Lakefront Eastside Dark

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of coffee, nuts, wood, malts, cardboard, and metal. Poured brown with a hint of amber in color with a small tan head that diminished. Cloudy. Sparkling. Full of medium-sized particles. Flavor of malts, chocolate, coffee, nuts, roasting, and a hint of hops. Medium body. Average to lively carbonation. Roasted malt finish.

Eastside Dark is a most enjoyable dark lager. Reminds me of Leinie’s Creamy Dark, but Lakefront’s is far and away the more complete and sophisticated of the two. Good cocoa notes mix well with the various malts used. Aroma is slightly toasted nuts. Probably my favorite of Lakefront’s offerings, along with Fuel Cafe.

12oz brown bottle from The Lighthouse in Manchester as part of this brewery’s sampler 8-pack. Pours dark brown with ruby-red highlights and a half inch of light tan head. Smells like chocolate, caramel, with just the slightest hint of hops. Tastes chocolatey and nutty with smoke and fruit notes on the finish. Full bodied with ample carbonation helps make this dunkel even more drinkable. Very tasty - a really solid dunkel.

12oz bottle. Aroma: Munich malt, cocoa, light spice, toffee, light sulfur. Appearance: Dark reddish-brown in color with chestnut highlights. Light beige head was full and frothy with good retention. Nice lacing. Flavor: Rich roasted maltiness with notes of coffee, cocoa, and toasted nuts and bread. A bit of hop flavor at the end, but well balanced overall. Palate: Medium bodied. Medium carbonation. Overall: Nice drinker. Good flavors and well balanced.

Bottled. Pours a clear dark brown with a thin white head that disappears quickly. No lacing. Nice aroma with chocolate and perfume. Surprisingly nice flavour of malt, more chocolate, plus molassas & fruit and a clean finish. Very easy to drink.

This beer poured a dark reddish colour like you find in the dirt out in the desert. Nice tan coloured head. somewhat chocolatey maltyness was obvious as well. A nice beer overall.

This really surprised me with how good it is. It’s dark copper with a big, light tan head that slowly shrinks to a permanent 1" head. The aroma is very nice, grain, dark bread, crust, hints of chocolate, caramel, and pine. The taste is similar, mostly fresh, moist whole-wheat bread, hints of earth abd pine, very light hints of caramel, herbs, and chocolate. It’s zesty but very smooth, easy to drink, yet complex and full of flavour.

Bottle. Sweet aroma with caramel and faint roast, light plastic, aspartame? Pours mahogany with a short, ephemeral light brown head. Initially crisp taste, lightly sour and acidic with chocolate malt and faint roast. Slight caramel and a little less nuts. Watery but sticky. A really thin Dunkel, it’s true, but the particular type of sweetness makes me think more of German alcopops and Mischgetraenke.