One of the USA's earliest craft brewers, David Geary, learned to brew beer during employment at several English breweries, including Ringwood in Hampshire, southern England, before creating his own brewery back home in Portland, Maine.
He brews three year-round beers, which are Pale Ale, London Porter, and American Ale, plus two seasonal beers called Hampshire Special Ale and Summer Ale. Geary’s Pale Ale is a classic – full of body and exquisitly smooth, with robust malt flavours along with hints of zesty orange and a refreshing dry, bitter hop aftertaste.
DETAILS
Brewery: Geary‘s Brewing Company
Alcohol content: 4.5% ABV
Brewed at: Portland, Maine, USA
Serving temperature: 54°F (12°C)
Style: English pale ale
Colour: Bright copper
Dortmunder Gold is an American dortmunder-style beer brewed in Cleveland, Ohio, by Great Lakes Brewing Company.
This smooth ale with good balance and full body is typical of the robust export-style lager that became well-known in Dortmund, Germany, in the middle of the nineteenth
century, when seven different breweries making this style of beer at the same time.
A Dortmunder is normally less dry than a standard Pilsner, but contains more hops than a pale Munich lager, and it is stronger than either. This award-winning dortmunder, full bodied with a deep golden colour and a dry grain taste, is brewed by the Great Lakes brewery, which was founded in 1988 in downtown Cleveland . It's adjoining pub (before the brewery took over) is rumoured to have been popular with Cleveland’s most famous resident, the "untouchable" Eliot Ness, in whose honour the
Great Lakes brewery has created a wonderfully scenty, full-bodied, malty amber Vienna-style lager. A few of Great Lake’s other beers have won awards in national and international competitions. One of its other beers, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, named after a ship which sank in 1975 with many Clevelanders on. board, has won two top prices at the Great American Beer Festival. That beer is enticingly complex, with a toasty malt aroma and dry, bittersweet tastes of coffee and chocolate. Among the brewery’s seasonal beers, its Christmas Ale is much sought after, brewed with cinnamon and ginger for a festive spicy flavor, which has honey added for to boost its complexity and alcohol content..
DETAILS
Brewery: Great Lakes Brewing Company
Brewed at: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Style: Dortmunder export
Appearance: Deep golden amber
Alcohol content: 5.6% ABV
Serving temperature: 48°F (l9C)
