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Fade to Black

Published March 2011, Volume 32, Number 1

Left Hand Brewing Co.
Longmont, CO

Available: CO, AZ, NM, TX, NE, OK, KS, KY, IN, OH, MI, WI, MN, MO, IL, RI, MA, NJ, PA, VA, NY, AK, WA, AL, FL, TN, GA, NC

Fade to Black was inspired by Pillage & Burn, the 2009 collaboration between Left Hand and Nørrebro Bryghus, that was brewed and sold in Denmark exclusively. The malt is smoked over wood from a 100-year old hackberry tree from the head brewer’s family homestead in Nebraska.

ABV: 7.8
ABW: 6.156
Color: Black
Bitterness: 35
Original gravity: 1072

  • Charles Finkel

    That Old Black Magic! Here is a sensual beer, sexy and luscious. Deepest, darkest chocolate color at the edges. Fluffy tan head of tiny bubbles. Comforting and creamy, a balance of roasted cereal spiced just right! We lusted over it with fresh Alaska king crab broiled in butter.

  • Charlie Papazian

    Cocoa roast with a cool flick of smoke. Dense head and obscuring blackness defines visual deliciousness. Sweet philosophical body swishes and flavor swirls of roast blackness, equilibrating with caramel malts and a sentimental bite of hops. Curiously finishes with a deranged diminutive hop bitterness, cleansed with astringent touch of black malt. Intriguing and very addictive. Worth seeking for contemplative drinking. Fantasmic.

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