Great Lakes Brewing Alberta Clipper

Alberta Clipper

 

Great Lakes Brewing in Cleveland, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸

  Porter - Imperial Rotating
Score
6.98
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 40 Ticks: 31
Imperial Porter with Chocolate and Raspberries

Bid farewell to winter’s cruel tyranny with the creamy, bittersweet dark chocolate flavors and fresh raspberry tartness of Alberta Clipper Porter. Named for the intense winter storms that sweep the Midwest and Great Lakes Regions, making us all a little tougher (and a lot colder), Alberta Clipper is the perfect treat to celebrate the return of milder weather and kiss those wintry winds goodbye… at least for a little while.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Pours a dark brown black with no head. Fruity nose. Berries blending into chocolate malt.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:11


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft pour at Great Lakes Brewing. Poured a really dark brown color, almost black, but not quite. Aroma was roasted malts, but front and center is an aroma that is like a raspberry cordial. Flavor has a ton of chocolate-covered raspberries. Dark chocolate. Really nice, but more of a desert-type of a beer.

Tried from Draft on 27 Oct 2017 at 10:55


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle as a trade extra. Pours clear ruby mahogany, small tan head, dissipates fairly quickly, good lacing. Aroma is roast, cocoa, raspberry, clay. Flavor is light plus sweet, light plus bitter, raspberry and cocoa. Medium body.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jul 2016 at 19:55


8.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Aroma: roasty, chocolate, raspberry Appearance: dark brown with a tan head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: medium body, creamy, soft carbonation, long finish, Tasty

Tried on 09 Apr 2016 at 08:43


5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bocktown tap. From the smell, I couldn’t wait to taste. Has a nice dark beer aroma with perhaps a touch of clove on the nose. At first the taste is fairly mild with perhaps some clove in there. Then it gets a little more bold, with its dark beer attitude it leaves a slightly cloying roasty burnt wood finish.

Tried from Draft on 08 Apr 2016 at 07:19


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Refrigerated 12 oz brown bottle, best by July 13, 2016, poured into an English pint glass. Black with dark brown highlights and small beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, medium body, some carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is roasted malt and a little raspberry.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2016 at 19:58


8

Tried on 22 Nov 2015 at 19:07


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

bottle - Pours near black with a small tan head. The aroma is mainly of roasted malt and chocolate with maybe a hint of fruit. It tastes sweet, fruity, and chocolatey. Smooth and tasty. Full bodied. Very good.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Nov 2015 at 12:33


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, single centimetre tall tan head with large bubbles. Aroma of raspberries, cherries, grain, light coffee, earth, malt and a touch of chocolate. Medium-bodied; A touch watery at first with an earthy and nutty flavour that shows some chocolate and a hint of coffee right afterwards, with a thin texture and a rather watery finish. Aftertaste shows some light sugars and mellow fruit, and almost no malt at all to speak of - light. Overall, a decent porter at best. Good intentions all around, and while it smells good, it doesn’t look too great and the watery profile and relatively simple finish make this drinkable if you like the style, but not worth searching for if you don’t - fairly simple here. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Washington (Foggy Bottom, Eye Street NW) on 11-May-2015 for US$3,49 sampled at home in Washington on 31-October-2015.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Nov 2015 at 00:36


6.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle: Nearly black with a small tan head. Chocolate, berry aroma. Taste is chocolate malt, black cherry, raspberry. Sweet....a little weak.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2015 at 09:02