Lakefront Organic ESB

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

Clear copper body with an off-white head. Sweet caramel nose with some toasty maple notes. Juicy, mildly toasty and fruity malt flavor with some firm bitterness. Fairly light bodied. A fair ESB for summer.

Organic is interesting, and I was curious to see if it made an impact on the taste. Very grounded, low-key flavors. Everything is nicely balanced, and fairly flavorful, they just don’t jump out at you. Mild, leafy hops and caramel malt are the most prominent tastes, just ahead of pecans, toast, and black beans. Everything is a bit earthy, and the texture is quite chewy. Reminds me of a brown, but it is still a bitter. Goes great with lunch.

Slight hop aroma, mild carmel malt taste,quick disappearing sweet aftertaste. The best of three average esb’s we tried that night

Light, leafy green hops float over caramel and bready malts. Clear, copper coloured body is topped by a decent white head that lasts nicely and laces well. Round, bready and caramel malts are thick in the mouth with light finishing bitterness to take the edge off. Chewy, thick, malty, medium body with soft, low, but engaging carbonation. An excellent session bitter. I’m surprised at the low ratings. Sampled at Mondial de la Bière 2005.

Aroma:light hops... Appearance:gold amber light head... Flavor:Light bitterness,sweet mnalt flavor....

Pours amber in color with a decent head that settled back to an eighth of an inch. Aroma is hops and some sweet malt. Not much flavor though.. Some mild malts and hops but very watery on the palate. Kind of bitter at first but more sweet than I expected for an ESB. Not real complex. Drinkable.

bottle. pour is amber in color with a head that faded to nothingness in seconds. there’s not much in the way of flavor here. unlike any esb i’ve ever had and hope i don’t again. not recommended.

In the bottle. Pours an orange-amber with an initially bodacious head that gives out after a couple of sips from a parched mouth. Pretty nice aroma of medium alpha hops. Palate is definitely NOT buttery and this means that I will not ever drink this again. Flavor is tart at first and then swings directly into a couple of waves of mild bitterness. This beer is, in fact, salty. The body is a little too watery for my tastes in this style. (Previous rating 2.3) UPDATE 11/2007: In the bottle from Total Beverage. Well, I proved myself wrong above and tried this again. Brownish amber with a large off-white head. Slightly roasted toffee aroma. Good malt thickness. Nice and true to style by my standards today. Very quick finish with only a residual lingering bitterness. Good malt thickness that did not exist before. Either my beer appreciative skills sucked before, or the brewer has seriously improved this beer from its previous incarnation.