Left Hand Brewing Jackman's American Pale Ale

The Left Hand Brewing Company is in Longmont, Colorado by the St.Vrain River. This is their 5.2% ABV American Pale Ale.

The beer pours a very light copper in color and is slightly cloudy in appearance.  It has a light floral smell balanced by a caramel baked good malt aroma.  While it does have some light floral and fruit hop flavors, they are a bit overbalanced by the malt.  While there is not actually rye in this beer, it has that sharp rye/pumpernickel flavor that some malts impart.  The 400 Pound Monkey overwhelmingly had the sharp rye flavor.  Now, I like rye, but the 400 pound monkey tasted like vomit to me.