Lakefront Beer Line Barley Wine

Formerly brewed at Lakefront Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

2000 vintage. Rusty orange color with yeast floaties. Smells very alcoholic with some sweetness. Wow, the flavor is disgusting with an alcoholic burn. Eeewwwww.

2000 Vintage - Bottling this barley wine unfiltered into a 6+ ounce bottle was a MAJOR mistake by the brewery. I carefully poured the contents into a glass but still had clumps of sediment fall out of the bottle. I let this beer sit and the flavor was more pronounced as it warmed. I was not happy paying $1.99 USD for five ounces of barley wine I had to wait to drink. Redeeming factor is bottle can be re-used for home brewing. It will be a tester bottle.

Pours like a Jell-o mold. While most people may think "there’s always room for Jell-o!" I have to disagree. Bad, orange color with about a 50/50 ratio of liquid to solid. Nasty. Very bitter tasting and some citrus. How this is any form of barley wine, or beer, is beyond me. It seems more like a bad atempt at an Abbey Tripel.

For such a tiny bottle.....I will agree with JasonG that it has an unbelievable amount of sediment...borderlined on having to chew it! Light Orange Coloring. Bitter....AWFUL!! If this is an example of organice barleys I’m staying home...

I’ve never seen this much sediment at the bottom of a bottle as this little guy has. Pours a totally cloudy orange color with no head at all. Aroma has lots of citrus, slightly bitter, smells almost like tang. Flavor is way bitter, some citrus notes, but really masked by its bitterness. Not as well rounded as really good barleywines, just pure bitterness, probably one of the more bitter brews I’ve had. Says 50IBU, but seems much more than that. An interesting brew, but not something I’d probably go for again.

Comes in a ridiculously small bottle but that is this beer's best feature because it tastes like it was squirted from a skunks hind quarters. If this is what organic barley wine tastes like then I'll pass. Smells skunky, sour, unrefined. Body is a copperish orange color with a super tiny coffee ice cream colored head. Flavor is unpredictable. It seems like this beer is just made wrong. One sip tastes like malt, skunk juice, and alcohol. The next sip tastes like cabbage, tobacco, and skunk juice. The only consistent quality is that everything tastes and smells like skunk juice. This beer is a looser in my book. Still, if you dare to try it, give the brew at least ten minutes to breath in the glass before tasting. Overall, I think this beer stinks.

Oh for God sake, why the hell would LakeFront bottle this Barely Wine in a 6.3oz bottle? That’s just RETARDED!
Pours a nice bronzy / orange body with a thick pillow of creamy white head. The aroma is malty as a bastard! Notes of honey, CARAMEL from start to finish! Small notes of plums, apples, and larger notes of black pepper make themselves known. It reminds me of going fishing when I was younger and having a cheek packed with Red Man chew! This beer must be immature, it’s not overly complex, it’s not very exciting, but I had expected it to tast like a bucket of piss and I was presently surprised to find that it is just a bottle of spittoon juice!
Why would a brewery release a juvenal beer that must be aged for any kind of major enjoyment? One would think that the brewer would brew the intended 2004 batch in late 2002 and let it age before it’s 2004 release……..?

Fairly light for a barleywine. Quite sweet with a nice tart alcohol bite. Smokey/tabacco and cocoa underlies the sweetness. I liked this beer contrary to many other opionions. Oh yeh.. 2000 vintage.