Lakefront Cherry Lager

Date: 03/15/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: hazy orange with a pink hue, wispy pink head, drippy lace,
Aroma: light sweet cherry aroma with a hint of wheat tartness,
Flavor: sweet cherry flavor, touch of woody cherry pit tartness, tartness lingers into a long finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

(draft) Lightly hazed apple juice body, creamy white head, nice lacing. Taste is medium sweet, mild, cherry, minimal lager yeast sourness. Taste is medium sweet, cherry, some bread. Light-medium body.

12oz bottle notched brewed in May. Poured a medium golden color, with a red tint to it, and an averaged sized white head. Aromas of tart cherries - not overpowering but present with not much else. Tastes of pretty much the same. Cherries are what this beer is about, but not an artificial in your face cherriness. Thin body.

Copper with reddish hues and a thin off-white head. Standard lager aroma is somewhat of a turn-off. Lightly tart, sour cherry onset finishes mildly bitter and bland. I was disappointed with this given its previous ratings. There are many better fruit beers out there.

This is the tastiest cherry lager that I’ve had yet... an easy statement to make, since it’s the only one I’ve had. It’s a very handsome drink, pouring a clear reddish/brown, highly carbonated, but with a wisp of a white head. The aroma is clean, smelling of sweet/sour cheeries, along with their pits. The flavor is caramel and cherry in harmonious balance. There’s a light, earthy hop bitterness in the finish that somehow satifies as the brew’s topper. Decent.

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Light ruby amber color. Smallish head. Light malt and cherry flavor. The brewery has toned down the amount of cherries since the earlier versions. The cherries are now very subtle and add to the flavors of malt and hops rather than distract from them. Nice effort.

Bottle from State Line. This one worked for me, with a hazy deep coppery magentaish body and 3-fingers of light pinkish head. Aroma was cherry, pale malt, some hopcitrus. The taste was semi-sweet to sweet, with the cherry flavor being natural and not phony tasting, with well balanced pale malt and hopcitrus. Fairly rich palate. I’d buy this again by the case without hesitation.

Head is initially average sized, frothy, off-white, mostly diminishing. Body is dark amber. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted bread, caramel), lightly hoppy (flowers), with a note of cherry. Flavor is moderately sweet, moderately acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, moderately acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Light but pleasant aroma and good balance makes it very quaffable for a fruit beer. Not very distinctive, but I like the fact that this isn't like fruity soda pop.