Great Lakes Nosferatu

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

12 oz bottle from West Lake View Liquors. The owner put it on sale b/c its been sitting around for to many months. Its was still worth a try to me. Pours an amber orange with a tall head. Aroma of malt, citrus, hops, and bready. Malt flavors, carmel, toffee, bready, a little citrus. I guess it is supposed to be hoppier, but I really enjoyed it. I am surprised to see the alcohol so high, very well hidden. A nice offering from GLBC.

sampled from a 12oz bottle. not sure how fresh this bottle but i believe this was from a new batch just released. the reason for mentioning that is i found this to not be nearly as hoppy as i remember it. a very balanced nuts and caramel in both nose and flavor. alcohol was very well hidden. and hops are pretty subdued. a decent ASA but i thought i liked this a lot more before............................................ sampled an aged bottled best before 11/23/06. yikes! this was bad, somewhat sour, carboard, and vegetable. undrinkable. oh well.

Bottle via Puddintane. Pours a deep and musty garnet color with a nice ivory head. Super sweet, wort-like aroma. A very balanced brew. Somewhat sweet with a Carmel and dark fruit flavor. Clean, fruity finish. A nice beer.

12oz bottle. Pours a dark ruby red with no head. Aroma is sweet, hoppy, syrupy, grapefruit. Looks and smells like a barley wine. Taste is sweet, bitter, hoppy, piney, earthy. This is a nicely balanced, hoppy beer that’s not too sweet thankfully.

Bottle. Dark amber colour with a weak head. Aroma of fat caramel with notes of high alpha hops. Nice flavour of caramel, malt and some bitterness at the ned, very nice and tasty endeed.

alcohol is dominant in this one, decent hop flavor, smells and tastes what a stron ale should smell and taste like.

FOURTH TRIAL: I’ve had this beer a few times before at (what tastes like) varying degrees of freshness. The first few times I’ve had it, it had a great hop presence, a nice malty backbone, and a bit of rye flavore. However, this time, it was much less hoppy and the malt and alcohol seemed to have taken a more dominant position. It was still good, but not as good as the first few trials. When both are fresh, I slightly prefer Founder’s Red’s Rye (which tastes quite similar to me), but to me, this beer seems to age a bit better (still rather have it fresh though). Overall, a great beer: great looking, great lacing, great smelling, and great tasting.

12oz bottle from moejuck - thanks, Joe! This beer wasn’t exactly what I was expecting, but it’s quite nice. A pumped up, fairly hoppy amber, I’m not sure of its relation to its pale ale younger sibling. But regardless of that, it’s nice looking, medium bodied, with a piquant quality to the flavors and just a tad of a bite (from hops, from spice, who knows?). Fine stuff.