Left Hand Snow Bound Winter Ale

Formerly brewed at Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Longmont, Colorado USA

Bottle. Nose smells like cinamon, pumpkin, and allspice. Taste-ginger, pumpkin, cinnamon, clove. This tastes just like gingersnaps. Quite nice.

love the way this beer smells with high dark fruits, holiday spices and dark honey, looks decent wit ha transparent red brown color, taste sweet and strong. great for the winter, hench the name

Bottle
Dark, reddish brown with disappearing head. Cinnamon, cardamom and liquorice aroma, maybe some chocolate as well. Many spices in the flavour, a bit too many. The taste of alcohol shows up in the finish. Never been a fan of spice beers, still isn’t.

Tasted 10/28/07. 22oz bomber. Filtered with a lively pour. Ruby hue. Spicy holiday aromas. Three fingers of off-white head. Nutty, almost juniper aromas. Caramel. Fresh with a mild burn. Full bodied with a good caramel malt backbone. Cinnamon and spicy piney resinous flavors. Cocoa and coffee acidity. Red fruity notes. Young and piney. Delicious.

Diminishing head. Piney, spiced aroma with ginger, cinnamon. Taste is a spice bomb, overpowering any subtle malt or hop characteristics. Tons of ginger, perky and spicy. Mellow, malty and lemony finish.

Bottle. Pours deep red brown with a beige head. Sweet malty aroma, with ginger bread and clove. The flavor is sweet malty and spicy, with cinnamon and ginger. Moderate bitterness in the finish.

Bomber. Definite spice in the nose. Nutmeg, cinnamon and orange zest are all evident. Similar to Great Lakes Christmas in that way. However, there is something that I am not overly enamored with in the aroma; perhaps it is that after enjoying many brews this holiday season with similar aromas, that I have tired of it. Very dark body whose red hues and clarity can only be seen when held up to light. Large tan head that is lasting, with excellent lace. Plentiful visible carbonation. Initial mouthfeel is strong; tastes like it smells. The alcohol initially is borderline harsh. Plenty sweet, although not cloyingly so. I wish I had a Lakefront Holiday Spice to do a side-by-side with. This brew had many similar qualities but just doesn’t come together as well. I can’t really isolate a reason for it. In a holiday beer, I look for either warming qualities or spices and with this brew you get both. Tastes considerably more alcoholic than Corsendonk Christmas Ale, even though that brew is nearly a full percent higher in ABV. It comes down to the fact that Snow Bound just isn’t as delightful as Lakefront Holiday Spice. It’s not quite sweet or fruity enough to balance the harsh alcoholic bite. It’s a pretty decent brew nonetheless and it’s 75% style percentile is about right.

pours out dark red. smells like cinnamon, and other spicy sweet things. taste is really sweet and almost like drinking a cinnamon bun. alcohol isnt present until you have drank the whole bottle and the buzz is quite evident. as wilkie said, this may be better had they used their right hand. something i would want to try again, but certainly not my favorite of this generally misunderstood category.