Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter

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

Bottle as part of a 6-pack. I’ve had it quite a few times bottled, but never rated it. One of my favorite beers, hands down. Pours a very dark brown, almost opaque, even when held to light. Tan head, fades quickly but leaves nice little islands. I love the aroma - chocolate + delicious roast comes through. Super creamy beer, exactly the way I like it. The taste is the best part though - coffee, chocolate, roasted malts - all come through with a nice bitter finish. The slightly bitter finish really puts it over the top when compared to other beers of the style. Almost perfect.

Draft pint from Arnold’s in downtown Cincinnati. Very dark brown pour with light tan head. Smooth, roasty, chocolaty, malty, with coffee aroma and taste, too. Excellent, well-crafted porter.

Wedding Anniversary 2009
< br />5/14/2009: Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter has always come across as a very roasty and robust porter. It drinks more like a full blown stout, but is quite good and very respectable nonetheless. This beer is near black in color. It has a medium-full body that provides some heft to support the roasty, bittersweet chocolate aroma and flavor. There are even some notes of coffee and black barley. Overall this is a well-crafted, robust porter that still stands up today with all of the the other new and extreme beers.

Pint (draught) at Mulligan’s Hyde Park Pub in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rating #921 for this beer.

Wow. Simultaneously a very typical porter in terms of appearance and palate but totally exceptional in flavor. Roasted coffee and chocolate aroma gives way to excellent coffee/caramel/chocolate taste with a nice level of bitter hops to balance it out. Loved this the first time I tried it and like it even better now. Fantastic stuff, a perfect session beer.

Black por with a nice tan head......roasted note in the aroma and a very deep and rich malt flavor. Creamy and very, very drinkable.....unbeliveable. So good and finishes soooo clean. WOW

Bottle thanks to coyotehunter. Pours with a near black, brown body with red highlights and a creamy tan head. Aroma of cocoa powder, smoke, cherry and light coffee grounds. Taste is a classic, but clean strongly roasty porter. Cocoa and and a bit of smoke. Good solid tasting, well made porter. Some hop bitterness. Went decently well with Key-Lime pie. Lively carbonation, creamy.

Pours a dark ruby red with a medium off-white head. Coffee, caramel, and vanilla on the nose. Taste of coffee, chocolate, caramel and slight alcohol. Dry, smooth, bitter finish. I am not a big fan of this style, but this truly is an exceptional beer.

Dark brown, damn near black with a tan foamy head. Aroma is a bit low, but whats there is a bit chocolatey, some coffee, and a touch of roasted malt. Flavor is mediocre of that listed above, but a thinnish mouthfeel. The closer to the bottom I get, the better it is. Still, missing something.