Great Lakes Brewing Company

 

Great Lakes Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great Lakes Brewing Company

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Great Lakes Brewing Company
Location	2516 Market Avenue Cleveland, Ohio United States
Coordinates	41°29′4.04″N 81°42′15.81″W / 41.4844556°N 81.7043917°W / 41.4844556; -81.7043917 (GLBC)Coordinates: 41°29′4.04″N 81°42′15.81″W / 41.4844556°N 81.7043917°W / 41.4844556; -81.7043917 (GLBC)
Year opened	1988
Active beers
Name Type Burning River Pale Ale American Pale Ale Commodore Perry IPA India Pale Ale Dortmunder Gold Lager Dortmunder-style Lager Edmund Fitzgerald Porter Porter Eliot Ness Amber Lager Lager
Seasonal beers
Name Type Conway's Irish Ale Ale Holy Moses White Ale Ale Prohibition Pils Pilsener Oktoberfest Märzen Christmas Ale Spiced Beer Blackout Stout Imperial Stout Nosferatu Ale

Great Lakes Brewing Company is a Cleveland, Ohio-based regional brewing and restaurant company which

 has been in operation since 1988. The brewery has been cited as important to Cleveland's local identity.^[1]

 Great Lakes Brewing Company is not to be confused with the microbrewery Great Lakes Brewery,

 located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Origins

Established by brothers Patrick and Daniel Conway, Great Lakes Brewing Company started out as the

 first brewpub and microbrewery in the state of Ohio,^[2] remaining at their original location, though

 expanded to several adjoining properties. The brewery and restaurant are located in the Ohio City

 neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio across the street from St. Ignatius High School and the

 West Side Market. The Jesuits at St. Ignatius have blessed the brewing vats.^{[citation needed]}

Distribution

Great Lakes' products can be found increasingly throughout the Midwest, with heavy distribution

 in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, though the beers can also be found throughout metro Columbus,

metro Detroit and Southeast Michigan, Indiana, and are popular in Chicago. Great Lakes beers can

 be found as far west as Minnesota, as far south as North Carolina and as far east as Rochester, NY,

 Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. ^[3]

Beers

Always available beers

Beer Name	Description	ABV	IBU
Burning River Pale Ale	Named after the infamous burning of the Cuyahoga River in 1969.[4]	6.0	45
Commodore Perry India Pale Ale[5]	Named after American Naval Officer Oliver Perry for his contributions to the War of 1812 on Lake Erie.[6]	7.5	80
Dortmunder Gold	Great Lakes' first beer, is a Dortmunder-style beer originally named The Heisman after the famous football player and Cleveland native.[7]	5.8	30
Edmund Fitzgerald Porter	Named for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald a ship that frequented Cleveland and sunk in 1975 with many Northeastern Ohioans aboard.[8]	5.8	37
Eliot Ness Amber Lager	Named after Eliot Ness, the famed prohibition agent and later Director of Public Safety in Cleveland[9]	6.2	35

Seasonal Beers

Beer	Pack	% ABV	IBU	Availability	Description
Nosferatu	4	8.0	75	September-October	Named for the 1920s German movie Nosferatu.[10]
Blackout Stout	4	9.0	85	February-March	Commemorating the 2003 North America blackout.[11]
Conway's Irish Ale	6	6.5	25	January-April	Named after Patrick Conway, a Cleveland policeman who directed traffic for 25 years near the brewery, and the grandfather of Patrick and Daniel Conway, the owners of the Great Lakes Brewing Company.[12]
Christmas Ale	6	7.5	40	November-December	Produced only during the holiday season.[13]
Oktoberfest	6	6.5	20	July-October	GLBC's interpretation of this Bavarian festival's namesake Märzenbier, in tribute to Cleveland's German heritage.[14]
Holy Moses White Ale	6	5.4	30	April-July	A Belgian Wit, named for the City of Cleveland's founder, Moses Cleaveland[15]
Lake Erie Monster	4	9.1	72	May-July	An unfiltered Imperial India Pale Ale, named to honor Bessie, the monster allegedly living in Lake Erie.[16]

2516 Series

Beer Name	Description	ABV	IBU
Lake Erie Monster	Imperial India Pale Ale	9.0%	92
Barrel-Aged Blackout Stout	Stout	9.0%	85

Pub Exclusives

A bottle of Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold pale lager beer

Great Lakes Brewing Company brews many beers which are only available at their brewpub and

 restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio; or sometimes available from draft kegs in other NorthEastern

 Ohio pubs, and not regularly bottled for mass market distribution.^[17]

What is On Tap

Great Lakes Brewing Company publishes what is currently on-tap at their brewpub and restaurant

 on their web site.^[18]

Quitness Beer

In response to LeBron James on The Decision, Great Lakes Brewing Company produced a limited

 time beer named Quitness, referring to James leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers.^[19]

Sustainability

Great Lakes Brewing Company has undertaken a number of initiatives to promote sustainability,

 including recycling promotional materials to create fuel for heating an outdoor structure, the use

of straw-bale construction (incidentally the first straw-bale structure in Cleveland), the composting

 of leftovers from the brewery's restaurant, and the use of local and organic food. The brewery

also provides barley left over from the brewing process to local farmers for use as feed and to

local bakers who use it to produce bread and pretzels.^[20] In addition, the delivery trucks are

 equipped to use biodiesel and are fueled with left-over vegetable oil from the restaurant. The

brewery also uses outside air for cooling during winter months, rather than conventional

refrigeration units.^[21] The organization is growing, with 5800 members in 2008.

Great Lakes Brewing Company also hosts the meetings of Entrepreneurs for Sustainability,

 a business network in the Greater Cleveland area focusing on sustainability and

 entrepreneurship.^[21] The brewery has set up displays at a number of sustainability-oriented

 events, including a 2006 "greener living fair" at Ohio State University,^[22] and the "green

 pavilion" of the 2009 Cleveland Home and Garden Show at the I-X Center.^[23]

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