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Great Lakes Honey Ale 2.82 11

Great Lakes Honey Ale


Percentile
30
overall

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
112.83/5.02.82/5.08%1Snifter, Trappist glass
Commercial Description:
A strong blonde ale brewed with raw honey for strength and complexity. A substantial amount of hops make this a beer with a dry finish.
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 crizay (1050), Brook Park (was Tampa,FL), Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Apr 8, 2007  
Clear golden pour, big frothy white head with lots of lacing. Caramel malts, almost butter like sweetness, honey is there but it would be a light honey cloying sweetness, floral hops in the finish and a dry aftertaste. I liked that it wasn’t very sweet or weak.


 Dogbrick (2869), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/514/20
Aug 4, 2008  
Glass from a growler courtesy of a traveling friend. This brew pours a mostly clear pale golden color with a medium and foamy white head that recedes steadily. Thin rings of lacing on the glass. Mildly spiced hops aroma with sweet honey in the background. Light-bodied and efferevescent with flavors of sweet malt and honey and a moderately bitter hops overtone. The finish is sweet molasses and honey and short. Average overall, though I suspect that if they threw the word "Imperial" in the name considering the ABV it would be better received.


 sliffy (2012), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Jul 20, 2006  
Draft at Dily Deli: Clear amber color with a medium to small khaki colored head. Aroma was honey and some spicy hops. Flavor, sweet, some breadiness, spice, a little bittersweet on the finish. Pretty nice, and I didn’t have to go to Cleveland for it.


 Tmoney99 (4777), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/512/20
Jul 18, 2006  
Draft at GL tasting at Dilly Deli, Cincy. Poured clear golden color with large frothy white head that mostly lasted with excellent lacing. Moderate sweet floral citrus aroma. Medium body with slick dry texture. Medium balanced sweet bitter flavor with the same balanced finish of moderate duration. Thank you to the brewmaster, Luke, for bringing this to town.


 LuckeyHaskins99 (180), Toledo, Ohio, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/512/20
Feb 18, 2002  
Got this much fresher than user_experience did (I was at the brewery) Smooth finsh, clean tasting a bit sweet, but light on malt and hops.... Somewhere near the middle of the Greal Lakes brews, better than Honey Brown, but I wouldn’t run off and buy any. Not stocked here in Toledo only 100 miles away, as the shelves are filled with Ness, Moses, and Burning River.


 Drew (2410), Kent, Ohio, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Jun 3, 2002  
on tap, at the brewery - 6/1/02. medium thin body. Honey sweetness was not as evident as I thought it would be (that’s fine). long thin hoppy finish clears out the sweetness pretty quickly. Kind of odd - usually the ’honeys’ aren’t so hoppy.


 dkoonce (889), People’s Republic of Athens, Ohio, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/104/56/103/514/20
Apr 18, 2007  
On tap at the brew pub. Pale yellow with a small head. Not much aroma. Flavor is hoppy, with a bit of honey sweetness. But, the honey flavor is very faint and without the name, you’d be hard placed not figure out it was honey.


 estoppel (1028), Buffalo, New York, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Jul 31, 2008  
Draft at brewpub. Golden body, smallish white head, not much nose. Fairly sweet, with a sharp finish. Pretty weak flavor of the high ABV.



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