Great Lakes Brewing Lake Erie Monster

Lake Erie Monster

 

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

  IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating
Score
7.16
ABV: 9.5% IBU: 80 Ticks: 69
Issue a small craft advisory: this South Bay Bessie-inspired brew launches an intense hop attack amid torrid tropical fruit flavors.
 

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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Pours a shiny orange amber from bottle. Grapefruit, floral, some pineapple and resin. Malt too Very good.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:37


3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

Tap @ Colter Bay. Amber. Malty, massive caramel, very bitter, herbal, very alcoholic. Difficult to get through. Poor.

Tried from Draft on 07 Sep 2018 at 19:07


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12oz bottle pours out amber gold topped with a sand head. Nose is nice toast hop resin dank notes. Taste is more of the nice big hops toast malts and some spice.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2018 at 23:13


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

Bottle from J’s. Pours a clear, deep gold with a small finger of head that dissipates almost instantly. Oranges, malt and caramel dominate the nose. Light on the palate, citrus and orange hardcandy. Caramel and booze. Finish is a little hot.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Jun 2017 at 22:32


4

Tried on 27 Sep 2016 at 21:58


6.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Overripe orange, lemongrass, and ash nose, not strong. Cloudy orange, thick sticky yellow head. Sweet triple sec, vegetal, tangerine. Full body, easy carbonation, warm. A bit cloying.

Tried on 22 Sep 2016 at 18:43


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Gordon Biersch @ DTW
Pours clear dark golden with a medium sized, some lacing. Aroma is fruity, citrus and herbal. Flavor is fruity, caramel and pine resin

Tried from Draft on 19 Jul 2016 at 13:14


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

Pint at the Winking Lizard Cleveland Slightly hazy deep golden with a decent sized bubbly white head. Old school bready caramel maltiness with plenty of citrus and pine and maybe just a hint of tropical. Nice beer.

Tried on 18 Jul 2016 at 19:05


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Lots of citrus and some mash malt in here but has a weird aftertaste. Too much mash malt tanginess. Pours orange with ok head and lacing. Bottle.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2015 at 19:20


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle thanks to Tim. Pours a clear orange with small off white head. The aroma is pine, floral, citrus. Medium mouth, honey, pine, citrus, light bitterness, juicy, very good.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2015 at 17:14