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Lakefront Holiday Spice Lager Beer 3.45 163

Lakefront Holiday Spice Lager Beer

Percentile
86
overall

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
1633.47/5.03.45/5.0Winter9.5%91.6Lager glass, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Timed to coincide with the holiday season, a very special lager is brewed with honey, oranges, and spices. This beer uses two pounds of honey per pound of malt in its brew, making it an exceptional fortified holiday specialty beer which will keep for years. The spices and hops balance the sweetness of the honey and malt to give this lightly hopped beer its perfect flavor.
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 Rciesla (4064), Exit 15W, New Jersey, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/515/20
Feb 8, 2010  
Bottle. Pours a very dark brown body with a white cream y head. Huge spiced aroma, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, anise, and incense sticks. Honey fruity candied fruits apples and cots but quickly taken over by the lush cinnamon and drying incense notes. Delicious a beautiful 3 step finish. Leaves a nice warming. I’m a fan.


 islay (490), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/513/20
Jan 29, 2010  
12 oz. bottle. Spicy, malty aroma features plum, cherry, sugar, candy, and tobacco scents. Very Christmas-y, but too sweet for my tastes. Pours a moderate to light brown with a slighlty reddish hue and a small amount of beige head. Clear liquid. Excessively sweet and fruity taaste. Tobbaco flavor. Unpleasant metallic underpinning. Various spices and orange flavors. Tangy. It started off off-putting, but it grew on me. Moderate body. Crisp and lively in the palate. Really a mixed bag of a beer.


 jredmond (1165), New Jersey, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/516/20
Jan 22, 2010  
Draft in philly. Poured a dark amber red. Aroma is cinnamon and njutmeg. Taste is sweet cinnamon, nut, malt, and slight alcohol.


burica2020 (18), Tinley Park, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Dec 31, 2009  
12 oz. bottle. Amber color with off-white head. Strong spice, fruity smell. Taste is quite good with kinda what you smell; spice, fruit and honey.


 WabashMan (817), Noblesville, Indiana, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/513/20
Dec 23, 2009  
I really didn’t care for this beer much at all. Spiced beers are a bit hit or miss anyway, and this was a clear "miss" in my book. The flavors were unbalanced and the spices overpowered rather than complementing the beverage.


 ChainGangGuy (2703), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Dec 16, 2009  
12 ounce bottle - $1.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia. Appearance: Gracefully slips out of the bottle a clearish, dark mahogany-hued body with no so much of a head as a sustained, thin, white ring of bubbles along the inner edge of the glass. Smell: Heady, aromatic combination of toasty malts, sweet-scented honey, fruity orange peels, and a very generous dose of various counter-top spices. Now there’s a nice, holiday-type nose for ya! Taste: Lusciously sweet blend of delicately toasted maltiness and gobs upon gobs of wildflower honey stolen straight from the tiny, stupid mouths of those dumb-struck drones and mindless workers. But this is all a nice counter to the heavy, flavorful blend of spices, with cinnamon and ginger being the more prominent of the mixture. It’s nice to actually have a winter beer that doesn’t try to pass off a weak beer with an all-too limp malt profile and nary a spice in sight as something ’festive’. Fruity tastes of candied apricots and juicy orange peels. Sweetish, spicy, warming finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-full body. Medium carboantion. Delightfully smooth mouthfeel. Drinkability: Why, bless my soul, that was all kinds of alright and one I’d recommend, provided you’re in the mood for something sweet, spicy, and warming. Generally, Lakefront’s brews neither please nor displease, being very middle-of-the-road for me, but this, this Spiced Lager, much to my surprise,


 kp (8600), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Dec 15, 2009  

Name: Holiday Spice
Date: November 21, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: hazy amber, wispy beige head, streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet and spicy aroma, lots of cinnamon, light fruityness
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, lots of spicyness, touch of fruityness, light balancing bitterness follows the spices
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4


 nuplastikk (1303), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Nov 21, 2009  
12oz bottle. Spiced fruitcake aroma. Foggy brown-amber color, head fades aways fast. Woah, big spicy alcohol taste reminiscent of some cinnamon nutmeg Xmas liquor concoction. Heavy duty cinnamon-clove taste. A rugged meady Doppelbock. I somewhat dig it for it’s Wassail-like qualities, but I can’t really say this is world class by any means. Big, outclassing most of it’s other Lakefront peers, this is a respectable beer



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