Lakefront Snake Chaser Irish Stout

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Dry Stout
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Thanks to Darkover for the trade. Lakefront is one of those brewers where all their beers are decent but nothing really stands out. This Stout is along those parameters. Dark brown color (not quite opaque) with a medium thin light brown head. Thin and sticky lacing. The aroma is nice and roasty with coffee and cocoa. Medium-bodied (just a little thin for the style) with lots of coffee and a little chocolate in the flavor. The finish is dry and mildly roasty. Overall a fair offering. The components for an exeptional Dry Stout are all here, it just needs a little more oomph.

A roasty Guinness-like stout from the excellent Lakefront Brewery. Quite dry with some coffee notes and a hint of dark chocolate. An enjoyable stout with some noticeable bitterness. Fairly thick. Good.

Pours a very dark black with a very small head. The aroma has a nice roast and the flavor puts up a nice bit of anise. This is a bit like eating a spiced molasses cookie. Not a bad little stout.

Very dark brown body, frothy head. Roasty, minerally aromas. Roasty, well balanced flavors. Creamy light to medium mouthfeel. This is exactly what it tries to be and gets points for that. Unfortunately, the dry Irish stout does little to excite anyone's palate these days.

This beer came to me in my beer club. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a medium sized dark brown head. The aroma was dry roasty and toasty malts. The flavor was dryish roasty malts with an element reminiscent of malted milk balls. The beer turned slightly sweet towards the finish. The body was fairly thick and smooth. Nice.

Benevolent stouty pour with forgiving beige head. Mouthfeel was thin for the style but the flavor still managed to come throug--albeit in a session-y manner. Tasty snack for less than 6 for a 6-pack.

Bottle. Black colour with a medium brown head. The aroma is of vanilla, chocolate and roasted malt. The taste is roasted, vanilla and chocolate, a bit sweet. Medium body with a light dry finish.

Bottle from Beer World of Largo, FL. <P> Aroma is full of roastey and burnt malts. Coffee is big as well and a slight chocolate sweetness. Black with a diminishing two finger thick mocha head. Fore is thin and watery, but some coffee and roasted malt pops out but it, naturally, comes off as watery coffee. Finish is a bit tinny as well, but it has a nice bitterness that lingers and while it needs to be a lot thicker it has the base flavor down...it just needs a lot more concentration of that flavor.