Lakefront Organic ESB

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Organic Beer Tasting at Three Cellars Milwaukee. Very non-descript. Nice enough to enjoy, No real body and a little watery. more like a light lager.

Rather earthy aroma and flavor but a bit too much caramel malt in my opinion even though I realize its supposed to be a malty beer. I have to sample the other Lakefront beers as it seems pretty well crafted except for some metallic undertones in the aftertaste. I’m not an ESB fan but I bet the other beers by this brewery rock. I get the sense they put a lot into this one even if it didn’t strike my richter scale.

This is one of the better US ESBs that I’ve had. Copper, it has a medium, off-white head steadily shrinking to a thin wispy top with no real lacing. The aroma is mild but very nice. It’s fruit-bread, light caramel, candied citrus peel, hints of pine, caramel, and pineapple. The taste is similar with candied citrus peel, caramel, faintly sour light earthiness, a lightly spicey piney bitterness, and a bready finish. It’s light, perhaps a little too sweet and with a little too much of a candied fruit-caramel quality, but has persistent flavour, some complexity, and pretty good balance.

12oz brown bottle from The Lighthouse in Manchester as part of this brewery’s sampler 8-pack. Pours amber-red with a quarter inch or so of off-white head. Smells like caramel malt with hints of earthy hops. Tastes like caramel and nut with chocolate notes toward the finish. Medium in body with ample carbonation. A good example of the style for sure and quite drinkable. A solid ESB.

Nothing much to this beer. Poured to a hazy copper-amber color with little head or lacing. Aroma tried to be a mix of malty fruit and hops, but was very faint. Mouthfeel a bit bland for this fairly thin-bodied beer, little noticeable taste, and just a so-so finish. While there was nothing to actually dislike about this beer, there was nothing much that stuck out either, and it has a lot of growing up to do to become a bitter.

Moving along in my experiences with organic beers this one was not as great as i had hoped. It was bitter but it still had that sweet organic finish at the end which wasn’t a good complement for the style.

Bottle. Very little going on here. Medium amber body with an average size, off-white head that disipates. The aroma is mostly malty with smells of toast and caramel. Some notes of flowers are detectable. The flavor is mostly sweet with a lightly bitter finish. Medium body with a watery texture. Plenty of carbonation. Nice enough balance, but a run-of-the-mill ESB.

Bottle: poured dark copper color. Initial taste is nice with a slight bitterness, but then not much. Not much body and a little watery. Reminds me almost of a light lager. Props for it being organic though!