Episode 118 – Great Lakes Eliot Ness

The Eliot Ness is a Vienna style lager – a lager that maintains crispness while at the same time allowing some darker malts to make their way in to the beer. (Sam Adams Boston Lager is the most widely known Vienna style lager in the US.) This particular lager is named after Eliot Ness, the famous leader of The Untouchables, and it is both ironic and fitting. While Ness spent much of his career enforcing prohibition, he was also well known to appreciate a libation or two. As if that weren’t enough of a reason to put him on a bottle, the mother of the owners of Great Lakes was Eliot Ness’s stenographer! What’s that? How’s the beer? It would make Eliot Ness proud, we think.