Left Hand Brewing Company Travelin' Light

Travelin' Light

 

Left Hand Brewing Company in Longmont, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Kölsch Regular
Score
6.36
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 22 Ticks: 32
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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can. Gold in color with a medium sized head. Aroma is straw and grains. Taste is grains, straw and is well balanced.
Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2025 at 05:02

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can. Golden beer with a white head. Mineral and grass aroma with light lemon. Malt and light grass flavor with light lemon. Medium bodied. Malt and light grass linger with light lemon.
Tried from Can on 25 Apr 2020 at 17:49

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
12 oz can received as a Christmas gift from my wife. The pour is clear golden with a foamy 1/2 inch white head that leaves behind decent lace. The aroma is corn grain, a bit of floral hay and grass. The taste is the floral hay up front, with the grain malt, with a bit of the corn of the nose towards the back. The palate is light bodied, active carbonation and a clean finish. Decent.
Tried from Can on 09 Feb 2020 at 15:54

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
12 ounce can into signature pint glass, canned on 9/9/2017. Pours fairly hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of lemon, cracker, white bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of peach, pear, red apple, herbal, floral, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. A bit too fruity aromas, but not overwhelming. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, cracker, white bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of peach, pear, red apple, herbal, floral, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, cracker, white bread dough, toasted biscuit, peach, pear, red apple, herbal, floral, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness, and balance of pale malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and carbonation. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth and moderately bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a delicious kolsch, All around nice robustness, and balance of pale malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth, refreshing, and fairly crisp/clean to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Great clean Pale/Vienna malt showcase, balancing earthy hops, and restrained fruity yeast. Mild residual sweetness with crisp drying. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example. Held up nicely for the age of the can. I've had worse.
Tried from Can on 29 Jul 2019 at 21:05

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
12oz can. Filtered orange-tan body. Big, foamy, white head. Pretty straightforward. not really authentic tasting, American Kolsch. Cleanish golden malt tones, mild noble hops. After drinking in Germany a few weeks, a lot of thin American beers don't quite cut it. Medium bodied, drinkable, just not a prime example.
Tried from Can on 23 Oct 2018 at 03:45

4.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
On tap. Very light and clear yellow hay color. VERY light pale malts and very low hop component. I understand these are supoooade to be light but jeeze... not much here
Tried from Draft on 14 Oct 2018 at 23:50

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4
Honestly okes this was too light. Faint grassy aroma. Light, too light taste a little bit of malt. Thin end of tongue finish.
Tried on 25 Aug 2018 at 03:22

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
From a 12 oz. can. Pours a clear gold with an off white head. Aroma of bread dough. Flavors are sweet malts with a smooth crisp finish.
Tried from Can on 22 Jul 2018 at 22:26

5.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can as pictured. Pours like a ubiquitous pale lager. Clean fresh hay and mild metallic note aroma. Yes, like many euro versions, reminds me a little of goff or straub. Good co2. slight aged lager feel on the finish. Went down fairly easy. A little refreshing. As expected.
Tried from Can on 04 Apr 2018 at 20:35

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
No price on this can from Beer Run. The check-out lady told me it was one of only a few beers she liked, so this must be good... right? Pours golden with an inch of white head. Aroma is cracker, grass, wheat. Flavor is sweet grass, sweet wheat, cracker, hint of chardonnay finish. Bland, unmemorable, but that's not saying it's bad.
Tried from Can on 31 Mar 2018 at 00:32