Lakefront Riverwest Stein

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Vienna
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Damn this is good lager!! Sweet, rich malts aplenty and a perfect little cascade hops balancer at the finish. So clean and thirst quenching, I would find it hard to believe that any beer drinker would have anything bad to say about it. Hints of peaty smokiness and earthy notes linger after each sip.

super malty aroma, with the ever-so-slight cascadelike tang hidden in there. damn! suprising take on the style. very hoppy for a vienna, but i think i like it. sublime malt backbone with a dry clean finish. awesome balance, hardly cloying despite all the malt. probably the best vienna i’ve had.

Very creamy flavor and beautiful color – a must-drink Milwaukee brew. Another great beer from a great brewery.

12oz brown bottle from The Lighthouse in Manchester as part of this brewery’s sampler 8-pack. Pours a dark amber with a good half inch or so of off-white head. Smells bready with a fair bit of caramel. Tastes biscuity with strong caramel and chocolate. Medium in body with moderate carbonation. Actually a pretty tasty beer, and pretty damn drinkable. One of this brewery’s better offerings IMO.

I had been wanting to try this for a while, being as it is one of the highest rated Vienna’s. Bottle. Pours a deep copper-amber with a nice fluffy lasting off white head. Aroma is loaded with toasty light munich and vienna malts- bready and nutty with a nice light caramel sweentes sand balance with good herbal hops. Fresh bread, nuts, toast, munich and noble hop flavor, clean crisp finish, and very smooth. Kickass lager.

True to form I drank this from a stein my son bought me. Pours a dark amber with a creamy off-white head. Nose is not impressive. Has a thick consistency on the tongue. Toasted nuts quickly pleasure the palate.Little malt, only a brief glimpse of hops. This brew probably would suck if it were not for the nuttiness of it. Very nice. I can feel it from my tastebuds to my inner nostrils.

Piney hop aroma, which threw me off a little after reading the "ALL MALT AMBER LAGER" note right in the middle of the label. Amber lager's or Viennas, for that matter, are not known for their hops, and with a statement like "All malt" I expected no hops. Promising. Body is an attractive reddish amber with a small, whispy off white head. There are some visible particles, but not enough to make for as much as a cloudy appearance per se. Excellent lace. Initial mouthfeel backs up the aroma in that there are indeed hops. There are hints of thinness in the finish, but there is enough substance here to carry it. This beer is totally falsely advertised. It is a sweet hoppy beer, albeit with an abundance of caramelly roasted malt. Is it balanced? Yes. However, it's primary flaw would be that it is a little overly sweet. Still, this is very enjoyable.

(Bottled First Week Of September) These lakefront beers have great clarity. Nice malty nose, it is like I stuck my head into a bag of grain. Sweet, but not too sticky. I like it but I find it hard to categorize.