Lakefront Pumpkin Lager

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Bottle. Poured a clear orange into a pint glass. Spicy aroma of nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Flavor of pumpkin and spices. Light bodied with mild carbonation.

Crushed with Jakebra at the brewery. Hot damn. Spicy nose makes this beer immediately appetizing. Tastes like a decent pumpkin pie except it’s beer which makes it ever better. Absolutely and happily impressed.

Pours a clear orange color. Nice pumpkin spice aroma. Nice flavor. Light on the palate. copyright grimreeser.

Pours a clear orange color. Nice pumpkin spice aroma. Nice flavor. Light on the palate.

I wanted to like this one, as I had heard good things. But, I didn’t find it to be that great. What it is: a very clean tasting lager with a bit of spice and a touch of pumpkin in the flavor and aroma. The pumpkin is overpowered by the spice, but neither are that prevalent. It’s not a bad brew, but nothing I would search out again.

Bottle. Orange in color, not much head. Aroma of spices. Taste is spicy... with a touch of pumkin, cinnamon and nutmeg. Different but in an ok way. Texture is medium along with the carbonation. Just an ok pumkin beer.

Sweet fleshy pumpkin nose with cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. Burnt orange color, slight haze, small head. Flakey pie crust and chilled pumpkin pie filling sweetness. Slight bitterness and spices for balance. Good carbonation, full mouth feel, fairly clean finish considering the all of the different flavors. One of the better pumpkin beers out there, it is the pumpkin ale Willy Wonka would make if he was a brewer!

I’ve never found a style so erratic in micro and macro brews as the pumpkin ale. You’ll never, even know when one will be tasty or terrible, and there are no indicators save for your tastebuds that will give you a hint. And so, a pumpkin beer that I thought would be iffy turn out to be quite good: the Lakefront Brewery Pumpkin Lager Beer. With a luminescent orange glow and a smoothed head, this beer is to all appearances a well designed pumpkin brew. The aroma smacks of raw pumpkin, doused in a little rum, brown sugar and clove. And with all that it tastes like roasted pumpkin. The mouthfeel is substantial and active, veritably burrowing into the tongue with bright flavors amidst a core of raw pumpkin flavor. Generous doses of brown sugar and pumpkin spices make a deep sweet that can compete with the pumpkin crux. In other words, this is a pumpkin beer with deep, deep flavor. If there’s a major flaw, it is that the aftertaste has a little too much of the vegetal quality, and reeks of a plain thinness particular to macrobrewed lagers. Then again, it does borrow all the crispness of a lager. In the grand scheme of pumpkin beers, this is definitely with the better pumpkin beers.