Lakefront Fuel Cafe

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Sweet Stout
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Serve in English pint

Bottle from bleeng
Pours a deep amber with an aroma of ice tea sweetened with Sweet-N-Low with flavors of zingy trash berry. Watery tingle on the tongue. Coffee? More like fermented barf from a dirty trash can. Yuck.

Oily near-black pour, disappointing head. Upfront burnt steak aroma... black malt and hot milk...instant coffee granules. Some cinnamon, marzipan, and "old barn lumber" in the nose also. Mildly roasty and seriously tart flavor. Some feeble caramel malt. A flash of coffee in the finish, then green apples and grapeskins. Light, milky, chalky-to-the-point-of gritty mouthfeel. Charry and tart cranberry aftertaste. Punishingly tannic.

The last bottle of a wretched eight-bottle sampler pack where almost everything so far has been infected. No gushing so that is a good sign, but we shall see. Pours with a large, creamy brown head and a near black body. Aroma of coffee, minerals, toasted, smoke, newspapers and maybe a bit of sourness lurking (god I hope not). Quite acidic and obviously infected, but not full blown like the Snake Charmer. I can still drink this, but do not plan on finishing the bottle. Coffee, earthy, and quite lactic. They seem to have a real problem with this. Side of the bottle lists a Week 3 of February bottling date. Creamy carbonation. Ashy, tobacco, acid. Nope!

12 ounce bottle dark pour taste of chocolate, coffee, roasty, overall not good coffee flavor is bad smells bad

Aroma is sour milk, roasty, chocolate, not particularly good. The appearance is true to the style, deep brown/black, tan head. The flavor is roasted coffee, cream, chocolate. The finish is a mix of sweet cream and bitter roastiness, lingering. The body is medium/thick, creamy mouthfeel. Not bad, but not truly good.

Pours cola brown with a decent tan head and a chocolate aroma. It look good and smells good, but the flavor does not live up to those characteristics. There is a thin chocolate taste that a a bit too sour, and just a hint of coffee. Good idea, sub-par execution.

Served in New Belguim Goblet. Poured as black as a coffee stout would be expected to pour, with a nice mahogany head that lingered throughout the life of the beer. The aroma was certainly what was to be expected, but lacked a certain richness. It merely said "I am a stout brewed with coffee, and that is likely pretty much all I will taste like." The aroma was right. This beer tasted about how I expected it would: a decent coffee stout, but brewed from a relatively simple recipe. It wasn’t complex. It was relatively sweet, with the coffee flavor overwhelming any of the more subtle flavors. Overall it was a good beer, and if I’m in the mood for a sixer of a coffee stout, it’s probably what I would buy. But only because Peche Mortel doesn’t come in six packs.

Aroma is roasted coffee, but there was something off, perhaps almost fake. A disappointing thin mouth feel for a stout. Taste is watery, but does have decent notes of coffee.