Lakefront Fuel Cafe

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

Color is very dark brown, nearly black as coffee, hmmm....that means something here. A super nice light chocolate brown colored head that faded to fast and has some spotty lace. Smell is faint of black coffee and darkened malts a bit chocolatey. Light coffeeish taste, dark and earthy and espresso-like, just lightly flavored enough for interest but is pretty thin and lacking in length. Some coffee-like dryness and very light hop dryness as well. Feel seems to light, I needed more body and heftyness. Its a little to quick to end, I wanted more body and longer lasting effects and flavors. It's a nice light stout, not bad, not great, so so, could be better I think.

Pours out like a big black stout should. Nice coffee aroma. Taste was a lot thinner than I thought. just didn’t have enough balls for me.

pours black with a thin head. aroma of coffee and roasted malts and barley. flavor is weak coffee and a little chocolate with a slightly bitter finish. They should have used more malt, coffee, and everything else to make this a better beer.

Deep, rich black with a thin, tan head. Slight coffee aroma with smoke, caramel, a little chocolate and a touch of piney hops. The body is extremely thin for the style, and really disappointing. The flavor is bland, especially for a coffee stout. The roasted character is incredibly subdued. There is some stale bread, bland chocolate and an odd assortment of earthy mushrooms. Really disappointing. I can only hope this was a bad sample.

Wish I could try this bad boy again. I had this awhile back when I wasn’t much into coffee beers... I’m sure I’d like it more now.

Bottle. Poured a dark brown with a two finger lighter brown head. Aroma was coffee and a hint of bitter chocolate. Flavor was dry and bitter (but good) with hints of both coffee and chocolate. Medium/full body with soft carbonation and a creamy mouthfeel. I really thought that this was better than most other people seem to think. Oh well.

Bottle. Aroma of grape and bittersweet coffee. Flavor of sweet malt with some fruitiness and nuttiness. Nothing overwhelming, but not a bad beer.

Black. Tan, quick-dissolving head. A wiff off coffee as I poured, nose also has roasted chocolate. Coffee flavor right up front, slight hop character in the finish-just enought to balance. Sweet and roasty malt and coffee. Pleasant aftertaste. Medium body. Good stuff.