Lakeport Ale

Brewed by Lakeport (Labatt - InBev)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Hamilton, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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2008-04-13. Yellow body with a tiny white head. Rough grainy malt aroma, prominent alcohol notes that imply a greater alcohol presence that indicated on the label. Similar rough grains in the flavour, more bitterness than I’d expect from a mainstream beer which is actually nice to see, more of the rough lightly astringent grains as seen in the aroma. Average palate is quite carbonated, and actually pretty solid by macro standards. (Which admittedly does not set a particularly high bar!) Managed to sample it before it warmed up and its not quite as bad as some of the other ratings might suggest. It has very little to offer though, and becomes increasingly hard to drink as the glass goes on, particularly as it gets warmer and releases some of the... nuances... of the flavour. Ok thats enough... Bottle courtesy of MrManning, shared with Mabel

holy hell...........lakeport now has an ale. Wow, this is awful, tatses of ass. crappy corn, and adjuncts, just bad beer.

341ml bottle, 5% a/v Buck A Beer Looks reasonably decent, too carbonated and obviously not natural carbonation, but I can overlook that. Smells, weird. Like strange malts, musty smells. The taste is VERY similar to lakeport pilsener with just a bit more flavour and aftertaste. I seriously wonder if it is the same recipe but with the yeast swapped. Either way, its better then lakeport pilsener without the chemical taste, but thats not saying alot for it.

Thanks to MrManning, right, here we go: light yellow, zero noticeable carbonation, zero head: Damp, musty aroma, kind of like a wet beermat (if you know what I mean?) taste: Bloody offensive, chemical, sour, cigarettes, the finish is just hideous too, kind of like the acidic feeling you get in your mouth before vomiting, yuck **edit** 5 mins later, I am feeling ill and violated by this, to think I was drinking Hair of the Dog Adam 2 beers ago,

Bottle courtesy of MrManning. Light golden with a good sized white head that disappears quickly. Nasty aroma that my wife described as smelling like "the floor of a dirty bar". Yeah, that pretty much covers it. Thin, sticky body. Flavour of overcooked veggies, cardboard and stale malt, with a nasty cloying aftertaste. Jesus, this is bad. I managed to choke down three mouthfuls before dumping it, and I think that was at least two too many...

This is it... this is an "Ale" ? Golden colour white head... nothing new there. Swill.. skunk.. bad.. wet towel... I did not feel good after drinking it. This is an ill attempt at a "new" beer. Yes the Pilsner is better then this but not by far.

Better then some buck-a-beers, but nothing to write home about. Only thing positive about this beer is how it looks in a glass, but no one who buys it will ever pour it. (except ratebeer people of course)

341 ml bottle. i cant believe how bad this is. almost nothing good can be said for it. i really wanted this to be good so all the people who drink lakeport pilsner might start drinking this and switch to ale and that might lead them to good beer but switching to this would be a step in the wong direction. lakeport pilsner is far supierior to this in everyway. this is undrinkable swill that should never have been made. shudder, puke, drain pour.

Well this is it... Lakeport has finally made the worst beer in existence. I seriously can’t get over how bad this beer is. The initial taste is somewhat ale like but this last for about 1/4 second. After that you are hit with a taste that can be best described as liquid garbage. If you thought Lakeport red was bad you haven’t experienced anything yet. I have no idea why any budget ale seeker would buy this when Red Cap is available for $29 a 24.

UPDATED: MAR 6, 2008 Sparkling gold pour, unleashes a short lived white fizz. Wet paper aroma, grains, tin, pepper, creamed corn, straw, pale malts. Somewhat sweet grains, vegetable broth, corn and slate sugary malts leading to a dextrin bite in the finish. This is a dirty beer. Lakeport makes so many beers like this already, but they are all lagers. I guess it makes sense to "brew an ale" and sell it for as buck a beer too. As an aside to the beer review, the packaging of this beer is the worst I have seen in years. Bright red box with a purple/blue swoosh that clashes like none other. Just carrying this six pack down the street might get you jumped.