Great Lakes Nosferatu

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

Nice sweet deep red ale. Piney aromas and bitter hoppy flavors make this one very enjoyable. Slight sweetness on the finish with a decent malt profile. I was into this one.

12 oz. bottle Beautiful deep garnet color with medium head. Faint malty nose , but hops dominate. Barely noticeable alcohol , flavor is again dominated by hops. Very enjoyable. .Re-rated 09/22/06. Head is much larger with better structure and durability, nice lace. Medium body with slight stickiness, medium carbonation. Some burnt caramel, dark cherry, grapefruit bitterness. Long bitter finsih. this years version seems a little better to me.

12oz, Please enjoy by Nov 23/06. Pours a not quite blood red, though it is copper red with a one finger beige head. Aroma of pine resin grapefruit, and pineapple almost to the point of astringency, some caramel and lightly toasted malts, brown sugar. There is some candy sugary sweetness, but There’s a buttload of hops off balancing this brew as best they can. More grapefruity, spicy, and resiny hops in the taste. The alcohol isn’t really hiding at all, though isn’t terribly strong either for 8%. The beer has a lingering chalky bitter finish. Not as full bodied as I’d imagined (medium) and soft moderate carbonation. Quite nice.

Bottle pours a copper color that is playfully close to full-on red. Nose is instantly alive and surprisingly malty sweet with caramel, nuts and overripe fruit. Flavor starts smooth and sweet like the aroma but is rounded out by a sharp, powerful hop bitterness of citrus. The balance is gorgeous and each drink is revelatory and new.

A dark amber pour with a nice gooey lacing and an aroma of fruity caramel malt. A flavor that reeks of sweet malt initially and then kicks in with a nice hop bitter. A pallet that is very solid. A damn good beer that I’ll have to admit I could not identify until I looked it up.

This beer reminds me a lot like Gumballhead. It pours a nice amber/red color, with a sturdy head. he nos is filled with a hell of a lot of hops, which I like a whole hell of a lot. There’s also a slightly citrus smell, with parts of cane sugar. The smell delivers the taste, true hops, light lemon/green apple. the finish is smooth and bitter, with a touch of alcohol. All in all, this is a damn fine beer!

Poured from a 12-oz bottle a dark copper color with a small head. Has a sweet smell of fruity hops. A nice creamy taste of caramel malt to go along with the citrus hops. A nice balanced beer with a alcohol kick in the finish.

12 ounce bottle. Very hoppy and smooth aroma. Definitely some fruit in the first taste that fades into a nice lingering alcohol finish. Some citrus and nut in the finish.