Lakefront Cherry Lager

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Sampled on 4/7/2009. This fruit beer pours a medium orange gold color with a pinkish tinge. Medium sized white foamy head, with good retention. The aroma is wheat and cherry. A medium bodied fruit beer. The malts are wheaty and grainy, with a semi sweet cheery flavor. The hops are spicy. The fruit flavor is rather nice, not too over the top, overly sweet or artificial tasting. Lively carbonation. Decent balance. Nice refreshing beer. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet, with a touch of cheery coughdrop.

Bottle: Poure with an energetic fizziness that settled into a 1/4-inch firm cover of tight bubbles over an orange-reddish body. The aroma is sour and medicinal. If you like sour cherries, you’ll like this beer. Their presence is quite evident in this puckeringly tart brew. Fun beer on a crisp fall afternoon watching football. (#3148, 10/21/2007)

What the... Pours a nice golden color with little head. No real *wham* of cherries on the nose, just some vague malt. The taste... the taste... I just don’t know. There’s some malt but primarily a stagering sweetness. It’s a fruit sweetness, but I’m not sure it’s only cherry; maybe it has some apple too. It didn’t really float my boat.

2004 bottle compliments of Footbalm. Pours a ruddy auburn with some deeper brownish-yellow tinges and a beige head. Aroma of lightly tart cherries, some pungent yeast notes, hint of balsamic vinegar, and some dusty old hops notes. Flavor is very dry to begin, with a small dose of tart cherries. You can tell right away that the brewers took care not to go overboard with this one. Virtually no sweetness to it, with plenty of crisp, lightly sour lager yeast. Medium-light body, thinning on the end. Overall, a well-made, balanced fruit beer, but it suffers from the heavy filtration, seems a little bit lifeless. If the yeast was left in the bottle, this might truly be a very complex beer. As it is now, it is a crisp, clean lager with a firm tart cherry base.

Bottle poured a hazy ruby with a small lingering light pink head. Aromas of cherry, bread and light carmel. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of sour pie cherries, bread and light carmel with a crisp lingering cherry finish.

Bottle. Blushing amber. Ruddy tinge. Aroma is soft tart cherry, malt, and light grains. Taste is cherry pie. Almost exactly like cherry pie. Cherry notes, doughy, bready malts and some sweet malts. Body is spritzy and well carbonated. Light-medium overall feel to this. There some astringency due to the cherries. Finishes like cherry pie, again. Some doughy malts, cherries and maybe an artificial sweetness. Not bad, though.

Savannah, Ga - Whitemarsh Beverages - 12 oz bottle - part of a 8-pack variety sampler pack. Dark orange, slightly murky pour with a sticky white head. Pleasant sour cherry aroma. Hints of sour cherries in the flavor as well which are actually quite natural tasting and present a nice solid sourness. Mouthfeel is thick enough. One dimensional, but not bad at all.

Bottle. Poured a clear medium orange color with a tenacious off white head. Smelled of tart cherry, a bit of hay, and subdued brown sugar. Light to medium bodied and delicately sweet up front with a light tart finish. I tasted tart cherry, pale malts, and a dash of confectioners sugar. Not bad.