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Left Hand Brewing Company

United States · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of stylesWebsite
★ Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Founded in 1993 in Longmont, Colorado. The Milk Stout Nitro — poured like a Guinness from its nitrogen-charged bottle — became one of the most innovative American craft beers of the 2010s. Employee-owned and fiercely independent. One of Colorado's most decorated breweries.

30Beers
9Styles
7.8%Avg ABV
1993Founded

Beers by Left Hand Brewing Company

30 beers
25+one
25+one
Imperial Stout · 14.5%
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Candy Cane Nitro
Candy Cane Nitro
Imperial Stout · 9.5%
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Fade to Black
Fade to Black
Foreign Extra Stout · 8.5%
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Left Hand Sawtooth Ale
Left Hand Sawtooth Ale
American Amber Ale · 5.3%
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Sawtooth
Sawtooth
Amber Ale · 5.3%
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Wake Up Dead
Wake Up Dead
Imperial Stout · 10.2%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Left Hand Brewing Company brew a broad range across 9 style families.

Signature · 30 beers
Stout 15IPA 3Lager 3Belgian 2Pale Ale 2Amber 2Strong 1Porter 1Dark 1

Across these 30 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

smooth
22 of 30 beers
chocolate
16 of 30 beers
roasted
17 of 30 beers
rich
17 of 30 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:

typical for similar stylesLeft Hand Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
bitter
in 6 of 30 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably less bitter than typical.
spicy
in 11 of 30 · typical similar styles brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more spicy than typical.
How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 30%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
1 / 3
beers above the median
#682
best ranked beer
Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro

Their beers place in the Top 30% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Left Hand Brewing Company

Founded in 1993 in Longmont, Colorado. The Milk Stout Nitro — poured like a Guinness from its nitrogen-charged bottle — became one of the most innovative American craft beers of the 2010s. Employee-owned and fiercely independent. One of Colorado's most decorated breweries.

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Location
Longmont · Colorado · United States
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