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Great Lakes Brewing Red Leaf Lager

Great Lakes Brewing Red Leaf Lager - American Dark Lager

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Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing (Ontario)
Style: American Dark Lager

Etobicoke, Canada

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502.34/5.02.39/5.05%29.9Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker
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 AWS9 (222), Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/102/59/20
Jan 1, 2008  
341 mL bottle as part of the Ontario discovery pack. Light malty nose. A malt taste is certainly there, but the beer is disappointingly thin. The effort to make the bottle labeling look old is noted....


 Slacks (481), Bolton, Ontario, Canada
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/510/20
Dec 28, 2007  
341ml Bottle: Provided fresh from the brewer at the Mobile Monday event in Toronto. I see the OCB decided this was one of Ontario’s finest, deserving placement in the new Discovery Pack. Really. The aroma is caramel sweet and the flavour is bland, delivering hints of that sweetness and some form of sourness, but little else. Now that these guys are proving they can brew with their seasonals perhaps it’s time to go back and reformulate these a bit?


 garthicus (1216), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/53/101/54/20
Dec 22, 2007  
Bottle- Ontario Craft Brewers 6 pack at the LCBO. Very light malt aroma, very light malt flavour. Dark brown-red colour, small head. The End.


 markas101 (541), Fargo, North Dakota, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/103/510/20
Dec 18, 2007  
33 cl bottle, Shelburne. Faint unoffedning aroma, sweet flavor, almost thick tasting. Nothing terrible but wouldn’t recommend (except that it came as part of the LCBO mixed six pack).


 yarry (370), Waterdown, Ontario, Canada
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/59/20
Dec 12, 2007  
341ml bottle, 5% a/v From the Ontario Craft Brewers 6 pack at the LCBO. Pours a deep red amber with a medium tan head. Metal, caramel, and almost lactic acid bitterness invade the nose, while the tongue detects malt flavour with little else. smooth on the finish. As the last two have now said, GLB makes fantastic seasonals, but this is just too incredibly average to be any good.


 JesseM (661), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/104/511/20
Dec 4, 2007  
341ml bottle from my Ontario Craft brewers pack. Pours a dark amber colour with a large beige, almost pink head. The aroma is metallic, caramalts, and a touch of hops, with a hint of something sour? The taste is kind of bland, mostly just malts, but the finish and aftertaste is cool and refreshing. I’m never all that impressed with American dark lagers, and this is no exception. Yeah, it’s smooth and easy drinking, but would it kill them to add some sort of distinct flavour(s) at all? VeloVampire is right, the seasonal brews from Great Lakes are definitely something special respectively, but beers like this really are benign, run-of-the mill and unimpressive. Too bad.


 VeloVampire (483), Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/510/20
Nov 30, 2007    Updated: Dec 5, 2007
341 ml bottle from the Ontario Craft Brewers Discovery Pack - pours a dark amber with a small white head. Fairly sweet, malty aroma, but a good amount of grain in there too. A lightly toasty quality as well. More toastiness in the mouth, with slightly less-than-average carbonation. Faint, dry finish, with some lingering alcohol. Ok, but where this brewery really shines is with their seasonal ales. Stick to those (and steer clear of the benign lagers) and you’re fine....


 tomthompson89 (1459), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/103/56/102/510/20
Aug 27, 2007  
amber color, slight head aroma is odd kinda sweet, decent summer downer.!!!...



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