Great Lakes Brewing Devil’s Pale Ale 666

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing (Ontario)
Style: American Pale Ale
Etobicoke, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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On Tap are the victory cafe. pale ale eh? not sure i understand that, but whatever. nice nuttiness to it, slight sweetnes, and a nice bitter finish, nice beer. good seasonal

on tap at Joes, decent session beer. more malts on the nose, more of a brown ale by looks then ipa but ohh well. Good beer dry hops almost a nutty bitter flavour. decent beer.

On draught at The Victory Café - deep, dark brown, with a medium but quickly dissipating white head. Uhm...pale ale? There’s nothing pale about this. Also, Ratebeer has this classified here as an IPA, but I don’t get that at all, either from the aroma or the flavour. It just isn’t. A pale ale, sure, but this is not a hop-heavy brew. The scent is sweetly malty, quite fruity actually with some nuttiness in the background...bready even. I don’t think I’ve ever had a pale ale that smelt like this before. The flavour has this same nutty, malty, slight (unidentifiably) fruity taste. This is much more like a brown ale than an IPA and I have no idea why it’s being called one. As a uniquely flavourful brown ale, this is a good one, quite sessionable and interesting - much different in both aroma and taste from any other pale ale or brown ale I’ve had. But hops play only a minor role in this brew, and for this reason I would say it fails as an India Pale Ale.

Draught. Nice dark brew, fairly thick and syrupy malts, a bit nutty. Hides the alcohol well. A bit one-dimensional with its caramelly sweetness...I might have gone right ahead and made it 6.7kg of hops.

UPDATED: DEC 29, 2006 Growler filled fresh from a tap at the brewery. Poured a deep copper-red with a tight sticky tan colored cap...looks like a Marzen! Aroma is very interesting...some dried fruits, caramel, bready, wet hay, some mustiness..you can smell a good mix of malt types in this brew...very nice Rich malt spine,... medium bodied,... thick silky mouth feel,...malty rounded charcater. Up front you chew into a good dose of lushious malts, then hops, yeast phenols and malt mix collide mid palate and some decent layered complexity is released...dried fruits,nuts, cocoa, treacle, toasted rye, citrus, birchwood...great taste...finishes wet where the toasted-caramel tastes congeal and the herbal/medicinal bittering hops finally show up to mix with the burnt husk astringency of the black patent malts. Very unique as an ale...defies style stereotyping...but I enjoyed it because it has some of the great rich malty-toasty complex tastes of a bock and a bock’s well rounded drinkability. Very nicely done, I enjoyed this thick rich bock-like ale and hope to see it next year..

Draught @ beerbistro: Snagged this one as Dayna’s Beer of the Moment at beerbistro tonight. It’ll catch you by surprise as a very dark IPA with a robust, foamy head with good retention. Flavour is good; I caught a very nice sweetness, tastes almost like cherries and a light rum, with a decent hoppiness in the back. I’m not sure I’d call this an IPA, but who am I to argue with ratebeer? All told an enjoyable brew I could certainly try again.

Plain in flavour, veyr dark, with many bubbles. Great foam with strong taste and after a while can be tiring.

Upon first sniff there is a hint of sweetness. This is the shy start to something beautiful... understated sweet nose with just the faintest hint of what is to come... I had a 5 oz serving as part of a three beer sampler at Volo (on tap of course) It poured a dark rich amber colour with a slightly off white head that persisted throughout the entire sample. It presented lacing worthy of a drunken spider in a fishing net factory. The sweet hints in the scent gave way to a robust roasted flavour with just a hint of a citrusy zest finishing with the sweet aftertaste. All in all an enjoyable beer.

Like a brown or scotch with molasses and licorice in nose. Lots of lace. On tap at Volo. Dry, with the above flavours plus caramel and hops kick into the finish. Dry in the aftertaste.

On tap at Volo. Deep dark brown, small murky creamy tan head. Mild nose - some malt and a few hops - pretty disappointing. Taste: good. Nutty malt with a few hops in the finish. Slightly watery mouthfeel. More light nut brown or assertive dark lager than IPA, as an IPA is a failure; as a very drinkable and tasty (it grows on you) session pint it is good - like a beefed up version of the Black Jack, which I enjoy. Good effort guys, kudos on the change in styles for you.