6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottled. An almost pitch black beer with a faint red shine under a lacing brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of roasted malt as well as lighter notes of coffee. The flavor is sweet roasted combined with notes of cocoa, leading to a dry end with light notes of coffee. The body is a bit thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2007
at 18:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle - Pours amber with a one finger head. It smells mildly hoppy along with the expected malts. This tastes well balanced with a nice hoppy bite going well with the caramel malts. This is an enjoyable session brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2007
at 23:17
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
"Bottled during Mar 06." One of the first beers I tried when I began exploring craft brews, before I got onto RateBeer. Now I can finally critique it. Pours black, tan head makes a valiant effort to stay up. Smell is both straight coffee and coffee malts. Taste is more of a straight stout than a sweet one: some sourness pervades over the coffee flavor (and this may have to do with the age of this bottle). Dark roasty malts here and there, and a slight coffee aftertaste. Usually such a combination makes for a lot of astringent bitterness, but this beer avoids that. Sourness is a bit like tart cherries. Standard carbonation is not a good match for a stout. That’s the last of 8 Lakefront beers from a sampler pack sold past its date, but I hope to re-rate from more recent bottles soon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2007
at 21:25
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
"Brewed During Feb. 06." Clean beer smell, but a bit stale. Pours a light ale color, but pouring brings up a bit of skunk. Minimal head. Taste has some malts and bitterness, perhaps an English profile as suggested by the description. Nothing beyond that. Okay, I guess, but a bit of a bland choice to start my beer rating year.
Tried
on 02 Jan 2007
at 21:17
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draft pint in West Allis, WI. Forgot I’d had this one before, but glad to get a taste of a fresh pint. I still sometimes think this may have had some "steinbier" preparation, but no. Just a nice malty dark lager with notes of Irish red.
Bottled during Feb. 06. Rated 12/23/06. This has held up a little better than other old Lakefront beers I found in their variety pack. Pours a caramelly brown, little head but lots of fizziness. Smell brings in a nice amber malt profile with some German hoppiness. Listed abv is a tad higher than their other bottles, and may have helped keep it a little longer. This does have a nice sticky amber malt taste with a good bitter balance. It is starting to turn a bit papery, and the soda pop style carbonation doesn’t suit the taste at all. But I’ll just paste this in my album for now and hope to run across a fresher beer later.
Bottled during Feb. 06. Rated 12/23/06. This has held up a little better than other old Lakefront beers I found in their variety pack. Pours a caramelly brown, little head but lots of fizziness. Smell brings in a nice amber malt profile with some German hoppiness. Listed abv is a tad higher than their other bottles, and may have helped keep it a little longer. This does have a nice sticky amber malt taste with a good bitter balance. It is starting to turn a bit papery, and the soda pop style carbonation doesn’t suit the taste at all. But I’ll just paste this in my album for now and hope to run across a fresher beer later.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Dec 2006
at 23:20
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle. "Bottled during" Feb. Pours a bright orange-brown, thin head. Malty, slightly oxidized smell. So, it is a somewhat old bottle, and tastes like it: a bit oxydized and phenolic, but I’ll try to get around it. Has a biscuity malt profile if you can get past, sweet but not cloying. Hops did come across a touch more Germanic than English. This is a pretty okay beer, and I hope to catch hold of a fresher one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2006
at 22:33
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz. bottle, "Bottled during Feb." Nice dunkel smell in my tumbler, a bit of phenol perhaps, no yeasties. Darker ruby color than most stuff passing itself off as "dark beer." Column of bubbles supporting a thin creamy head. Taste has some toffee and caramel grains to it. Now, I let this sit for 15 minutes while doing other computer stuff, and found this somehow settled to a lightly carbonated, almost cask type texture. Not quite the coffee roast they claim, but still pretty smooth and enjoyable. Then again, this may be an older bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2006
at 22:48
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled at the Richmond Beer Industry Gathering 2006. Clear dark amber body with a small white head. Sweet spiced aroma. Strong spiced flavor with some light apples in the end.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2006
at 15:06
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz.bottle, "Bottled during" Mar. Nice malty beery smell when I pop the cap, always a good start. Color is closer to a brown ale than a pale, thin head. Smell in the glass shows fruity malts and some fresh dry hops. Taste goes steep into malts, Plenty of sweetness left over, barely matched by the hop load. A slightly different take on a pale ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2006
at 23:28
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pretty much like a macro, but I thought it was pretty crisp. Odd having a gluten free beer though.
Tried
on 24 Nov 2006
at 19:48