Dortmunder Gold
Great Lakes Brewing in Cleveland, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Dortmunder Regular|
Score
6.84
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A classic award-winning balance of sweet malt and dry hop flavors, proudly waving the flag for Cleveland and refreshing beer drinkers everywhere since 1988.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Excellent lager, rich and full-bodies and crisp, with a grainy sweetness laced with lemon, apple, cut grass, and white bread, followed by a firm floral bitterness on the finish. Tasty.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Mar 2026
at 00:32
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
12 oz can from Beerbox. Pours clear deep golden with a one+ finger bone-white head with decent retention. Aroma is bready, grassy, metallic. Taste has a bready malt sweetness backed by moderate hop bitterness, finishing dry.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Aug 2025
at 21:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours a nice gold - exceedingly well balanced and very drinkable. Nice malt level and hops levle- basically everything they said it was.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:51
8/10
That's a smack on the face of hops.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. Clear deep gold, off-white head. Caramel, toasted malt, hay, bready, mildly sweet finish.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Feb 2023
at 04:46
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Great Lakes, pours a clear dark copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out spicier herbal notes and the bready malt. Flavour is rye-like, with toasted bread crusts and light herbal notes. Earthy and spicy, with a bready finish. I don't quite understand the sky-high ratings for this, but it's decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Nov 2022
at 04:18
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from 101 Bottles, Kent, OH. Wet grass in the aroma. Quite a butch dortmunder with a heavier bitterness than usual, pushed by higher abv. Nice drinking but surprised by top 50. (14/5/22)
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2022
at 23:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 6
Very well balanced beer. Gold with lasting thick white head. Bread and hay aroma. Full well balanced taste bread from the malt and fruit from the hops. Clean finish
Tried
on 21 Jun 2020
at 01:50
5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2020
at 18:31
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle, pours coppery gold clear. Medium body. Bready aroma, caramel malt taste and bitter hops finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 23:48