Great Lakes Nosferatu

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Cleveland, Ohio USA

Pours a nice copper color with a thin, dense, off-white head. Aroma has a very lively Marris Otter malt presence, a great hoppy nose - earthy, light pine with lots of heavy overall bitterness. Flavor has a heavy Marris Otter malt toasted flavor, a very heavy bitter hops bite, earthy hops with a mild chocolate malt note and some heavy toasted finishing malt notes. Modest density and a smooth texture for a beer this bitter. Overall a fantastic brew and one well worth the money.

Draft at D’s. Poured a deep amber with a fleeting head. I remember mostly a potpourri nose with a relatively complex body of spices, flowers and grass. Palate was nice, a bit on the soft side for my taste.

Dusty old bottle thieved from a dug up coffin (courtesy LtDan) and busted open over the cold gray tombstone into the skeleton’s own cracked skull.

Staring in through the skull’s eyes, I can see a witch’s brew that gurgles to a floating 2-zombie-finger head. The brew itself slops around lazily like rotted brains with the same color of the blood that was sucked from the lifeless body years ago, only clear like the dead of a cool night under a full moon.

The putrid aroma wafting up from the skull is of freshly turned earth mixed with chewed up milk chocoate and a shot of booze from a castle in the old country. A glimpse of flavor strolls across the tongue as the beer slops down throat and shirt while poured across the jagged teeth of the makeshift chalice. It’s as if the old jaw was possesed and chewed up malt and choclate and drooled it happily back into my mouth. All of this with a gruesome dose of earthy hops that must have been harvested by the Grim Reaper from a vine growing on Frankenstein’s dismantled grave.

The beer across my palate is the bittersweet pleasure in the pain of being stared down by Dracula himself.

All in all, a terrifying beer.

nice aroma with distinctive hoppy and yeast smell. Great dark amber appearance. Not a lot of head. Great beer for hop heads with a lasting palate. Great beer.

Campfire smoke, roasted caramel malt and red ale flavors are balanced by a well-intertwined backbone of hops that linger with the malt and assist the impressive structure.

Bottle to Pint glass. Has a nice coppery tone with a moderate off white head. Nice Hoppy aroma and a wonderful malty taste with a slightly bitter finish.

12 oz. bottle from Ludlow Wines. Pours a slightly cloudy ruby red color with a small eggshell head that leaves only a thin rim around the sides and a few bubbles on top. Nice aroma of raisin, black cherry, sweet roasted malts, caramel, toffee, nuts, and citrus hops. The flavor is just a notch below the aroma, with notes of caramel, sweet roasted malts, pine hops, alcohol, dark and dried fruits, spices, and mixed nuts. Light-medium bodied, sweet early and bitter late. Lingering alcohol aftertaste.

Seriously earthy, bitterish Euro malt aroma. Sharp and Bavarian. Dark with a little toffee sweetness on the back end. Has the aroma of potting soil. Appears dark Triaminic red-orange. Glassy and clear. Very good head retention. Flavor is supremely bitter malt: earthy, dark roasted, hints of caramel and toffee. Spicy hop of pine and oak. VERY resiny. A ton of flavor, just no hint of a sweet respite. Malt remains a dark amber. Feels thick and creamy, but gritty at the swallow. A very heavy, supremely woody strong ale. Lot of slowly sippable heft.