Great Lakes The Doppelrock
Best by 06/01/11 Poured into a New Glarus pilsner glass. Dude Looks Like a Lady A clear rusty color brown beer with a few active bubbles rising to the top. The beer has pretty deep shadows in the thicker parts of the glass. A decent sized head leaves equally decent lacing. The color of the foam is kinda weird. Its a yellowish white. Smells Like Teen Spirit The aroma here is big on grains and toffee. Some lighter chocolate is there too. Hops seem adequately low, and stay out of the way with a delicate tea leaf aroma. Suck my Kiss There is a lot of nuttiness to this beer. The earthiness is offset by a little toffee. Grassy hops bring things towards balance, but the sweet stuff edges it out. This isn't huge and rich, as I had hoped. I think if I didn't know any better I might call this some sort of malty brown ale. More Than a Feelin' Fizzy with a sharp carbonation. Too much. It really defeats any chance this has of being rich and creamy. The feel doesn't seem to be too thinned out from it, but it doesn't help. This beer finishes very dry. Its like drinking a Dennis Miller joke. Over the Hills and Far Away Give me a Celebrator. But in all honesty I didn't expect this to be better that Celebrator. I did, however, expect it to at least be above average. This stuff really is just about average. Its like a Muzak version of a Jimmy Page solo, it should be awesome, but its just been castrated. I would have written an awesome review full of rock and roll references and things, but this beer just didn't inspire me to do so, Wasted Years.