Lakefront Snake Chaser Irish Stout

Formerly brewed at Lakefront Brewery
Style: Dry Stout
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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This beer is really pretty decent, but still nothing much to it. I like some more complexity.

Bottle (thanks Jason). Pour brown black with a kahki tan head that dissipates to a thin collar. Aroma rye some soy and coco malt. Taste is more bitter rye bread and soy with some subtle roasted malt. Palate is thin slick and dry.

Pours dark blackish brown with tan head on nitro tap at Lakefront Brewery. Aroma has roast, coffee, coffee grounds, chocolate and caramel. Taste is slightly thin, but has notes of roast, dry coffee and caramel, some slight dark fruit and earth as well.

What a great Stout! What a great name for a Dry Irish Stout. Lakefront could have called it Pig’s Corpse Extract Stout, and I still would love it.

Aroma is of chocolate malt. Pours very dark with a foamy tan head. Taste is smoky malt and followed by a dry bitter hop and ends with a sour aftertaste. Not too good.

Watery like Guiness, but somehow better. Lakefront is a great brewery but this is one of their worst.

Chocholate in the aroma and a mix of chocholate and coffee in the flavor. Medium in body and a pretty good stout all around.

Pours almost black with ruby highlights when held up to the light. The head is medium with the pour and shrinks but retains it’s self well as a small tight head that leaves some lace. The aroma is roasty with some coffee and smoky notes, not particularly pungent but not faint either the aroma is nice enough. Very roasty up front and certainly dry, some burnt toast gives way to a weird anise character that sticks out like a sore thumb. This gives way to some smokiness and dark fruit that finish out the beer very nicely. The palate is pretty thin, but then I suppose it’s also very easy to drink, which I think was more what they were going for here rather than a rich viscous mouthfeel. It’s a nice enough dry stout really, although I must say that a year ago Des Moines saw the arrival of Sprecher’s Irish Stout which I found to be top of it’s class. This marked Sprecher’s return to the Des Moines market.... a year later they are back on their way out. I welcome Lakefront (new to the market) with open arms... and of the two Milwaukee brewers they are my favored by a long shot. But given the choice between the Irish stouts, this makes me miss Sprecher a little.

26-Jan-11 (12-oz bottle: Obtained in trade with footbalm, thanks Eric!) Cellared, but still tasty, this dry stout pours very dark brown with good clarity evident at the edges, and a thin, beige head that settles to a thin ring. Minimally sweet flavors of dark chocolate, cocoa nibs, coffee, and ashtray are reinforced by aromas of dark chocolate bar, milk chocolate, and coffee. The mouthfeel is dry and ashy, and the weight is medium-minus and a bit watery, but Irish-style stouts aren’t typically very weighty anyway. Carbonation is low to medium. A pretty good beer, but I admit I’m not a huge fan of this style.

Had at Lakefront brewery tour. Average dry stout. Wouldn’t turn it down but doesn’t stand out. Serving: Tap