#12beers of Beercember Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald review
It’s day 4 of Nathanial Square Corner Store’s Beercember event. Tonight’s recommended selection is Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald. A Porter from the far off distant land of Cleveland.
If you look on Beer Advocate this is one highly rated brew, holding an A score for over 1000, reviews. But the more important question is what do we, and by we I mean I, think of it. ;-)
It smells of coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt. It pours very dark brown, a tad more chocolaty than the black lager from last night, but, not much. The head is thin but persistent.
The taste is good, surprisingly bitter, creamy, a bit of coffee, with a dry finish. It’s very drinkable, the bitterness cleans up the richness nicely and leaves you thirsting for more, but it’s a bit over the top for me. I like the carbonation, it adds quite a bit to the drink ability of this one.
However, I really don’t see how this is an “A” brew. Perhaps it’s because I prefer a stout to a porter in my dark beers, or just because I’m not yet a fan of the extreme bitterness that we find in so many American micro brews, some times it works really well, sometimes it just seems unnecessary.
None the less it’s a very solid beer, It simply can’t be rated any less than a 3/5 using the incredibly complex happy time magic hour system.
We have another Great Lakes brew coming up, I’m curious to see how it is.
Merry Beercember gang, oh and feel free to use the comments to tell me how insane I am. I get that a lot. ;-)
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