Lakefront IPA

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

This one was just like how I like my IPAs... cheap. Marked down to 98 cents at BOTW. Small off-white head with a amber body. Aroma is sweet, grapefruit, light orange/floral. Taste is sweet, grapefruit, some caramel, lemon. Medium body, some acidity.

Bottle:   Dirty orange, opaque, moderate to large white head, foamy, nice lacing.   Citrus zest, soft pine and hops on the nose.   Quite the citrusy hop flavor on the tongue.   This one I like.   Good hop presense, not overly done.   Has a mild sweetness about it too.   Clean finish, lingering citrus hop bitterness.   Moderate to full bodied, slightly oily mouthfeel.   This is my kind of IPA.

Pours an attractive murky orange with a sufficient but thin head. Typical Centennial hop aroma of citrus and grapefruit. Familiar, but pretty drinkable. Good IPA.

Pours a hazy golden almost orange color with a big fluffy white head. Aroma is citrusy and has some notes of pine sap and just a touch of mineral oddness. Boy the aroma had me going there I really thought this would taste awesome, not that it tastes bad, in fact it’s good, just not as good as it smells. The flavor here is all kinds of grassy hops and plenty enough bitterness, with a nice caramel malty backbone. This of course sounds pretty good, but the flavor seems while hop driven just a little weak all the hops seem either solely for bitterness or just plain grassy, there just isn’t a lot of depth to the hop character on this one which is sad because it could be brilliant with just a little tweaking. There is a little bit of cloying sweetness in the malt character too, which again I normally don’t like but if there were more raw hop flavor to this one I think the malt of this one would work in very well. I would absolutely love to try this as fresh as possible to see it in its full potential. I think it’s how close this one gets to greatness but just falls short that almost makes me more disappointed than if it would have just sucked. I’m giving it a good score though because I generally like everything about this beer, it could just be so much more. Oh yeah... not a trace of that 7% shows up, I was shocked when I saw the abv.

Pours golden amber with plenty of sediment. Aroma is moderately hoppy with some spice and citrus. A little piney. Very little hop up front on flavor. A little sweet. Skunky bitterness on the back end.

Might be stale. Cloudy orangeish color and a foamy thick offwhite head. Some initial hops in the aroma but flattens out with an almost plasticlike odor. Taste is similar. Not impressed.

Bottle. Poured a dark golden color with an off white head. Aroma was faint floral notes, spruce, and pine. Flavor was weak for an IPA. Weak citrus and pine notes. Medium body and some carbonation. Not what I was expecting for a good IPA.

2009/10/12 from The Keg - Pours bright golden with a mostly receding white head and floaties. Notes of sour citrus, mango, and hop resin. Full bodied and lightly resinous with lively carbonation.