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Great Lakes Brewing Red Leaf Lager

Great Lakes Brewing Red Leaf Lager - American Dark Lager

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12
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Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing (Ontario)
Style: American Dark Lager

Etobicoke, Canada

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
502.34/5.02.39/5.05%29.9Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker
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 Crockett (904), Steelback County, Ontario, Canada
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/59/20
Aug 26, 2005  
Deep red amber clear pour with a short creamy white head. Sweet apple and wood aroma with traces of peat moss. Looks alright but very plain. Sweet grapes and apple. Not much hop. A little earth and ..... nope nothing else. Lots of carbonation though. Bleh.


 tupalev (2605), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/102/512/20
Aug 22, 2005  
Sampled at Beer Bistro Golden Tap Awards. Red body, small white head. Sweet dark lager taste, thin and uninspiring, but pretty darn drinkable. Not for the first time at this little well run fest, I was pleasantly surprised - some of these "average" rated Ontario micro’s do taste better from a fresh keg for sure.


 Cartoonkhaki (1149), Brantford, Ontario, Canada
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/511/20
May 1, 2005  
Red amber hue with thin wispy head... sarbonated aroma slight apple cider. good body slightly weak though.... nothing special though...


 can8ianben (903), Pasadena, California, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/56/103/512/20
Mar 18, 2005  
Cheap alternative to Rickards Red on tap. Not much going on, it has more flavour than a normal lager and a much nicer colour, but still fairly bland.


 MrManning (1634), London, Ontario, Canada
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/511/20
Nov 18, 2004  
Bottle- Pours a dark amber colour with just a hint of rouge in it. Not as red as I would have thought. head is frothy, and off white. Aroma is sour, minimal hops. Taste is slightly sour, earthy, with some malt hints. Watery on the finish. Decent enough to drink again.


 beanmedic (324), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/102/511/20
Sep 27, 2004    Updated: May 1, 2006
Pretty decent. Very red looking with a normal amber ale flavour. A little thin on the palate side
Earlier Rating: 6/20/2004 Total Score: 2.2
red colour. no head. taste is lacking a bit. a little fizzy. thin and watery. boring.


 shintriad (698), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/102/58/20
Aug 10, 2004  
Why does the T.O. Festival of Beer have to have so many sucky beers? Creamy, frothy pour and a maple syrup colour to it, some cookie and toffee notes and a sticky body. As it warms, however, it begins to fall apart, with a cheap homebrew taste to it. Had potential but went nowhere.


 pootzboy (1035), Hawgville, Ontario, Canada
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/59/20
Jul 23, 2004    Updated: Oct 6, 2006
Judging by the varied reviews this beer must vary lot to lot...that seems to explain it to me. Sampled twice at the goodbeer festival. Poured a copper color (where’s the "red" here?) slight head that disappeared fast. No real nose to it... wisps of caramelized malt where barely detected. Has a weak mouthfeel...light body some sweet malt tastes...hops subdued...quick clean finish with no aftertaste. I tried it again after sampling other beers but I got the same impression...this is as mainstream as they come...I didn’t bother with their golden horseshoe lager as I suspect it would be similarly mainstream and at this stage of the game I’m lagered out where commonplace commercial tasting extract beers are concerned. This isn’t bad but it’s not good and has no distinctive qualities...we need another mainstream bland extract beer alike another tax hike.



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