with a thick heavy light tan head that kept a nice thin layer. aroma has cinnamon, nutmeg, faint ginger, and lightly sweet honey. mouth feel is a little light and light with low carbonation. the malt in the flavor is mild and there is plenty of spices including cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and mild ginger that i would not have recognized had it not been in the description. I am not sure if the body or the honey is throwing me off but this is hard to get into.