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Booze Geek: Truth, Justice And The American Ale

Published Sun, 17 May 2015 15:00:38 -0500

By Dylan Gonzalez

Beer: Truth, Justice and the American Ale

Brewery: Great Lakes Brewing Company

ABV: 4.8%

Some time back, Joel Warger of Great Lakes Brewing Company reached out to me and thanked for my write-up on their Space Belgo. He told me to keep an eye out for an upcoming session IPA with a very familiar catchphrase on it. I was lucky enough to sample Truth, Justice and the American Ale at a new product conference through work, but I really needed a pull glass to make a decision on it. Luckily, that just so happened when the Great Lakes Spring Variety pack showed up at work.

Truth, Justice and the American Ale, a session IPA, was an amber color and showed light, but visible, carbonation. It had a medium head and left lots of lacing behind. It gave off a hoppy, piney and citrusy scent. For a session beer, the aroma was incredibly strong. I also detected some slight lemon grass notes.

The taste of the beer was mostly bitter and citrusy. It was hoppy and had some grassy taste to it as well. On the palate, it coated my tongue, giving it a bit of chalky quality to it. The carbonation was also present. Overall, the beer was a nice, if a bit hoppy, session IPA.

What to Drink This To:

The City of Cleveland (and really Ohio in general I guess) prides itself as being the home of Superman. Or rather the men who created him: Jerry Siegel and Joel Schuster. It would be only appropriate that Cleveland's number one brewery would create a beer in his honor. The pride is well deserved, considering that even the house of Jerry and Joel is a historical landmark now. Look, there's even a picture of me in front of it, wearing some embarrassing jean shorts.

Anyway, a Superman book is the only thing to enjoy with this beer. Recent titles such as Action Comics and the self-titled comic by Greg Pak and Geoff Johns have been receiving much praise as of late. But for me, the best Superman stories I have read are Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's All-Star Superman and Mark Millar, Dave Johnson and Killian Plunkett's Superman: Red Son. Both are alternate versions of the character and yet they succeed so well in capturing the character of Superman as well as being fantastic stories on their own. If you haven't read them, well, change that!

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