Left Hand Brewing

Wake Up dead

GOOD MORNING. YOU’VE WOKEN UP DEAD. YOU’RE IN RUINS.

But don’t be discouraged. Here’s a black ale to brighten your day. Wake Up Dead lurks in our cellars for over four months before being unleashed. Hints of raisins, black licorice, coffee and dark chocolate are followed by earthy, herbal hop notes. Any apprehensions about the rest of your day are quickly forgotten, for whatever the mind expected, it finds. Sometimes you’re not in the mood for what everyone else is having.

Best With: The roasted and burnt malt notes of stout and its typical hearty nature make it an exceptional compliment to raw or steamed oysters, however stout is also at home with most chocolate or cream based desserts.

ABV: 10.2%

Smokejumper Porter

Here’s to smoke in your glass, not in the woods

In Colorado we are blessed with abundant natural beauty. Smokejumpers are those fearless wildland firefighters who specialize in parachuting into the wilderness so that we can continue to enjoy it. Smokejumper Imperial Porter is a tribute to them – a twenty-one degree plato porter made with cold hand-smoked barley malt. Roasty brown in color, the long-lingering smokiness wraps around flavors of molasses, toasted malt and an earthy hoppiness. Here’s to smoke in your glass, not in the woods. Smokejumper – the official beer of The National Smokejumpers Association. www.smokejumpers.com.

ABV: 9.2%

Oktoberfest

This is no festivus for the restuvus

This is no festivus for the restuvus – on the contrary – we start brewing in the Spring and it takes a full two months to reach lagered perfection. Biscuity, malty goodness dominates upfront while the noble pedigree hops lend a properly spicy, dry finish. Zicke zacke, zicke zacke, hoi, hoi, hoi. Time to roast your chicken and upend your stein before the air gets crisp, the leaves flame and fall and the skies fade to black. Auf geht’s!

This beer is available each autumn in celebration of the great Bavarian festival season. Brewed in late spring and cellared throughout the summer, our Oktoberfest is produced through traditional methods as it has been for centuries in Germany, This copper-hued lager owes its rich malt flavor to a generous combination of select Vienna and Munich malts. Cool, open-fermentation develops a subtle elegance and drinkability suited to any festive occasion.

Milk Stout

2006 and 2008 World Beer Cup Gold Medal Winner in the Sweet Stout category. The September/October 2006 issue of Draft Magazine calls Milk Stout “quite possibly the stout in America.” TIME Magazine described Milk Stout as “malty, roasty goodness.”

Strong roasted malt and coffee flavors build the foundation of this classic cream stout. The addition of milk sugar mellows the intense roastiness and gives this beer the most incredible creamy mouth feel.

ABV: 5.25% IBU: 22

Milk Stout Nitro

Dark & delicious, America’s great milk stout will change your perception about what a stout can be. Pouring hard out of the bottle, Milk Stout Nitro cascades beautifully, building a tight, thick head like hard whipped cream. The aroma is of brown sugar and vanilla cream, with hints of roasted coffee. The pillowy head coats your upper lip and its creaminess entices your pallet. Initial roasty, mocha flavors rise up, with slight hop & roast bitterness in the finish. The rest is pure bliss of milk chocolate fullness.

ABV: 6%
IBUs: 25

400 Lb Monkey IPA

Why does the world need another IPA? Because this one ain’t like them others. Using hops of a different color, earthy and herbal, it’s well balanced by bready malt. The result? An English-style IPA that separates itself from the ubiquitous bunch. Cartloads of bitter monkeys flinging wasteful amounts of bananas into the jungle – we’re so done with that.

Initial malt sweetness followed by earthy, straw and herbal hop notes. Finishes dry with a pleasant lingering bitterness and distinctly British hop character.

ABV: 6.6%

Twins Sisters Double IPA

Named after the Twin Sisters peaks in nearby Rocky Mountain National Park, Twin Sisters Double IPA is a double IPA Left Hand-style – double the hops also means double the malt in our book. The sisters grab your nose up front with its sweet piney and citrusy aromas. An assertive attack of sharp, flinty hop flavors takes you from dreaming about wildflower honey to the tongue awakening earthy, bitter hop resins that swirl in to finish. Balanced with a robust, malty backbone, Twin Sisters is incredibly drinkable. Full bodied, orange copper in color, with 9.6% ABV and 87 IBU’s.

Best With: Pairs well with steak and herb butter, spicy Mexican food, salty foods like anchovies, spicy blue-cheese deviled eggs, and sharp and aged cheeses.

ABV: 9.6
IBUs: 87

Polestar Pilsner

A brilliant, refreshing lager; handcrafted using traditional methods & ingredients. A zesty, German-style pilsner with a dry, crisp finish. The hardest beer we make- there’s nowhere to hide!

“One of the best and most drinkable lagers in the U.S. today.” Beer Advocate Magazine, July 2007

ABV: 4.58% IBU: 33

Good Juju Ginger Ale

A little Juju Voodoo – Fresh ginger kisses the lithe, malty body, copulating with the hop in this pale ale ancestor.

Emancipate yourself from the dead of winter; none but the vernal equinox can free the light.

A refreshing frivolity. Hey Mon. Succha Fwangaa! Better a with doctor than a trouble maker. Quit yor’ bitchin’ and git to witchin’!

Picked by Esquire Magazine to be one of The World’s Healthiest Beers!

ABV: 4.5%
IBUs: 20

Warrior IPA

The vibrant aromatics and flavors that are derives from the use exuberant amounts of fresh flower hops are what helps create and set apart this most unique beer. While the addition of locally grown hops from the brewery’s own hop farm contributes to the bright floral hoppiness, the majority of the hop volume comes from the Warrior hops that are overnighted from Yakima, WA. Yet true to the brewery’s fundamental belief system, the strong hop character is balanced by a strong malt foundation, allowing for an approachable, drinkable IPA that finishes amazingly clean. Get it while it lasts!

ABV: 6.6% IBU: 60

Sawtooth Ale

“Our #1 Bitter,” The New York Times

Our flagship beer. This amber ale is the perfect blend of malt and hops. Opens with nutty, caramel flavors followed by the herbal earthiness of hops. A great session beer; pairs with an endless array of entrees.

ABV: 4.48% IBU: 27

Widdershins Barleywine

Counter clockwise to the traditional American barleywines, we designed this beer to be rounder and smoother than some less refined versions. Full of carmel and malt flavors, yet balanced with a variety of different hop varieties, all vying for your attention. Oak aging andf sparing use of specialty malt add complexity to this already deep beer. Pairs well with cerebral, after-dinner conversation.

ABV: 9.1%
IBUs: 70

Fade To Black

One-hundred thirty-four days of blackness. Three thousand, two hundred and sixteen hours before the clocks are switched again. Welcome to Fade to Black. That time of year when the day seems to fade away. Drifting further into the darkness with each passing day.

And welcome to Fade to Black, a new seasonal beer already fraught with controversy. Is it a Winter Beer, a Christmas beer, a Holiday beer, what exactly is it? Does it have spices? Is it a dark beer? What style is it?

Fade to Black ties into that time of year when we fall backwards an hour, this year from November 1st until March 14th. Creatively brewed to pair with shorter, darker days, Fade to Black is a Foreign Stout that pours black with notes of licorice, espresso beans, molasses, and black cardamom notes. Its 8.5% ABV gives way to a feeling of self loathing, burnt opportunities and smoked relationships. And like “some late visitor entreating entrance at your chamber door”, six different malts and two different hop varieties create the “darkness there, and nothing more.”

And as we eventually creep back to brighter days, leaving the shadowy hours behind, so too, will this year’s Fade to Black be gone. For each and every year the style will change, but the name will remain the same. So, for this year’s Foreign Stout, to quoth the brewer, “Nevermore”.

Best With: The roasted and burnt malt notes of stout and its typical hearty nature make it an exceptional compliment to raw or steamed oysters, however stout is also at home with most chocolate or cream based desserts.

ABV: 8.5%

Left Hand Mountain Mixer Variety Pack

Try four of our award-winning styles in a convenient variety pack! Sawtooth Ale, our flagship beer, is always in the mix. The other three styles change every time it’s packaged.