Great Lakes Eliot Ness

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

Great looking beer! It is a cool orange color with a tan head. There is a ton of malt in the aroma and in the taste. Very sweet with a nice little bitter bite that stays around. There is also a lot of dark fruit that adds a nice complexity. Some caramel hints can be found as well. Great beer!

Bottle. Pours medium amber w/ small light tan head. Nose is caramel and nutty. NIce and thick with lots of nuts, caramel. Light hopps come through in the nose and taste as the beer warms.

Tried at the Boneyard in Cleveland. Prolly the best looking Amber I have ever tried. Almost a glowing amber color with a thick foamy had with great lacing and retention. I was in a bar, so there were far too many other smells to really pin down the nose. Taste was clean, smooth, with good body and very nice flavor.

Reddish amber in color with a nice persistent off white head. Good smell that has a balance of hop and malt. Nice hop bite in the taste that fades into a light malty sweetness.

Bottled. Deep amber color with cherry tints. Big hop bitterness with medium to full Vienna malt flavor. Smooth and well rounded with a strong, hoppy finish. the malt is slightly over-run by the bitterness, but altogether an interesting, flavorful interpretation.

Sweet malty aroma. Has a rich amber color. Had a honey malt flavor with a crisp finish.

12 oz bottle. Clear amber brown with an airy, dirty tan head that quickly deflates. Woody and nutty; some molasses and green olives. Mild carb yields to licorice and orange pith, but subtle. A new style for me. Like a porter-lager mix. Somewhat flat.

Solid rust/coppery color with a slight chill haze, medium, softly topped chicken meat colored head that sits a good while before settling to a favorable skim and thin, speckled curtains of lace sticking as we go. Aroma is quite light on the nose with some light toasty grains and bread with just a bit of sweetened fruitiness. As it warms a nice smokey-like dryness, roasty hazel nuts, and hard caramel appear in the nose making it much nicer and even a bit stronger. Taste is mild but eager with a small easy start that remains in some mixed maltyness of slight sweetness and light toastyness, but that gains with a gradual presence of uniquely thick seven grain pancake-like toasty roundness. Perfectly milding light grassy spice and hops poke through. Add in the teriffic finish of smokened grains and malts slightly drying and lifting into the finishwith mixed roasty nuttyness. Very intriguing flavors indeed, well put together with a delicately rich and smooth body that keeps convalescing. A true showmanship of the meaning behind hand crafted. Wow, what a recipe, great stuff! Try it and see, you'll be impressed no doubt! Absolutely drinkable to the fullest! My new Vienna/Marzen to keep around at all costs! Yum times ten!