Great Lakes Brewing Dortmunder Gold

Dortmunder Gold

 

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

  Lager - Dortmunder Regular
Score
6.83
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 30 Ticks: 92
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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6.4
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
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

That's a smack on the face of hops.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 16:56


6.8
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
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
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
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

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2020 at 18:31


6.9
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


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

Pours amber from a tap. Wintergreen/birch beer aroma, flavor is an oddly sweet birch beer, very thin. Okay beer.

Tried from Draft on 28 Jun 2019 at 22:09