Lakefront IPA

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

OK. this is a really kick ass IPA! The beer is a perfect example of what an American IPA should taste like. It has a fantastic balance of malt and hop harmony. Huge bouquet! Aroma is very floral and piny from obvious dry hopping. The smell reminds me of camping in the Colorado mountains in the summer. Unfiltered straw color with a creamy head. Taste is like grapefruit with a dash of sugar. This beer is a great session IPA. I knocked back a six with a buddy very easily!

12oz. Brown straw, slightly cloudy due to yeast at bottom of bottle. Apricot and lemon nose besides hoppy resin, little noticable malt. Flavor has golden grain in the middle somewhere, tingly hops first and a lasting bitter finish. Malt character is very subtle but a big part of the overall flavor. Complex and delicious! I just noticed that it’s 7%, it’s so balanced I never would have guessed that high. Would definitely go out of my way to buy. Yay beer!

This is a great IPA. Nice caramel amber in colr with a thick frothy white head. Aroma of citrus and pine. The flavor is well balanced between the caramel malts and citric hops. Warm and creamy mouthfeel with a crisp finish. Tasty. Thanks Adam.

12oz bottle from The Lighthouse in Manchester. Pours a hazy/murky golden-orange body with a good inch of off-white head that leaves a fair bit of lacing as it dissipates. Smells grapefruity, pithy, and piney. Tastes orangey, grapefruity, and pithy. Slight hint at malt toward the finish. Medium to full bodied with a generous amount of carbonation. Pretty drinkable. A solid IPA and definitely a good one for those who like citrusy hops.

A very tasty and hoppy IPA. Bottled in April 2009. Nice tangy hop with slight spice. Pours dark orange with little head.

The 2nd most underrated IPA I’ve tried. Almost all the India Pale Ale’s I love are between 6.5-7 %. This is the perfect session beer for me. The most toned down among my favorite IPA’s but unique enough to drink regularly. I sincerely love this beer.

On tap at Benno’s. Hazy, almost cloudy-looking amber body. Hard to tell because of the dim lights. Full-sized creamy off-white head. Aroma is hard to tell, but there is some rindy pine and caramel in there. Taste has sweet resiny pine and grapefruit. A full load of hops in every mouthfull. Seems to be very sweet after a while... a lot of caramel malt, and some tropical fruit notes. Full body and sticky, but like I said, perhaps a bit sweet. Pretty typical in terms of a full IPA, but also pretty good. If I close my eyes and sip, its hard to imagine that this is from LF.

Served with a very nice, large, foamy and frothy, off-white head and good lace. Color is a hazy medium amber. Aroma is a little malty and lots of fresh hops. Flavor is firstly - fresh, chewy hops on top of a little caramel malt. Good beer. Not too sweet; just enough to stand up to the hops. Great carbonation and mouth. Nice finish too. Don’t notice the alcohol until the very end of the finish. Perhaps a session beer. I like this one a lot!