Great Lakes Lake Erie Monster Double IPA

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Cleveland, Ohio USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

This monster pours a amber color with a finger sized head. Lacing is everywhere on this one. Not a section of my glass didn’t have some kind of lacing on it. The smell was pretty damn nice. Very sweet malt aroma which I wasn’t expecting. Grapefruit and citrus. Alcohol is very present and it just says that I’m not a beer to mess around with. This is a very malt forward Double IPA. I thought it was a good mixture of a East Coast and West Coast Double IPA. While the malt is pretty big in the taste, the hops come through big too. It’s a very fruit taste. Grapefruit, citrus, melon, and slight grassy. The only thing that might of gotten in the way slightly was the alcohol taste. While not overbearing, it was still a little to noticeable in my mind. If they somehow hid the alcohol just a little bit more this would be just killer. The mouthfeel was thick, nicely carbonated, oily, and juicy. It’s so hoppy at times I felt the same way I did with Pliny the Younger. Felt like the enamel was coming off your teeth.

Bottle. 12 oz. Split with Dallas. Had this before with Vinnie, but apparently did not rate it. Pours a honey golden with an off-white, fine wispy head. Lacing is minimal, leaving a lacy ring around the edge of the glass. Aroma of apple juice, caramel, honey, and pears. Some subtle savory onion as well. Flavor is dominated by the apple juice with a bit of hop resin and juiciness in the finish. Medium bodied and bittersweet finish. Excellent double IPA.

Bottle split with pat. Pours a clear light amber with a nice white head. Aroma is Apple juicy with some sweet hops. Taste is light and sweet, not exactly bitter. Finishes clean and doesn’t linger. Nice surprise.

pours gold and slightly hazy. nice level of sweetness to complement the hoppy bite. a solid knock you on your butt double IPA. sipped 2 of these and i was done for the night.

Bottle.... It pours clear golden with a small white head... the aroma is hops and melon.... the flavor is caramel, sweet, hops... and some alcohol.... nice creamy full bodied mouthfeel .... alcohol is well hidden...

Bottle provided by bulldogp04. Thanks! Pours clear deep golden with a medium white head. The aroma is highly fruity with notes of peach, mango, citrus, light passion fruit and sweet caramel. The flavour is light alcoholic with notes of sweet caramel, ripe peaches, and ripe oranges. Long fruity finish.

Clean orange, tall white head, served in a tulip glass at Firkin in Libertyville, IL. Aroma has a mild grapefruit, mild caramel, light pine note and some floral hops late. Flavor is a smooth sweet caramel malt base with mild pine, grapefruit and orange notes, mild alcohol late. Very heavy on hops but in a well balanced. Body is heavy and very sticky with mild carbonation and light lacing. Overall a very well balance beer with sweetness and hoppiness in good balance. Light tropical fruit at the very end in the taste.

Bottle. Pours a orange with a nice white head.spruce, herbs, light sweetness, medium bitterness, medium body, thin feel, oily feel, average carbonation. Pretty good four pack went fast.