Episode 120 - Peak Organic Maple Oat Ale
The Peak Organic company brews their beer with 100% certified organic ingredients. This beer is their Maple Oat Ale, which which uses organic oats from a company in Maine, organic maple syrup from a company in Vermont. This beer doesn't super-highilght any one ingredient, but does strike a tasty, clean balance, and is one you should try.

Episode 119 - Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold
We end our journey with Great Lakes Brewing Company with their original - and flagship - brew. Once called "The Heisman" and now lovingly referred to as Dortmunder Gold, this is a unique lager style beer from the Dortmund region of Germany. Since 1990, this beer has won 14 Gold and 1 Silver medal from the Great American Beer Fest and World Beer Championships. Is it worth the gold it's been receiving? Oh, oh my yes.

Episode 118 - Great Lakes Eliot Ness
The Eliot Ness is a Vienna style lager - a lager that maintains crispness while at the same time allowing some darker malts to make their way in to the beer. (Sam Adams Boston Lager is the most widely known Vienna style lager in the US.) This particular lager is named after Eliot Ness, the famous leader of The Untouchables, and it is both ironic and fitting. While Ness spent much of his career enforcing prohibition, he was also well known to appreciate a libation or two. As if that weren't enough of a reason to put him on a bottle, the mother of the owners of Great Lakes was Eliot Ness's stenographer! What's that? How's the beer? It would make Eliot Ness proud, we think.

Episode 117 - Great Lakes Commodore Perry
One of our "Great Lakes Brewing" series, we examine the Commodore Perry IPA. The beer celebrates an epic battle fought by Commodore Perry and his men on Lake Erie during the war of 1812. This IPA actually presents a nice malt nose, which doesn't necessarily accompany all IPAs, and that helps this beer along its journey to becoming an incredible beer. Wonderfully complex and balanced, yet still ending with a traditional IPA bitter, this beer scores quite high with both of us.

Episode 116 - Great Lakes Burning River
We're starting a series of four episodes dedicated to the wonderful liquid coming out of the Great Lakes Brewing Company, in Cleveland, Ohio. Mark Weinmann from Great Lakes was kind enough to drop a bunch of beer on us to try, so we're going to bring it to you. Today, we have their Burning River Pale Ale, a good beer to start with. Certainly high in the hops - almost to an IPA level - it still remains decently balanced. Check it out.