Great Lakes Burning River Pale Ale

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Cleveland, Ohio USA

12oz bottle. Aroma has notes of hay, barnyard, and caramel malts. Medium amber red hue with an smaller off-white head that mostly diminished and left little lace. Flavor is more of the same barnyard and caramel malt. Decent bitters on the finish. Palate is light-medium and soft. Average finish. Pretty shitty IPA and definitely over rated. Great Lakes should be ashamed by releasing such swill.

Slightly overrated in my opinion. A good beer though with a nice mix of citrus and piney hops and a mild bitter aftertaste. Nothing spectacular. Fits any average occasion, like lunch or dinner.

Poured a nice copper/amber color with generous white head that stayed a while. Aroma was of citrusy hops. Flavor was a blend of floral, citrusy, piney hops. Pleasant bitterness to it. Mouthfeel is smooth. Decent lacing on glass. I enjoyed.

12 oz bottle. (bb 07/08/08). Copper-orange with just a film of head. Lots of cascade in the aroma, with some sweet (caramel) malt underneath. The taste is surprisingly restrained; the powerful aroma led me to believe that I’d be knocked over by the hops in the beer. (Dry-hopped?) Citrus and floral hops, thinnish sweet malt, and a lovely, lingering bitter finish. Nice beer.

This beer pours a shiny orange body with a large head in the beginning that eventually diminishes. It has a really nice hop aroma, with pine notes and toffee. Creamy mouthfeel with grapefruit, earth and fresh hops on the palate.

12oz pour to a fluffy, pure white head that laces and is quite sticky. Nice nose of fresh hops. It has a whiff of Centennial but doesn’t over power the cascades. Nice and citrusy but the beer retains enough body to not make you wince. Well done, well balanced APA. Nice crystal clear burnt orange color too. I would love this for a APA session beer. Had to buy this in Ohio, not sold here in southeastern Pa. Damn shame because it would be a staple in my fridge.

I think this beer would be fantastic fresh or on draft, but I think the bottle I drank had some age on it. The aroma was citrusy, with a strong metallic note and a bready character that made it seem a bit older somehow (stale bread?). Amber in color, clear with a nice 2-finger thick head. Flavor has a decidedly bready flavor which pushes the hop flavors back quite a bit. The hops had a sneaky citrus/pine touch but it was just too light for my tastes. Honestly thought this was a pale ale.

Bottle - Thanks to Sune. Clear golden - white head. Sulfor, roasted, let knækbrød, hoppy aroma, light malty, citric, diacetyl, light metallic. Did it get light.... or what ??