Great Lakes Brewery
An independently owned brewery in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, incorporated in 1987. The range runs from year-round lagers and pale ales through IPAs to stouts, alongside a rotating programme of single batches released under the 7 Barrel and Tank Ten series. A second site, the GLB Brewpub, operates downtown on Lower Jarvis Street. The brewery runs two retail stores of its own and sells through the Ontario liquor system.
Beers by Great Lakes Brewery
19 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Great Lakes Brewery brew a broad range across 5 style families.
Across these 19 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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About Great Lakes Brewery
An independently owned brewery in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, incorporated in 1987. The range runs from year-round lagers and pale ales through IPAs to stouts, alongside a rotating programme of single batches released under the 7 Barrel and Tank Ten series. A second site, the GLB Brewpub, operates downtown on Lower Jarvis Street. The brewery runs two retail stores of its own and sells through the Ontario liquor system.
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