Looking back to my early days of craft beer imbibing, I distinctly remember a time when brewmasters used to say things like “craft breweries don’t have time to make lagers.”
For all the reasons listed above, flagship craft lagers were something of a rare commodity in the 1980s and 1990s, but that isn’t to say they didn’t exist. At one of the Midwest’s most beloved regional breweries, in fact, it was lager that built the business: Great Lakes Brewing Co.’s Dortmunder Gold.
It was also, I must admit, the type of beer I largely ignored during my early days of exploring the craft beer scape. Like so many other nascent beer geeks in the mid-2000s, my tastes were drawn toward the more robust and bombastic ends of the spectrum—I wanted hop bombs, Belgian oddities and dark beers rather than craft beers that reminded me in any way of the tasteless macro junk that surrounded me at college parties and backyard cookouts.
First, here’s how the brewery describes Dortmunder Gold: “A classic award-winning balance of sweet malt and dry hop flavors, proudly waving the flag for Cleveland and refreshing beer drinkers everywhere since 1988. A humble hometown hero, draped in a people-pleasing blend of smooth malt and crisp hop flavors.”
GLBC_Cleveland I survived on Dortmunder alone in college.
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