Lakefront Fuel Cafe

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

bottle. pours black, moderately carbonated. coffee aroma dominates, some caramel, but mostly roast. flavor has a twinge of sourness (intentional?), some malty front, and then lots of coffee in the finish. needs more booze, more body, or something else to stand up to the coffee and make this more than just a weak coffee-flavored stout. still, not bad.

Poured a dark brown with minimal tan head. I expected there was going to be a lot of good coffee in both the aroma and flavor of this beer. There was a little in the aroma, but the flavor was pretty disappointing. I’m not sure how to describe the taste. It wasn’t great. I guess I’ve been spoiled by Founders Breakfast Stout.

Surprised me. Poured a dark color almost black good head okay lacing. Aroma was of major coffee. Flavor was coffee, little sweet coffee and chocolate. Not bad not amazing. but not bad at all

Bottle. Pours a pretty dark mahogany black with beige head. The aroma is coffee, raisin, and Malted Milk Balls. The flavor is heavy on the cold coffee, though the coffee flavor is a much more appropriate one than usual. Unfortunately, there’s not much else going on. Some plain malt flavor, cookies, cheap prune juice. Mouthfeel is a little on the thin and fizzy side. Drinkable, but mainly because I like the coffee.

Pours a dark dark brown, mostly black color, nice off tan-brown colored head, great retention, ok lacing. The aroma was all coffee. The flavor was mostly coffee, light bits of chocolate underneath. The fullness of the flavor was amazing for 4.X% ABV. A slight bit astringent (slightly off, couldn’t place it), but for this ABV and flavor, I was impressed. Am surprised to see it rated so low within style, although I wouldn’t necessarily put it at the top of the class, fairly simple and one dimensional. A nice "little" brew (by my counts and against the grain) from a brewer that hasn’t won me over yet, go figure. (Re-rate a couple more times in May 07, still decent in my book.)

Soy sauce aroma. Pours black with a very thin brown head. Tastes of dark roasted malts and fairly well balanced hops. Faint light roasted coffee finish.

12 oz. bottle from the variety 8 pack - Pours a dark brown color with a one finger thick tan head. Very light spotty lacing. Aroma is roasted malt and coffee. Flavor is coffee and chocolate. Medium body. Not bad.

Bottle from Total Wine. Pours a ’jet’ black with a tan/brown head. Aroma of coffee and chocolate which is ’average at best’...taste is down right sad; coffee with stout sounds like a bad idea, and sure enough it is. Not a fan of this one, stay away.