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Pompous Ass English Pale Ale: Great Lakes Brewery – A Pompous Review

I’ve reviewed three other brews from Great Lakes Brewery, so I won’t say much about the Etobicoke brewery here. If you want to read more about the brewery, check my previous GLB reviews for some information. Although Great Lakes Brewery has won several awards, both for its brews and the brewery itself, the beer I’m reviewing today, their Pompous Ass English Pale Ale, has been ignored at both the provincial and national craft beer award level.

As its name suggests, this beer is in the style of an English pale ale. I’ll be enjoying mine cold, but this is a beer you may want to enjoy warm in order to get the full English ale experience. Now, tell your butler to get your pint glass ready: “It’s time for the tasting, Jeeves.”

Great Lakes Brewery: Pompous Ass English Pale Ale – First Sip

Pompous Ass English Ale pours a cloudy amber colour with a thin layer of foam that sticks around at the top of my glass. I smell citrus mixed with a tea-like acridness as I take my first sip. This beer has a well-balanced sweet to bitter ratio that favours bitterness on the finish. With its low carbonation level, just enough to keep it bubbly, Pompous Ass offers a very smooth mouthfeel, creating a base for its balanced flavour.


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Great Lakes Brewery: Pompous Ass English Pale Ale – Last Sip

This brew has a lot of flavour, so keep it away from your lager-only friends. Unlike other beers that have this much flavour, Pompous Ass has a surprisingly low 4.2% ABV rating. This is a light beer in disguise.

I left the final third of my beer to go warm. I found that its predominantly bitter flavour became slightly more pronounced. Aside from that, the flavour didn’t change much. Best to drink this beer from a glass so that you can fully appreciate its aroma and flavour.

Michael Bedford
Michael Bedford
Under intense scrutiny by the Temporal Authorities, I was coerced into actualizing my capsule in this causality loop. Through no fault of my own, I am marooned on this dangerous yet lovely level-four civilization. Stranded here, I have spent most of my time learning what I can of the social norms and oddities of the Terran species, including how to properly use the term "Hipster" and how to perform a "perfect pour." Under the assumed name of "Michael Bedford," I have completed BA's with specialized honours in both theatre studies and philosophy, and am currently saving up for enough galactic credits to buy a new--or suitably used--temporal contextualizer ... for a friend.
A tasty beer with a surprisingly low alcohol rating!Pompous Ass English Pale Ale: Great Lakes Brewery - A Pompous Review