Great Lakes Brewing Company

Great Lakes Brewing Company is a brewery and brewpub in Cleveland, Ohio. The first brewpub and microbrewery in the state,[1] Great Lakes Brewing has been noted as important to Cleveland's local identity and as one of the initial forces behind the revival of the Ohio City neighborhood on the near West Side.[2][3] In 2015, it was the 21st-largest craft brewery by volume and the 28th-largest overall brewery in the United States.[4] The company was established in 1988 by brothers Patrick and Daniel Conway, both St. Edward High School graduates, in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood, located near St. Ignatius High School and the West Side Market. The brewpub and restaurant remain in their original locations, while production has expanded to adjacent properties.

Not to be confused with Great Lakes Brewery (Toronto).

Great Lakes Brewing Company
IndustryAlcoholic beverage
Founded1988
Headquarters2516 Market Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
United States
ProductsBeer
OwnersPatrick and Daniel Conway
Websitehttps://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/

The present site allows visitors to enjoy a glass of beer in the original brewpub which features a Tiger Mahogany bar from the 1860s, a Beer Cellar and the Rockefeller Room, named after Standard Oil founder and Clevelander John D. Rockefeller, who was thought to have worked in the building. There is a gift shop selling beer, along with apparel and barware. Tours are available on the weekends.[5] Since its inception, Great Lakes has also served as an incubator for Northeast Ohio brewers, with brewmasters at nearby Market Garden and Goldhorn Brewery in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood both being alumni of Great Lakes.[6][7]

Distribution

As of 2012, Great Lakes' products are heavily distributed in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. They can be found in Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, Southeast Michigan, Indiana, and west to Minnesota and Wisconsin, south to Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, and east to Syracuse, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.[8]

Beers

Year-round
BeerPack% ABVIBUDescription
Dortmunder Gold Lager 6/12 5.8 30 An award-winning Dortmunder-style lager which was originally named "The Heisman" after the famous football player and Cleveland native. It is GLBC's first beer, as well as the brewery's best seller.[9][10]
Eliot Ness Amber Lager 6/12 6.1 27 An amber lager named after Eliot Ness, the famed prohibition agent and eventual Director of Public Safety in Cleveland. Ness frequented a tavern which is now the site of the GLBC's brewpub, and also has a connection to the Conway family: GLBC co-founders Pat and Dan's mother served as one of Ness's stenographers during his time in Cleveland.[10][11]
Holy Moses White Ale 6/12 5.4 20 A Belgian wit-style ale, brewed with orange peel, coriander and chamomile, named for Cleveland founder Moses Cleaveland.[12]
Burning River Pale Ale6/126.045An award-winning American pale ale named for the infamous 1969 burning of the Cuyahoga River.[13]
Great Lakes IPA 6 6.5 50 An American India pale ale, brewed in celebration of the company's recent transition to an employee stock ownership company.[14]
Commodore Perry IPA6/127.770An India pale ale named in honor of American naval officer Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, whose contributions in the War of 1812 include the Battle of Lake Erie.[15]
Hazecraft IPA Hazy IPA6 (cans only)6.740A hazy India pale ale, named in honor of Ohio's contributions toward space exploration, brewed with Simcoe, Azacca, and Lemondrop hops.[16] Available August 31, 2020.
Edmund Fitzgerald Porter6/126.037A porter named for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a ship that frequented Cleveland ports and sank in 1975 with many Northeastern Ohioans aboard. Consistent with the Conway brothers environmentally-conscious objectives, the local Cleveland ice cream manufacturer, Mitchell's Homemade Ice Cream, uses the GLBC's leftover porter to make a flavor known as "Edmund Fitzgerald Chocolate Chunk." Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is often named in the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) as the most stylistically correct representative of a porter within the porter category.[10][17]

As of 2020, Dortumunder Gold Lager and Great Lakes IPA are also available in cans year-round. A 12-bottle variety pack containing 3 bottles each of Dortmunder Gold Lager, Eliot Ness Amber Lager, Commodore Perry IPA, and Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is available year-round.

Seasonal
BeerSeriesPack% ABVIBUAvailabilityDescription
Conway's Irish AleSeasonal6/126.325January–MarchNamed after Patrick Conway, a Cleveland policeman who directed traffic for 25 years near the brewery, and the grandfather of brewery owners Patrick and Daniel Conway.[18]
Bierwolf DunkelweizenLegendary46.625JanuaryA German-style Dunkelweizen brewed with cold-brew coffee, with notes of chocolate, banana, and spice.[19]
Chillwave Double IPALegendary49.080MarchA double IPA named as a tribute to Lake Erie surfers.[20]
Hazy IPALimited Release66.740MarchAn IPA brewed with Citra, Azacca, and Lemondrop hops.[21]
Mexican Lager with Lime Seasonal (cans only) 6/12 5.4 20 April–July A Mexican-style lager brewed with lime.[22]
Lemon Hefeweizen Limited Release 6/12 5.1 25 April A German-style wheat beer with notes of lemon.[23]
Siren Shores Passion Fruit Saison Legendary 4 6.9 15 May An ale brewed with passion fruit and spices.[24]
SMASH IPA Limited Release 12 4.3 50 June An IPA brewed with Mosaic hops.[25]
Lake Erie Monster Imperial IPALegendary49.580JulyAn unfiltered imperial India pale ale, named to honor Bessie, the monster allegedly living in Lake Erie.[26]
OktoberfestSeasonal6/126.520August–OctoberGLBC's interpretation of this Bavarian festival's namesake Märzenbier, a tribute to Cleveland's German heritage.[27]
Nosferatu Imperial Red AleLegendary48.070SeptemberAn imperial red ale named for the 1922 German film Nosferatu.[28]
Ohio City Oatmeal StoutSeasonal6/125.425OctoberAn oatmeal stout for the start of Cleveland's notoriously cold fall and winter.[29]
Blackout Stout Imperial StoutLegendary49.950November–FebruaryA Russian imperial stout named in commemoration of the 2003 North America blackout.[30]
Christmas AleSeasonal6/127.530November–DecemberAn ale brewed with spices and honey. Produced for only eight weeks, during the holiday season, it is the GLBC's second-biggest seller.[10][31]

Pub exclusives
A bottle of Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold pale lager beer

GLBC brews many beers which are only available at their brewpub and restaurant or are sometimes seasonally available on tap in some Northeastern Ohio pubs including Hop Madness and Moondog ESB.[32][33]

When the Cavaliers won the 2016 NBA Championship, the city of Cleveland's first major sports championship since 1964, the Great Lakes Brewery celebrated by bringing back its Belgian-style wit beer, renamed in commemoration of the end of 52-year title drought, "The Wit is Over." It was the same formula as 2015's "Wit til next year." The beer offers flavors of cardamom, coriander, green peppercorn and orange peel with a 4.8% ABV. [34]

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.[35] 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.[36] 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.[36] The brewery has set up displays at a number of sustainability-oriented events, including a 2006 "greener living fair" at Ohio State University,[37] and the "green pavilion" of the 2009 Cleveland Home and Garden Show at the I-X Center.[38]

References
  1. Mitchell, Sandy. Great Lakes Brewery. About.com Cleveland. June 13, 2008.
  2. Steven M. Schnell, Joseph F. Reese, "Microbreweries as Tools of Local Identity", Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 21, 2003.
  3. http://www.buffalonews.com/life-arts/one-tank-trips/ohio-city-clevelands-complete-urban-neighborhood-rises-20160703
  4. "Brewers Association Lists Top 50 Breweries of 2015" (Press release). Brewers Association. April 15, 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-25.
  5. Penders, Carl Francis (3 July 2016). "Ohio City, Cleveland's Complete Urban Neighborhood, Rises". Buffalo News. Buffalo NY: Berkshire Hathaway. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  6. http://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/most-interesting-people-2013-andy-tveekrem
  7. http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/11/much-anticipated_hub_55_projec.html
  8. "GLBC Distribution". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
  9. "Our Story - The Beginning". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-12-10. The first brew, a Dortmunder-style beer originally called The Heisman (named for the famed football player who lived around the corner from Great Lakes Brewing Company) was an overnight success.
  10. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/07/patrick_conway_the_man_behind.html
  11. "Eliot Ness Amber Lager". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2007-12-11. Named after one of Cleveland's most respected safety directors who frequented the Brewpub's bar during his tenure from 1935-1941 and, according to popular legend, was responsible for the bullet holes in the bar still evident today.
  12. https://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/holy-moses-white-ale
  13. "Burning River Pale Ale". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2007-09-17. Retrieved 2007-12-10. Named after the infamous 1969 burning of the Cuyahoga River.
  14. https://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/greatlakesipa
  15. "Commodore Perry IPA". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2007-12-10. This monumental India Pale Ale honors the hero from The War of 1812 who battled the enemy on Lake Erie.
  16. "Hazecraft IPA Launching Into Orbit August 31". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  17. "Edmund Fitzgerald Porter". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on April 15, 2008. Retrieved December 10, 2007. Named after the ship that frequently docked in Cleveland and sunk in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 with many Northeast Ohioans on board.
  18. "Conway's Irish Ale". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2007-12-10. Named after Patrick Conway, the grandfather of co-owners Patrick and Daniel Conway and a Cleveland policeman who directed traffic for 25 years near the brewery.
  19. "Bierwolf Dunkelweizen". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  20. "Alchemy Hour Double IPA" (PDF). Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-04. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  21. "Hazy IPA". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  22. "Mexican Lager with Lime". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  23. "Lemon Hefeweizen". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  24. "Siren Shore Passion Fruit Saison". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  25. "Smash IPA". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  26. "Lake Erie Monster". Great Lakes Brewing Company.
  27. "Oktoberfest". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2008-08-07. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
  28. "Nosferatu". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2007-09-21. Retrieved 2007-12-10. Named after the notorious German vampire from the 1920s film era.
  29. "Ohio City Oatmeal Stout". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Retrieved 2017-11-04. Dark and roasty yet light and smooth as a fresh coat of snow.
  30. "Blackout Stout". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2007-12-10. Named after the infamous "Blackout of 2003" that left the northeastern United States in complete darkness, but resulted in old-fashioned neighborhood porch parties and down-home fun.
  31. "Christmas Ale". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
  32. "Pub Exclusives". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2008-06-15. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
  33. "Pub Exclusive Beer". Great Lakes Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  34. Bona, Marc (22 June 2016). "Great Lakes Brewing Co., Hofbrauhaus get behind Cavs title". cleveland.com. Cleveland: AdvanceOhio. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  35. "Local Brewery Gives Barley To Farmers, Grain To Bakers" msnbc.com: NewsNet5.com, Feb. 26, 2009.
  36. "Unconventional brewery pours over strategies; Brothers push sustainability in Cleveland.(Pat Conway and Dan Conway of Great Lakes Brewing Co.)", Waste News, Feb. 19th, 2007.
  37. "Ohio State U.: Fair promotes greener living to Ohio State U. students.", The America's Intelligence Wire, Oct. 9th, 2006.
  38. "Cleveland home and garden show opens today at I-X Center, captures beauty of Paris", Norwalk Reflector, Feb. 7 2009.
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