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Left Hand: 400 Pound Monkey

This traditional IPA is/was brewed by Left Hand in Longmont, Colorado, USA. It's achieved an overall score of 63.16%. Based on 1 tasting, the average ABV is 6.80%.

Historical Community Tasting Notes

Preserved from the RateBeer community archive (circa 2000–2018)

Bottle, mybrewerytap.com. Pale amber beer, with a sweet toffee aroma and flavour. Reminiscent of fairground toffee apples and a bit thin on the palate. Warming alcohol, reasonably sharp and bitter on the tongue, but the aftertaste is bittersweet. Honestly think this is very unbalanced and, whilst smooth on the tongue, has a harsh finish. Disappoint
Draught @ Pikkulintu, Helsinki Pours orange with a sticky foamy hed. Aroma has notes of sweetness, malts and fruity hops. Taste is quite sweet and malty with notes of fruits and hops. Some glue notes as well. Smooth, slightly bitter finish. Okay, quite malty and sweet IPA.
Tap. Slightly hazy golden with small off-white head. Flavour is malt, fruit, little caramel, hops, bitter, little peach, little pine, little crass and some citrus.

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Beer Listing

Date and Time Container Pub/Place and Where Strength ABV Colour Score Components Score Descriptive word(s) Book No.
4th Sep 2010 at 8:20 pm draft In de Wildeman, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands 6.80 medium-golden Taste: 94.12%
Head: 88.89%
Aroma: 80%
Ease: 66.67%
Clarity: 100%
 63.158% scenty 359

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Other Beers (etc.) by Left Hand

Apart from 400 Pound Monkey, Hop Horizons lists 17 others by Left Hand. These are:
Beer Week Sauce Porter
Black Jack Porter
Chainsaw Ale (Double Sawtooth)
Extrovert IPA
Fade to Black (Volume 1 - Foreign Export Stout)
Hard Wired Nitro Coffee Porter
Imperial Stout
Introvert IPA
Juju Ginger (Good Juju)
Milk Stout (5.2% version)
Milk Stout (6% version)
Nitro Milk Stout (6% version)
Polestar Pilsner
Sawtooth Ale
Strangers American Pale Ale
Wake Up Dead Nitro
Widdershins Oak Aged Barleywine Ale

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