This is my go to beer these days. A local (Cleveland) brewery, so it undercuts the other premium beers by $2 per 6-pack (only $8.99). Anyone else tried it, or anything else by Great Lakes? Pretty solid lineup.

Obligatory illustration:

My Trader Joe's has really stepped it's beer game up. Three different kinds of Anchor beer. Picked up a six pack of their brown ale last night.

Those both look lovely.

Haven't seen either in my usual haunts.

Banged through a couple of cases of this bad boy during the Euros.

I think I've had Great Lakes beer from Cleveland, though there are several brewers called Great Lakes so I can't be sure. The pictured beer is presumably based on a Dortmunder Export. I approve, though part of me thinks beers shouldn't be called Dortmunder unless they're from Dortmund.

I also think names ending in -ator should be Doppelbocks, but the Slavs ain't having that.

A beer I enjoyed over the summer was White Rascal, a witbier from Avery Brewing in Colorado.

Bruno wrote:


Tried the Edmund Fitzgerald and the Eliot Ness...both a pretty good.

So in beer news...it turns out, a brewery has opened up a mere 200 yards from my front door and they are willing to sell growlers.

This beauty is back for the winter. Skip all things pumpkin.

Given that growler is a word for lady parts in some areas of Scotland, I shudder to think...

hobbes wrote:


Thta's a new one on me but could be a west coast thing. I think it's also slang for a meat pie in certain parts of Greater Manchester - my mate runs a chippy in Oldham and he's mentioned it. This could get very confusing.

On investigation, I may be talking utter bollocks as to the source of the term to be honest. I was working on the assumption that as I'd mainly heard it from a couple of mates from Glasgow, that was where it was from.
having had a quick google, it appears it might actually be rhyming slang that they picked up. Nevertheless, the main <ahem> thrust of my point remains.

(It is also used for a pie in Lancashire, as you rightly point out.)

Not sure about the origin but hobbes is correct, growler is slang for, you know, down there. Hence, even if I could afford one, I would buy one of these beauties

My beer of choice is this

It's not a lager and it is named after an English rugby player and I still love it

Wyatt Earp wrote:


I had to google Dortmunder Export which apparently dates from 1873. On the chatty label of my Great Lakes bottle it says "in the Middle Ages, this style brewed in Germany was so popular it required armed escorts when exported to surrounding towns." (In the Middle Ages people not inside the surrounding towns looked like this



so it's not surprising.)

It's also described as "not as dry as a Pilsner or as malty as a Munich-style lager."

Anyway it's a drinkable all-rounder. 5.8% alcohol. The label also says "World Champion / Gold Medal Winner / World Beer Championships / Great American Beer Festival". Places that are probably teeming with the sort of people that turned Nietzsche off of Wagner when he visited Bayreuth.

We've also been having their seasonal Oktoberfest, to which the site I linked above gives a perfect score of 100. All in all I like the Dortmunder better, it has a more bitter finish. But the slightly more sugary Oktoberfest is indeed ideal with a sausage.

Is the "Oktoberfest" an echtes Märzenbier, slightly red-tinged and a bit spicy? Or one of these blond Festbiers they have? I don't like the latter.

It's the Eliot Ness I must have had, I think.

Wyatt, the Oktoberfest looks echte to me.

I bought my brother-in-law a hamper from CASK for his birthday, it was quite expensive, but the beers he got were fantastic.

www.caskpubandkitchen.com/beers/

There was one from Tampa, Tobacco Brewery possibly, that was amazing.

We've got a limited run special edition 6.6% honey IPA in at the minute. It's only been given to certain pubs in London and we're one of them. It's fucking glorious.

Is that the Hayle Bay stuff? If so, I had it at the Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich and it is wonderful stuff. Knocks you a bit sideways after the 3rd, mind.

Yeah it is. We've just run out, appaz, so I need to order more in.