Lakefront Organic ESB

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

Bottle: Caramel color with light head and lacing. Nose is sweet with a candy-malt note and light husk, some comparable citrus hops to balance. The flavor is sweet and malty with a nice caramel malt note. Decent body and a respectable amount of hops in the flavor and finish. The malts and malty, the hops are hoppy. I like it!

Pours a nice copper color. Smells of sauerkraut Taste is ok with a little note of strawberry... not like an ESB. Barely any hop bitterness or hop aroma. Some decent creamy notes, again not like an ESB. An ok beer, but nothing at all special.

Pours a foggy orange brown. Nose is kind of a tangy woody, earthy kind of thing. Flavor is not smooth. Way too much zing on the mouth. Too much of a citric edge to it. The bitter is too much so and not smooth enough to enjoy. Feel is decent, but this one lacks any kind of smooth aspect to really be enjoyable. I just have to say I don’t really like it.

Certified drain pour. Nasty flavors, cheesy hops, burnt sugars, like you have when you boil over during homebrewing. Nasty all around. Horrid, horrid stuff.

Pour orange with a HUGE beige head. Seriously - the head was like 80% of the glass at first. When it finally settles doen, its very clean, mldly fuity (apples? maybe?). Stay mildy fruity sweet throu the flavor, too, with a touch of mellow bitterness and maybe some smoke, too.

Pours a mahogany with a quickly disappating head. Attractive beer. Nose is maly and bready. Flavor is pretty good, considering the brewer and score. I think the rest of their beers negatively affect this one, and what would be a decent beer from another brewer becomes a poor ESB from a less than respected brewer. Too bad. I would drink it again, but it’s the only one from Lakefront that I’ve had that I can say that of.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bronze color with a medium sized orange-tan head. The aroma was light sweet nutty malts and fruity hops. The flavor was bitter, tart, tangy and somewhat dry with moderate fruity hops and lightly vegetal malts.

12oz. Meh. Clear darker amber with white head. Aroma is mostly sweet malt, body is also sweet with some caramel and a sweeter finish. Quite a feat for all organic ingredients, but this needs a little something else.