Great Lakes Alberta Clipper

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Cleveland, Ohio USA

On tap Great Lakes. Pours dark brown with small, off white head. Aroma is vanilla, berries and chocolate. Flavor is chocolate sweetness with some roast and hop bitterness. Very smooth and drinkable.

Growler pours very dark brown with a thick off white head. Smells like roasty caramel malt and mostly chocolate. Has a medium mouthfeel with a fair amount of carbonation. Aroma leads into taste and has mostly over the top chocolate flavors, but not in a sweet way. Which makes is very inviting. A nice chocolate brew that does not have cloyingly sweetness with it. The rasperries are very subtle and help to add just a hint of fruit flavor on the finish. The chocolate is moslty upfront with a subtle rasperry subtle tart flavor on the finish. Very nice brew.

dark brown with mild head. moderate to low carbonation. some chocolate on the nose. flavor is of some chocolate malt with a tremendous lingering bitter dark chocolate taste with some mild fruitiness rasberries coming through. Perfectly crafted as always

On tap @ the brew pub: Black with a light tan head. Aroma, light raspberry notes, some chocolate, and roasted malts. Flavor, chocolate, roasted malts, coffee, some sweetness. The raspberries are more sedated in the flavor profile than they are in the aroma. There is also some roasty bitterness on the finish. All in all a pretty good beer.

Pours black with a red tinge to it, small beige head. Aroma isn’t huge but it is chocolate all the way like a chocolate cake. Flavor is the same a subtle cocoa and unsweetened chocolate flavor that is like a freakin chocolate cake, you can’t really taste any raspberries I never would’ve been able to tell but it does leave a tart dryness in your mouth on the aftertaste. The best way to describe this beer is it’s like a chocolate cake with raspberry glaze on it, the flavors are subtle but they get stronger as it warms, no hops or alcohol taste. Very creamy mouthfeel that made this way too easy to drink, nothing over the top which is what I liked, great beer.