Lakefront Organic ESB

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

12 oz bottle. Pours a golden amber color with a nice solid, frothy white head that has great lacing. Aroma is of caramel malts and earthy notes, almost dirt. Flavor is mostly caramel malt, with a good amount of bitterness. Not bad, but nothing great. A nice addition to the Organic front of beers. I have never seen an organic ESB before and it is a nice option. As an ESB goes though, I have had better.

Bottle: Pour a amber color with little head. The aroma was bitter malts and floral hops. The flavor was rather bland, nothing special, not much bitter.

Oh boy. Caramelized water with a bit of lawn clippings mingled in. Just what I wanted on a hot day. Sheesh.

This beer was better before it went organic. Now it is thin and does not have much flavor. Fairly malty with not enough hops to make it a bitter.

Organic Beer Tasting at Three Cellars Milwaukee. Very non-descript. Nice enough to enjoy, No real body and a little watery. more like a light lager.

Rather earthy aroma and flavor but a bit too much caramel malt in my opinion even though I realize its supposed to be a malty beer. I have to sample the other Lakefront beers as it seems pretty well crafted except for some metallic undertones in the aftertaste. I’m not an ESB fan but I bet the other beers by this brewery rock. I get the sense they put a lot into this one even if it didn’t strike my richter scale.

This is one of the better US ESBs that I’ve had. Copper, it has a medium, off-white head steadily shrinking to a thin wispy top with no real lacing. The aroma is mild but very nice. It’s fruit-bread, light caramel, candied citrus peel, hints of pine, caramel, and pineapple. The taste is similar with candied citrus peel, caramel, faintly sour light earthiness, a lightly spicey piney bitterness, and a bready finish. It’s light, perhaps a little too sweet and with a little too much of a candied fruit-caramel quality, but has persistent flavour, some complexity, and pretty good balance.

12oz brown bottle from The Lighthouse in Manchester as part of this brewery’s sampler 8-pack. Pours amber-red with a quarter inch or so of off-white head. Smells like caramel malt with hints of earthy hops. Tastes like caramel and nut with chocolate notes toward the finish. Medium in body with ample carbonation. A good example of the style for sure and quite drinkable. A solid ESB.