Leelanau Brewing Company

Client Brewer in Lake Leelanau, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2005

Contact
473 N Manitou Trail, Lake Leelanau, MI, 49653, United States
Description
Each and every beer is hand-made in small batches, using age old techniques of open fermentation, barrel aging and bottle conditioning.

We do not pitch any wild yeasts into our alchemy. Our magic is performed the old fashioned way.

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled (somewhere during Copenhagen pubbing). Hazy deep orangeish coppery colour with mediumsized foamy slightly off-white head. Aroma is lots of fruityness, some burnt sugar, mild oaked notes. Flavour is quite much the same along with some mild sourness lurking as well. Quite interesting brew, and surprisingly "thick and fullpalated" for being 5.5%.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jul 2009 at 02:57


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

Bottled (somewhere in Copenhagen pubbing). Hazy yellow colour with mediumsized creamy head. Aroma has lots of coriander, some wheat as well as some mild acidic notes. Flavour is wheat, a bit acidic notes, coriander as well as some fruity notes as well. Wellbrewed imitation of Wit.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jul 2009 at 02:54


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle 75cl. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #2. ]Unclear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy citrus tart, fruity, acidic apricot - green apples. Flavor is moderate sweet to heavy and moderate acidic with a long duration, and a dry dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090501]

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2009 at 04:14


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Clear golden with a medium white head. Sweet fruity aroma with yeasty and brett notes. Sour flavour with lacto, sour lemons and grapefruit notes. Flavour was sour with lacto, brett, lemons, grapefruit and woody notes. Finished sour.

Tried on 02 Jun 2009 at 17:20


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

Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Hazy yellow with a creamy white head leaving laces. Lightly tart Brett aroma. Light body, pale malts, tart fruitiness, a whiff of green apples and an astringent and lactic dry finish. Nice one. 010509

Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2009 at 14:16


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle 1pt. 0.9fl.oz. @ home.Light unclear medium amber orange color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel - toffee, oak, light to moderate yeasty, vinegar notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy caramel sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090125]

Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2009 at 09:46


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

Bottle 1pt. 0.9fl.oz. @ home.Unclear hazy medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, wheat, citrus, orange peel, moderate yeasty, spicy, coriander, sweet vinegar - sweet lemon / citrus. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet, light acidc, moderate to light light heavy bitter and sweet vinegar with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090125]

Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2009 at 09:45


6.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. A hazy light golden beer with a bit of sediment floating around under a thin white head. The aroma is acidic with notes of citrus and brettanomyces. The flavor is acidic with notes of citrus and brettanomyces as well as light notes of wheat, leading to a lightly tart finish.

Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2009 at 13:33


8.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

I’ve been avoiding this beer for a while due to the cost, but I must say I’m glad I finally dropped the cash - first, this is a beautiful beer - cloudy orange, with a frothy, lasting head, that leaves a sticky, thick lace - a slight leathery brett character in the nose, damp oak, bitter orange and peach pits - the flavor is dry and flinty, with a barky, quinine-like bitterness - some dry, crackery malts, hay - earthy, musty, lightly bretty/barnyardy - a bit of citrus fruit tartness on the back - the oak is a little too potent in the finish, but I can’t complain that much, because otherwise this is a great.

Tried from Can on 02 May 2009 at 21:00


6.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

#2 at papsø blind tasting cloudy yellow,s mall white head. aroma is citrussy, slight stable, brett. flaov r is a mix between stable, brett. also slight citrussy.

Tried on 02 May 2009 at 17:38