Great Lakes Brewing

Commercial Brewery in Cleveland, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1988

Contact
2516 Market Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
Description
Great Lakes Brewing Company is a principle-centered, environmentally respectful and socially conscious company committed to crafting fresh, flavorful, high-quality beer and food for the enjoyment of our customers. We aspire to maintain our status as the premier craft brewery in the Great Lakes region and are dedicated to uncompromising service, continuous improvement and innovative consumer education.

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6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Hazy golden yellow wtih moderate off white head. Orange, honey, wheat malt, and straw aroma. Very sweet herbal honey, blood orange, wheat malt, and mildly bitter straw flavor. Good body.
Tried from Can on 05 Apr 2026 at 00:18

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Pours clear gold with a white head. Taste is tropical fruit, citrus, pine, caramel, warming finish.
Tried from Draft from Craft + Carry - Hell's Kitchen on 02 Apr 2026 at 23:02

7.5/10 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

9.3/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 10 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
12 oz. can from Total Wine. Pours a clear, super dark ruby red color with dark ruby highlights and a beige head with excellent retention. Great lacing too. Dark chocolate and roasted malts aroma. The flavor is similar to the nose, with more roasted malt flavor and less chocolate notes. Super smooth and clean, with a drying finish. Slightly thin body for the style. Light carbonation. Low bitterness in spite of the 40 IBUs. Very nice beer.
Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2026 at 23:23

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
Draft pour into a standard shaker pint

Pours an deep amber to ruby red with a finger of white to off white head that disapates fairly quickly leaving minimal lacing.

Aroma of caramel malt to toffee, clean yeast with faint fruity esters, some grassy hop notes.

Caramel and toffee lead into some light but bright fruity esters lending a perceived sweetness that ends balanced by the hops coming in at the end

A medium bodied ale that is super smooth and drinkable considering the abv. A nice malty body balanced by a dryness and a slight hop bitterness make this one go down easy

Overall this is a very nice big Irish red ale that drinks smooth and easy. Paired with a shepards pie on St Paddy's day it was really working for me. I'd gladly come back to this.
Tried from Draft from Alkies Brews and More on 17 Mar 2026 at 17:25

8.4/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8
Very dark brown with orange highlights and a large foamy tan head that left good lacing. Boozy with bourbon, raisin, fig, molasses, caramel and dough. Very long finish. Full bodied.
Tried from Can on 14 Mar 2026 at 23:00

7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
12oz can. Medium bodied, quite sessionable. Easy malt tone, faint noble hop balance. Pretty enjoyable overall.
Tried on 12 Mar 2026 at 20:45

6.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6
12oz can. Aroma isn''t that pleasant. Oily on the edge of sour, gastric. Medium bodied, easy drinking. Overall quite lackluster, Great Lakes used to be able to do a lot better than this.
Tried on 12 Mar 2026 at 02:26

6.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pours a clear bronze with a small tan head. From,a of malt on the nose, some lingering hops. Taste has plenty of malt, rich grain, some caramel. Palate has light smattering of hops that lingers, some more clean-billed malt. Good.
Tried on 11 Mar 2026 at 12:15

7/10
Tried from Can on 11 Mar 2026 at 03:40