Lakefront New Grist Sorghum Beer

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Specialty Grain
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Bottle from Henry’s. Pours light amber in color. Aroma is somewhat like a Belgian ale. Smells yeasty and grainy. Quite sweet in flavor. A little bit of a cider quality to it. Not bad. Different to be sure. Aftertaste is a little funky.

Bottle from Total Wine. This beer is deceiving, the label is nice but the beer is 101% total crap. OMG, this was terrible. I took a sip, nearly puked, waited a moment, took another sip to make sure, and sure enough, this beer sucks TOTAL ASS. STAY FAR FAR AWAY FROM THIS BEER!! SHAME ON YOU LAKEFRONT BREWERY!

Taste and smells like apple cider and sake. WTF? Oily but thin, the head on this beer collapses instantly, the taste is of overripe green apples, a dose of sugar cane and then some rice and sake flavors. A terrible experiment.

I had a broken tooth once. It got infected and developed an abscess. It got bad enough that the abscess drained pus constantly. It was one of the worst things my mouth has ever tasted. THAT’S what this tastes like.

The aroma was fruity and estery with a sweet cherry character as the head formed. As the head retreated the aroma became more of a lightly sweet and fruity mix. The beer poured crystal clear pale straw with a white medium head that retreated in an instant but did almost lace the glass. The flavor was slightly sweet at first on the palate with more of the light cherry character and an odd spice lingering on the palate (sorghum?). The beer was not bitter, but it was not very beer like either. More akin to a cider than a beer. The body was light and watery and the carbonation seemed to not hold. Nothing too great here, if I was a Celiac I might opt for something else. 12 ounce bottle.

rating from memory, i couldn’t handle the yeasty, watery, bandaid flavor of this mess for too long. sick.

In the bottle from Beertopis. Thanks to bditty187 for the beer! Brent said that we would hate it. He was half-right. Steph could not drink more than one swallow. I, however, thought that it did not suck. Pours a rich deep light syrup gold color with a reasonable white head. The aroma was exactly like refridgerator biscuits, but not the top quality ones. That chemical aroma when you first pop the tube. As it warms, it smells a bit sweeter. This tastes like sorghum molasses. I grew up eating sorghum on my biscuits and by god, it ain’t that bad. Yankees be damned. The head dies pretty quick, and it is pretty much the ultimate in an adjunct beer: all adjunct! While I would never drink another, I also did not pour this one down the drain. So there.

Someone gave me this and said, "I know how much you like Lakefront Brewery". He must think that I am a complete idiot if his experience with Lakefront is this one beer. Citrusy and wacky. It’s probably something for which you could acquire a taste. I mean, you could certainly plumb the depths of the various layers of citrus and apple and all that. It’s simply that I really like beer to taste like barley malt and hops and I am prejudiced against those beers which do not.