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400 Pound Monkey
Left Hand Brewing Company
- From:
- Left Hand Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- English IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- 81
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 15.36%
- Reviews:
- 556
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 22, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 03, 2008
- Wants:
- 73
- Gots:
- 440
No description / notes.
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Ratings by afinepilsner:
Reviewed by afinepilsner from Iowa
3.68/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.68/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12oz brown bottle
400 Pound Monkey was a hazy golden amber color. It had a short white head with good retention and lacing. The smell was a good balance of sweet malt and English hops. The taste was hop dominant with a nice bitterness and dry finish. It was medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Drinkability was good. This was a good beer and worth a try.
Sep 30, 2010400 Pound Monkey was a hazy golden amber color. It had a short white head with good retention and lacing. The smell was a good balance of sweet malt and English hops. The taste was hop dominant with a nice bitterness and dry finish. It was medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Drinkability was good. This was a good beer and worth a try.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.75/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
On tap at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Hazy deep golden to orange colour, large to moderate white head. Strong sweetish aroma and flavour of crystal malts + fruity and piney American hops, notes of oranges. A quite good IPA.
Jun 22, 2022Reviewed by maddogruss from New Jersey
3.56/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Had this on draft.
A: pours golden, amber body with small white head with ok retention and lacing
S: sweet, sweet toffee and subtle grapefruit notes; pretty solid smelling beer
T: sweet, toffee, grapefruit tasting beer; subtle, slight earthy aftertaste
M: medium bodied and pretty smooth; nice drinking beer overall
D: nice mouthfeel and taste combo; solid drinking beer overall; nice beer
Nov 18, 2020A: pours golden, amber body with small white head with ok retention and lacing
S: sweet, sweet toffee and subtle grapefruit notes; pretty solid smelling beer
T: sweet, toffee, grapefruit tasting beer; subtle, slight earthy aftertaste
M: medium bodied and pretty smooth; nice drinking beer overall
D: nice mouthfeel and taste combo; solid drinking beer overall; nice beer
Reviewed by mothmanscott from Georgia
3.68/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
From notes 1/13/14: Pours a near-clear orange honey gold with a single finger of beige, moderately lasting and variously bubbled head that leaves only a speckling of lace as it recedes. Aroma is light for the style, more like a sweet pale ale. With that said it is a well-balanced brew of sweet caramel malt, floral, herbal and resinous hops. Taste is similar with the addition of Citrus hop notes, but the sweet malt is less balanced with the hops than in the nose, the malt becoming more dominant. However, the hop bitterness is nicely represented at mid-sip increasing through the finish into aftertaste though flavors are muted.
Dec 17, 2017Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.91/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This was poured into an English pint glass. The appearance was a moderately hazy burnt orange color. Lighter colored hues of almost transparent burnt yellow grace along the sides if the glass. The head was about a finger’s worth of white foaminess. After dissipation, moderate sticky lacing eventually slides into the beer. The smell starts off with a sweet biscuity to breadiness rolling into a sly little bit of a grassy spicy hops. Gets slightly earthy as well. Soapiness of a normal English IPA is there yet tame. The taste was moderately sweet. Low rolling earthy to semi-spicy hops slide into the aftertaste and into the finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionable sweet to spicy feel slyly rolling over a nice low key carbonation. Overall, for an English IPA, its extremely well done. Hats off to Left Hand for pulling this one off. Pass the fish n’chips!
Jun 17, 2017Reviewed by q33jeff from New Jersey
2.88/5 rDev -19.6%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
2.88/5 rDev -19.6%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
**
11/29/2013
LOOK: deep gold colour
AROMA: is grains, rice, hops.
TASTE: is hoppy...vinegar, some floral. Bitter finish.
FEEL: Drinks easy., clear. Good carbonation.
Not bad.
**
Nov 19, 201611/29/2013
LOOK: deep gold colour
AROMA: is grains, rice, hops.
TASTE: is hoppy...vinegar, some floral. Bitter finish.
FEEL: Drinks easy., clear. Good carbonation.
Not bad.
**
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