Lakefront Cattail Ale

Formerly brewed at Lakefront Brewery
Style: Mild Ale
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

12 ounce bottle from local store. Can’t tell year, hope it wasn’t too old. Pours an orange gold with a small white head. Aroma of malt and grass. Taste is mild hops, citrus and some hops. Average at best.

Had at Lakefront brewery. Not a particularly complex ale but if you needed a easy drinking session beer and didn’t want a pale lager this would be a nice bet. Too bad it is retired. Serving: Tap

botle from apossibly aged 8 pack. medium golden pour, medium dose of caramel malt in the aroma, taste was mild malt sweetness, fruity with a hint of a sour twang

Bottle from a mix 8 pack. Says that it was bottled in late December (week 4) of 2009, so I don’t think it is retired. Pours with a hazed golden body with minimum white head. Aroma of earthy and a bit bitter. Slight spicy hop, and a similar lactic quality to the one found in Guinness of all things. Taste is slightly fruity, lightly lactic, grainy and watery. A bit of pitted fruit. Not much going on. Medium bubbles. Dryish finish with a touch of sourness.

A: Pours a nice light clear yellow hue with a tall foamy white head. Okay retention with just a spot or two of lace. S: Very sweet malty aromas. Lots of fresh bread with hints of cream of corn. T: Malty sweet up front. Mildly doughy with the corn coming through. There is a wonderful hop addition though to balance all the sweetness. Mild citrus notes with a nice bit of bitter floral and grassy hops in the finish. M: Light in body, smooth, sparkling carbonation. D: Good, for a lighter beer this one really packs a punch. Too bad they retired it cause it is the best Lakefront beer I have ever had. Beats all the light Macro swill by a mile. For what it is, a real solid beer.

12oz bottle. Pours an orangeish color with a huge foamy white head. Head stays at around 1.5 fingers. Nose is grassy with a light straw and toast malt note. Palate is fizzy and stingy with a medium feel. Flavors are grass and straw, hay, etc with some light toast and lots of foam and fizz.

12oz bottle. INFECTION!!! woooooo INFECTION! but its seems to be a positive thing for this beer so I shall rate it! The description of this beer is quite odd. Pours a very clear glowing golden with a medium foamy sudsy white head. Aroma is fruity, lightly sweet and tangy, some sour, touch of acidity and maybe some brett. Wow... It’s almost lambic-like, which make sense as its now a funky low-alcohol blonde ale. Flavor is fairly sharp, some acetic, loads of funky cheesy brett, light hard-candy caramel glassy sweetness, but mostly dry. Med/light bodied with larger somewhat corse soda carbonation, quite dry. Happy infection here.

Appearance is yellow, slightly orange color with mild off white head. Aroma is bitter, yeasty smell with a grassy, malt, sharp hops taste.