Lakefront Pumpkin Lager

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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I poured a 12oz bottle into a tumbler.

Appearance: Dark gold/light orange hue; surprisingly hazy but with visible carbonation; forms a small, beige, sudsy head which dissipates and leaves no lacing.

Smell: A light, sweet pumpkin potpourri with notable spice rack dustings and a subtle generic lager aroma.

Taste: Most pumpkin beers are ales, but Lakefront Pumpkin Lager is quite different in its approach to yeast fermenting methods. The bottle says nothing about how it is brewed, but the taste seems to indicate it’s a standard American lager brewed with pumpkin and other spices.

It begins surprisingly bitter with a taste that’s somewhat like saltwater, but not nearly as strong. It’s more strange than it is off-putting. Then all the spices and flavors come rushing in - a pretty tasty assemblage of nutmeg, cinnamon, a hint of cardamom and of course pumpkin. Not quite as sweet as your average "pumpkin pie" beer, this is more like a bock with autumn seasoning added.

As it warms the lager base makes itself known. I begin to taste a noticeable corn flavor, almost like high fructose corn syrup - a seemingly artificial sweetness and overly sticky texture for a lager. Not that this is OE800 + pumpkin, but a pumpkin beer recipe that probably would’ve worked much better as an ale. Something seems off, I can’t put my finger on it, but it’s not enough to ruin all the good aspects about the palate here.

Mouthfeel: Thicker and softer than your average lager. This is no fizzy beer, although there is a slightly dry aftertaste from the spice.

Drinkability: Lakefront Pumpkin Lager drinks like an ale with a medium body and surprisingly smooth mouthfeel and finish. It’s probably best drank at colder lager temperatures, though, as warmth seems to unmask the flaws. It’s not quite sweet enough to work as a dessert beer, although I could see it pairing well with Thanksgiving dinner.

Spicy and vegetative in aroma. Decent spice in flavor covers up the vegetables. Not too bad, really could do without the vegetables though.

Bottle from Bierkraft, Brooklyn, NY. An orange coloured pour with a medium off white head. Aroma of pumpkin and cinnamon. Tastes of pumpkin, cinnamon, spice. Very easy to drink.

Pours clear golden amber with decent bright white head. Huge aroma in my snifer of spice definitely clove, anise, cinnamin and some pumpkin. First sip leaves a little to be desired from at least the pumpkin and spice standpoint. Slight maltiness and a hint of spice. No lingering flavors at all. Great aroma though.

Pour out of 12 oz bottle is slightly hazy orange with nice bright white head, aroma has nice sweet notes of pumpkin, biscuit, and toffee, some nice hints of cinnamon and clove, touch of caramel as well in there. Taste is much heavier on the spice but has notes of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg for sure, hints of toffee and caramel, some sweet bread notes along with a touch of pumpkin, finishing slightly bitter, dry and spicy. I liked this!

Aroma - sweet pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg; Appearance - light copper, fluffy head, poor lacing; Taste - light malt front, balanced pumpkin flavor throughout, spice notes intensify into the back, somewhat spicy finish; Palate - slightly crisp, average body; Overall - easy drinking, not in-your-face pumpkin yet not bland either.

In my little hd mug. Pour is like pale lager but with a touch of haze and perhaps even a little darker. Smell is sugar pumpkin. Stronger somewhat rude personality. Does not hide alky well. Malty and sumthin going on here. Reminds me of some stronger aged high gravity beers. Almost irish in nature. Pumpkin is not pleasing in this brew. On style for a veggie spice brew. Does not have the texture of pumpkin pie, heheh

UPDATED: OCT 11, 2011 12 oz bottle from Total Beverage - Westminster. Nose is heavy on pumkin with light nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger. Crystal clear orange with a big pale yellowish head. Flavor is pumpkin pie with all the spices. Nice quaffable pumkin lager.

Pours a cloudy butterscotch color with white head. Pumpkin pie aroma. Pleasant test...cinnamon, clove, ginger and flaked barley. Some mellow pumpkin as well but this is more spicy than pumpkiny. Medium body. One of the better pumpkin ales I’ve had.

12oz bottle in a shaker. Pours copper with a thick, cream-colored head. Aroma of pumpkin, caramel/pale malts, a little bit of spices, and light hops. Flavor the same and average texture. Not the best pumpkin beer, but not bad.