Lakefront IPA

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Draft at Capone’s. Pours dark straw with 1-finger clingy off-white head. Nose is deep piney hops, caramel malt, tangerine. Tastes crisp, smooth, and very resiny hoppy, with a solid malt bill that balances things out quite nicely. This one was very good.

12oz bottle, surprised alot by this one, its your traditional IPA color, but the taste is dynamic, very reminiscent of a 2hearted type taste, a tad more bitterness stays in the throat than with 2hearted but this stuff is pretty good IMO, must be pretty fresh. bottle conditioned also.

Tap at Barcade: Pours a hazy orange withan off white small, creamy head. The aroma is fresh with sweet citrus- caramel & orange, along with tropical fruit notes of peach and mango. The body has nice creamy dense carbonation. Some sweet notes in the flavor (swet as in tropical fruit notes) of peach, mango, caramelized orange notes, anda rounded, mild malt back with a long finish, which is only mildly resiny. A pretty good and well balanced IPA.

[Draft @ Capones] Poured an amber color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of pine, citrus fruits, floral hops, toasted malts, and buttery toffee. Taste of citrus fruits, pine, caramel malts, grass, diactyl, and finishing with a grapefruit bitterness. Unfortunately the keg this was served out of seemed to let enough air in to begin the butteriness.

Very nice. Copper pour with a quarter-inch beige head. Hoppy nose with citrus and pine notes. Flavor is mildly grapefruity with a nice caramel malt backbone. Very good.

Pours clear copper with a light beige head. The aroma is hoppy with green onions, pine, spice, some toasted maltiness and all of it has a very fresh aspect. Medium lightly biting body with somewhat sharp micro carbonation. the flavor starts hoppy and spicy, smooth and a bit resiny as well as embodying the aroma traits. The finish adds some citric aspects. A nice IPA.

Draught @ Capone’s: Aroma was sweet. Smells of caramel malts, cream, and fruity hops. Poured copper/amber in color with a small to medium-sized white head. Lightly sparkling. Slightly hazy. Excellent lacing. Lightly bitter, lightly sweet flavor. Tastes of Ringwood yeast (?), cream, hops, fruit, and toasty, sweet malts. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Fruity, hoppy, finish.

I had pretty low expectations of this given my memory of their gluten free beer. Amber colored, moderate head, decent lacing and retention. Aroma is citric and grapefruity hops. Medium bodied, moderate bitterness. Not that bad but nothing makes it stand out.