Lakefront New Grist Sorghum Beer

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Sweet, buttery diacetyl and fruit in the aroma. Clear blonde body with a low white head that recedes to ring. Full on diacetyl flavour almost obliterates the underlying fruitiness. Very dry medium body with sharp pointy carbonation. Obviously not one of my preferred beers of the festival. Bottle sampled at GABF 2005.

UPDATED: FEB 12, 2008 Nearly colorless but has a faint gold tinge and a small head that completely vanishes in short order. Aroma is very weak but brings to mind a honey wheat bread and a hint of buttered crescent rolls. Taste is sweet, cookie malt, grains and peaches. The finish is the strongest part of this beer, a creamy, buttery finish that’s actually quite nice. After being very put off by this beer at first it grew on me a little, but only a little. It’s not bad, the palate is just so watery that it doesn’t seem entirely satisfying. I have no problem drinking it and would even enjoy it but I won’t go out of my way to find it again.

12 oz bottle. I know that some folks showed this "beer" some love simply because it was sorghum based, and maybe in an ideal world where I would be able to rate this beer "true-to-style" then maybe I would be able to do that as well. Unfortunately I can’t do that. Poured the palest color I’ve ever seen with no head at all. Aroma can be summed up in one word - butter. Tasted like I was drinking liquid marjorine. Very thin and watery as well as fizzy. This ain’t beer people. Run from anything that has sorghum listed on the label.

Coppery amber body, moderately sized fizzy white head that fades. Aroma seems like a Miller with caramelly and slightly lactic chocolate hints. Taste is sweet grassy grain with an odd slightly bitter grain finish. Also kind of a leafy "weed" character late in the finish too. It is not as bad as I expected overall, though, it isn’t very interested (aside from being gluten free). To me, it certainly isn’t offensive, aside form the awkward taste adjunct in there.

Pours to the clearest golden body imaginable. Looks like watered down white wine. No head. I’ve seen more attractive mainstream beers. The aroma is like a honey and peach concoction, almost like fruit salad, but it’s missing the pineapple. Nectar sounds like a good analogy. It doesn’t smell bad, just not like beer. The flavor is canned peaches and the juice with a dash of lightly buttered biscuits. Weird. I suppose, if I couldn’t eat wheat/grains/gluten due to food allergies... but then again, there’s gotta be something other than beer to drink (not like I could live with that). I understand the need for this beer, but why! The palate is watery and weak. They almost need to create a new beer style that is gluten-free beers. This would probably be pretty high up on the list, but... I agree with StewardofGondor. I gave a 10 overall because it seems like a decent attempt at producing a gluten-free beer.

Extremely clear and nearly white in color with a small splash of ammonia to tint it yellow. Honey whole wheat bread with oats on the crust is the first waft to register, followed by sugary lemons, low fat crescent rolls, nectar and sweet clover. Peculiar flavor, immediately imparting a watered down characteristic, but it spins into something that gets me thinking about lemon-flavored Propel fitness water. Palate’s remotely pathetic with an odd effervescent sprits, aligning the flavor to something now more akin to lemon seltzer water. Honey biscuit dough finish. Although the rating says 2.7, it’s not that bad - it’s just that the sum is worse than the parts. Hopefully the gluten-free group will be more pumped about this one.

UPDATED: OCT 1, 2006 Medium gold body with a thin white head. The aroma is waffles with some light peaches. The taste is nasty canned peaches along with a coppery and buttery finish. There is also some light glazed ham in the finish. I have had better gluten free beer, but this is a decent attempt. Thanks for the beer, MrFacto.

This should be interesting. Pours a clear light amber color, with a small white head. Aroma is feint, of light bubblegum, cherry notes. Floral and citrus undertones. Kind of artificial. Flavor is thin, just a slight hop accent to it. More bubblegum and a grassy hop finish. Nothing overly offensive here, just not my thing.

Golden color with a quickly diminishing white head. Aroma is mostly peach and some flowery hops. Sweet flavor of peaches and some interesting after taste that I cannot pinpoint (the sorghum perhaps)? Very interesting brew, nice mild flavor that is quite drinkable.

Bottle. Clear very bright golden pour with zbout zero head retention. Aroma picked up light fruits and some biscuits. More light fruits in the flavor (peaches with light cream and pineapple). Mellow and smooth across the palate, and lightly sticky on the finish. Felt more and more like a cider as it warmed. This definitely wasn’t bad, but it didn’t have anything that makes me want to buy any more.