Lakefront Big Easy Lager
This big bodied, blonde, doppelbock is brewed in celebration of that festival of all festivals, Mardi Gras. Generous amounts of malts are added to this beer to give it a sweet taste.
2009 - 6%
2010 - 7.7%
2009 - 6%
2010 - 7.7%
3
204 reviews
Milwaukee, United States
Community reviews
Sampled at the Rapids Liquor Tasting. Aroma is fresh, fruity, light, and Spring-like. Taste is fruit, yeast, with a grainy aftertaste. No alcohol present. Refreshing lawnmower beer.
Hazy orange with a thin white head. Mild carbonation and no lacing. Aroma of pale malts, yeasts, caramel, light honey and floral hops. Same with the flavor. Moderate body with mild carbonation. Pretty good!
Medium off white head and overall light tan body. Aroma is a bit weak with notes of caramel and sweetness. Body is light and a bit thin with a pale finish. Decent beer but not overall amazing
I had this at Global Brew. Pours orangish gold with a white head. Taste sweet, biscuit. I thought this was good. I could drink this again.
Bottle: Deep amber with some lighter yellow-straw tints in places, more orange-y towards the center, capped with a wispy, thin white head. Aroma has notes of honey, lemon zest, & some kitchen spices that are hard to identify. Malty, caramel-like sweetness throughout. Taste has mild white pepper, hints of nutmeg, spices, & a finishing, heavy sweetness that’s mostly reminiscent of honey. Light phenols, warming, with a bit of a corny grain note in the aftertaste. Earthy, leafy, borderline-citric hops appear with more warmth, as does a stronger alcohol presence. Unique... Tastes "spiced" a bit, even though I believe it is not. Wouldn’t want to drink this often, but I enjoyed this more than most folks, it seems.
I dunno about this stuff. It is uncomfortably close to an eastern European malt liquor. It is better than that but uncomfortably close nevertheless. It is strong lager beer that is sweet but dried out by noticeable alcohol. It had a sort of fruity bubble gum flavor as well but at least this doesn’t positively reek of it and it’s devoid of other of flavors. This drinks easily enough but it is the brewers are playing with fire. This is a hairs breadth from being a disaster.
Sampled at Big Brew Beer Festival (Morristown). Poured a hazy amber color with a big frothy off white head. Aroma of mostly toasted malt and citrus fruit. Taste was also sweet citrus, toasted malt, and finished a bit sour.
Nice bready aroma. Good malty character. Hops take a back seat to the sweet biscuit notes that make this bock what it claims to be.
The toasted malt taste is a bit heavy heavy in this brew, but it’s okay. Sadly, prickly carbonation and a lack of hops ruin the positive traits of this lager. The result is a bock that’s a bit too sweet and unbalanced.
Rating from 2010 as Imperial Maibock. 6%. Der Antrunk ist mild-weich.süßlich. Mild karamellig. Zum Hauptteil ganz leicht säuerlich werdend, dabei malzig-karamellig mild. Starker Hang zur Wässrigkeit. Der Nachgeschmack ist karamellig, mild weich.
Nicht annähernd ein Maibock, Nichtmal im entferntesten etwas Maibock-ähnliches spürbar. Ansonsten aber sehr trinkbar. --> 9/10/9/8
Bottle - small foramy head, dark gold color, VERY sweet malty aroma and flavor, not much in way of hops at all - guess that’s what it’s supposed to be, a little too sweet and generic lagerish tasting for me
12 oz. bottle poured to a small, Czech-pils type glass in two stages. First pour showed a clear, orangy gold with nice, rising effervescence. The second gathered up bottom sediment, and was quite hazy. Both showed creamy, off white head foam that reduced rather quickly to a ring & bubbly film, but left some lasting, clingy, ribbons & spots of lacing. The nose was typical lager/pils scent, light toast to the malt, and a touch of caramel sweetness. Basically sweet throughout, the flavor also presented some light esters, low but noticeable hop bitterness, alcohol presence, and some resulting warmth, all in a medium body. Not bad, but the persistent sweetness, though not cloying, rendered the beer less clean & crisp as I would have preferred.
Muddy Orange Color, Huge Head Dissipated almost immediately leaving only a couple of strings of lacing. Sweet, caramel, malt, just a hint of light bitter at the end, although sweet dominates this one. Real smooth for this ABV, easy to drink Good For what it is. OK.
Nothing exceptional here. Sweetish but very drinkable. Bready with some honey and caramel.
Bottle, imperial maibock version. Aroma is minimal but a hint of maltiness. Pours cloudy copper colored with a light, white head. Light refreshing beer with a lot of malt and a crisp bite on the finish.
12 oz bottle: Aroma is bread with a little bit of roast on it. The hops poke through with a grassy note, then on a second sniff a more citrus/grapefruit nose. Appearance is very light amber color, almost golden with a thick white head that lingers around for a little while. Taste is pretty good with the hops coming to the forefront then a little bit of the toasty note of the malt. Palate is medium to low carbonation, light in the mouth feel, a light crisp aftertaste. Overall, It’s not a world beater, but it’s very drinkable. Cheers!
Hazyish coppery orange with a fading white head. Smell is like honey and toasted biscuit, with a slightly boozy doughy lager yeast. Flavor has a more pronounced doughy lager yeast flavor, with some smooth biscuitiness and a mellow sweetness. Very low bitterness, doesn’t really feel imperial. A fine helles, but tastes like nothing special. Still quite good though.
"Mystery Beer" at Green Dot Stables in Detroit for the week of February 24th. $3 for a bottle. Bottled in November 2012. Since I had it straight out of the bottle...
1.) I won’t bother going over the appearance.
2.) I won’t be able to really give this beer a fair shake.
Smell: It’s your typical maibock. It has a sort of "dusty" and dirty malt aroma with plenty of sweetness at the end of each whiff.
Taste/feel: Follows the nose, for sure. Has that gritty malt flavor, but a perfect amount of sweetness.
Brief review, and probably not a very accurate one (I was already three deep on an empty stomach), but I feel my ratings probably aren’t very far off. Not necessarily something I’d seek out again, but definitely something I’d try again.
Pretty decent seasonal. Good food pairing beer. Has a bit of sweetness and bitterness too.Would pair with Spicy food well hence the Big Easy marketing. Good Beer for your Mardi Gras party....compares to Abita Mardi Gras Bock favorably
Bottle. Hazy amber color, medium white head. Aroma of caramel. Taste is sweet and malty.
Imperial maibock: Slight hazed light copper/gold,thin head no lace. Moderate carb.
Spicey fruity noseApricot comes to mind..Kind of gingery/evergreenish maybe junipery.Kind of malty.Caramel/vannilla. Pretty nice really.
Taste is malty spicey with fruit/sweetness.Fairly citrusy,caramel/vannilla. Full malty body with sweetness/ fruit and spiceyness. Peppery linger.Some alcohol.
Imperial Maibock version - Aroma is... minimal. Hints of the fruit, a bit of caramel, sweet. Pours clear golden yellow. White brief head. The first impression comes from the fizz on the tongue, then it smooths out and finishes with a little pepper spice. Texture is creamy, medium light body. Mostly leans towards being a sweet beer, not overly so, but... I can imagine it with jambalaya, - the south does like it’s sweets - so I think as a concept, a beer for Mardi Gras, it works. Compared to the usual lagers served, this has some substance. On it’s own, it’s OK.
**Update** - a while back I was "forced" to drink a Miller High Life Lite. I characterized it as beer flavored water. This beer could be the beer used to flavor the water - that’s not a bad thing. It has character, substance and nuance that are lost in the watered down stuff.
Amber with a cm of white head. Aroma smells of worty caramel and dog, and taste is the same, minus dog, plus a sour malty note. $2/12 oz
Bottled 11/14/12, as ’Imperial Maibock’, appropriately named choice for a Superbowl Sunday pick this year, I guess. Some sunny pils malt and noble hops in the nose, with a hint of some alcohol. Hazy orange-golden body with a creamy off-white head. Taste is somewhat sweet, thinnish malt with light noble hops, bready-yeasty finish and a little sunshine before that, but there’s a bigger dedication to booze and white grape/honey, even if both are dulled. Little spicy, not bitter or astringent, medium-full body and a smidgen of depression.
This is just OK. Hits the style on looks, golden, clear, dense white head, but the nose is muted with slight wheat and the malty body is not all that well integrated. Better as it warmed slightly but a bit sweet, a little estery, and when cold faintly metallic. Drinkable but was hoping for better.
12 oz bottle bottled in Nov. or Dec. of 2012 -- very fresh.
Pours a lightly hazy amber with a good sized but fragile off-white head. Rather sweet and slightly boozy, as expected for style. Well done but not one of my favorite styles.
Tastes like pumpkin, tea, cinnamon, molasses. Low carbonation, few hops. Decent bock, though light.
Amber. Minimal head. Some spices. Faint sourness. Malty. Not alot to it really. Decent body.
Dark copper color, low amounts of carbonation, acidic and sweet aroma like an Oktoberfest. Medium bodied, yet a tad flat and wishy-washy in delivery...it sorta sits there without fizz nor creamy smoothness. Still it’s a pleasant beer and not bad in a 1-bottle dose. The taste is sweet and moderately floral. I may not buy it again, but I would definitely choose it over most lagers.
I love Maibocks but this is just ok. Malty and spivey. But too soft. Too light. Light to medium bodied. Not great