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Great Lakes Class of '88 Imperial Smoked Porter
Beer Discussion by SLOWRUNNER77
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I see the reviews for Deschutes have been merged into this one Great Lakes entry.
I know the one I had was brewed and bottled at Deschutes.
BA has them separate...300ish reviews for Deschutes, 150ish for Great Lakes, but both pictures are of the Deschutes bottle.
RB has em separate as well, much more for Deschutes, and shows a different bottle for Great Lakes.
The question is, are these two different entries or one?
If one, why arbitrarily choose Great Lakes as the brewer instead of Deschutes (rated at a 2.5/1 ratio over the GL version on the other sites)?
The difference in the beer seems to be just the house yeast. Enough. or no?
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10 years ago
SLOWRUNNER77
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I think I would have added Deschutes when I rated it, since mine was definitely a Deschutes beer (we don't get Great Lakes here), but maybe I was lazy. Idunno. To me, same as the Class of 88 Barleywines that have entries for all 3 brewers.
quote: Originally posted by kinger
Seeing how I appear to be the initial rating, I most likely was the one who added the beer to this site. The ones we had were released by Great Lakes and pretty sure brewed in Cleveland. Perhaps everyone else just used this one as it came up when searched for.
Makes one wonder why so fast?
quote: Originally posted by Airforce1
Pour Decisions and Bent Brewstillery are morginf under the Bent Brewstillery name only after a little over a year in existence. http://minneapolis.eater.com/archives/2014/01/03/bent-brewstillery-merges-with-pour-decisions-brewing.php