Great Lakes Eliot Ness

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

This is one hell of a hearty, full bodied beer with a nice floral accompaniment to the nuttiness.

Hazy bright reddish-copper color with a nice light tan head that last, leaves great lacing in my glass. Toasted nut and brown sugar aromas, nutty caramel flavors, medium bodied with a full and creamy mouthfeel, perfect carbonation, finishes clean with some sweetness. I believe this is the best amber lager I have ever had.

Beautiful amber lager which shows off some of the finest malt I’ve encountered. Complex caramel, smoky and toasted flavors which slide down on a creamy palate. Malt is rather like Mahr’s Ungespundet or Stoudt’s Gold, but more complex. Superb.

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!

This is the best beer that Great lakes produces (I haven't tried Edmund Fitzgerald, but I have sampled dortmunder gold). This beer is full of malty goodness, however, it does not remind me much of Elliot Ness without the label.

An excellent beer withall the qualities a beer should have. Words cannot describe beer made like this one. If you want an accurate review of this beer, buy some. You won’t be sorry.

Pours a bright amber with a one and a half finger head. Aroma is of malts and hops with some fruity tones. Taste is smooth and malty and the hops really shine through as well. One of my favorite lagers for a long time, definitely worth a try if you haven’t had one before.

This has a rich, malty aroma and a nice ruby amber color. The flavor is smooth and quite tasty for a lager, with a whopping 6.2% to boot. This is one of the best lager’s I’ve ever tasted.