Great Lakes Brewing Company Announces 2013 Seasonal Program

So they nuked the Lent season Doppelrock?

 

Oktoberfest in July?

 

What I want to know is why in the hell they have Lake Erie Monster (absolutely amazing), and they are bottling this Alchemy Hour DIPA (same exact style whether you call it Imperial or Double). They need to put out Market Street Wheat instead of another incarnation of the same style already in bottles. Market Street Wheat would be perfect, plus they wouldnt have to deal with competing against Hopslam and Double Trouble.

Just seems like a stupid move from a normally genius brewery. Poorly played, guys.

 

No dopplerock?!?? Well def interested in alchemy. I'd have to say blackout and rye of the tiger are my favorite with their Oktoberfest coming third. I would loooooove to see their farmhouse saison in bottles, that shit was amazing on tap!

 

I personally think it's a smart move if Alchemy Hour is true to the westcoast style. This beer has potential to show a whole new side of GLBC. It could be the ying to the malt forward yang that is LEM. I was hoping for some Alberta Clipper bottles, but Alchemy Hour has a ton of potential.

 

yea I was praying for Alberta Clipper too. Market Street is just a different style that OH has yet to make a great bottle of (Market Street was much better than Whippet Wheat).

 

Im excited for both

 

TRUTH! That beer was fantastic!!!

 

They have bottled it before. The bottled version of that beer was a shell of what was on tap at the brewpub. As a result those bottles sat around for months before finally disappearing.

I'd love to see that beer in bottles if it actually tasted like what they put on tap.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/73/45558

 

Dunno if that's the same beer...I've had Grassroots and Hale's back in the day, but the Farmhouse Saison they had on during Cleveland Beer Week was really clean in comparison (no lemon or basil tastes). Could be a tweaked recipe or renamed beer but wow it was 100% different & better!

 

No Doppelrock? Thats sad. However Rye of the Tiger is AMAZING on tap and im sure their other DIPA will be on par with ol' Nessie. I prefer west coast style DIPA's anyways.

 

I won't miss Dopplerock too much but I think they should consider bottling Tripel Dog Dare...just sayin

 

Good to know. As long as they have Nosferatu I'm happy.

 

Great Lakes was the first craft brewer I Really started to follow. I admire their style and quality. For me they have the World's best porter in Fitzgerald, a solid ipa and pale ale, a good RIS in black out, have a great overall lineup and they are probably the best American brewery that make the lager styles. Dortmunder and Eliot Ness are the best of their style, and some may argue but their Oktoberfest is the best marzen in the world. Throw in a nice Czech Pils(The Wright pils), and doppelbock and you have the best group of lagers any American brewery can offer. But with today's craft brewing world a brewery has to have big hoppy beers to be considered great. I don't think this, but I do love hops. I'm not sure GLbC should have dropped The Doppelrock nor Holy Moses as both were damn good beers and worthy of being in anyones lineup. That being said, Rye of the Tiger is top shelf and I'm sure the other is as well. This will bring a new group into GLBC and hopefully more folks appreciate this true world class brewery. But couldn't they have released these 2 new brews and still kept their traditional lineup in tact? Why not continue to release the same ales and lagers in their respective 4 and 6 pack offerings while introducing 2 of their creations to the craft world as a whole? Why not put these 2 new beers a rye beer and another big ipa in 22 oz/1 pint 6 oz bombers and ship them out in between releases? GLBC have proved they can release beers close together or basically at the same time and sell both. Christmas Ale and Blackout Stout are a perfect example. Both Arrive here on the same truck, the same day. I just don't think we've seen the last of doppelbock and holy Moses. I hope GLBC come up with a plan to make something like this work. Make your 5 year round beers in Edmund Fitzgerald, Burning River, Commodore Perry, Dortmunder and Eliot ness. Release your standard seasonals in conways, the doppelrock, holy Moses, wright pils, lake Erie monster, nosferatu, Oktoberfest, Christmas ale and blackout. Then release some of those pub greats like the 2 they are going to release. Maybe even 4 every year. I hope they don't do away bottling 2 of the old favorites. But the good news in all of this is people will get to see 2 new brilliant brews from GLBC and hopefully this is the start of great brewer becoming greater. I know one thing, I'd love to see Wolfhound Stout get its bottling premier. Now you talk about a damn good stout. Wolfhound is it. I say bring it all on. Let's appreciate the boys from Cleveland. They deserve it

 

I agree, it seems like each year Ofests are out earlier and earlier. To me they do not hit the spot until there is a crispness in the air. I can't drink one when it is 80 or 90 degrees outside.

I just picked up a Nosferatu from my local shop that got lost in the mix. A nice treat in January for sure.

I look forward to the IIPA in a month!

 

I'm looking forward to Alchemy Hour too

 

Yay, more IPAs!

 

I'm excited for their new ipas!!!

 

Are the names supposed to be a jab @ The Alchemist & Three Floyds?