Lakefront Cherry Lager
An American style fruit beer made with Wisconsin’s Door County cooking cherries and lager yeast. The tartness of the cherry is balanced with the sweetness from the 2-row barley and the flavoring of Mt. Hood hops.
2.9
233 reviews
Milwaukee, United States
Community reviews
An average fruit beer. The cherries are present on the nose and palate, with the lager yeast really only showing up on the palate to give this just a little depth. Finishes with a little cherry tartness.
Draft to taster. Looks solid; a mostly transparent orange with white lacing. Smells of dough and lager yeast with mild cherry notes. Tastes like it smells with an average mouthfeel. Not bad; couldn’t drink a lot of it though due to its sweetness.
This pours a reddish amber color with a slight head and a little fizzy carbonation. The aroma is very grainy without much of a cherry scent. The taste is grainy and slightly sweet but not very heavy in cherry flavor. I’m a little disappointed as I was expecting something much different and better tasting. Do yourself a favor and pick up New Glarus Belgian Red instead.
Rated on 3-22-2010 (Bottle) When poured, this beer has a small fizzy off-white head with a short retention, transparent orange body, visible carbonation, and spotty lacing. The aroma is malty, sweet and tart cherries. The taste is sweet, sour, tart cherries, and has a short dry finish. The palate is tingly and this beer is medium bodied. Overall, this beer is not very cherry tasting and is rather bland tasting and not a beer I will seek out again.
12 oz bottle pours red amber with a white head. Aroma is malts and cherries. Taste is sweet malts and tart cherries.
The beer has a nice reddish copper color to it, has a nice white head and decent lacing on the glass. The smell is mild malt and has a sour cherry scent to it. The taste is decent with a nice mild malt taste with a sour cherry finish to it, different but nice. The mouthfeel leaves you with a bitter finish but beer is well carbonated. Overall, a nice sour summer lager but not much more than that.
Nice ruby red colored pour. Big pink-tinted head. Plenty of lacing. Big aroma of cherry juice. Almost a Kool-Aid cherry aroma. Not bad. Taste is a bitter cherry followed by not much. Kind of bland and lifeless.
Appearance: Clear, light yellow
Aroma: Hint of cherries/fruit
Taste: Sweet fruit comes through the lighter body with a bit of tartness
Palate: Good carbonation. Slight cherry aftertaste
Overall: Interesting, pretty tasty.
Location: 12 oz bottle from State Line, 4/25/13
Aroma: The nose has the obvious cherry, along with some malt and bread notes
Appearance: It pours a reddish-orange color with a large, frothy, off-white head and fairly heavy lace
Flavor: The taste is fairly sweet up-front, and then it gets rather tart in the mid-to-end palates
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a fairly fizzy mouthfeel, and a bit of an odd finish
Overall Impression:
I didn’t know what to expect from this one, but this one turned out to be pretty interesting. It was certainly more interesting than it was good, but still it was interesting.
From bottle. Pours amber/ red with no head. Aroma is sweet with malt and cherry. taste follows with a tartness and somewhat natural cherry taste. Carbonation is low and I guess this is a lager? Could drink one, and I did. Next.
A little over the top with the cherry flavor-feels a bit synthetic. Otherwise a pretty good fruit beer.
Bottle pours an amber/copper color with a thin off white head. Scent is tart cherries. Taste is the same with a cereal graininess.
Aroma is cherries and a hint of sweetness. Flavor is similar to the aroma. Not bad, but don’t care for cherries and this is slightly off.
Aroma - Slight malt and cherry smell. Not very strong, but nice. Appearance - Small white head that dissipates quickly leaving only a white ring around the edges. Color is a hazy amber red. Slight lacing on the glass. Taste - Strong natural cherry taste up front with a nice malty, biscuity taste behind it. Very sweet and tasty! Palate - Light carbonation, full body. Overall - Evenly balanced, nice real cherry taste. Very good!
Amber pour with next to no head. Tart cherry aroma with some cherry flavor. Not much else happening here. Too sweet.
Amber color light fruit beer. Low carbonation, almost watery. Minimal cherry flavor, very neutral. Nothing distinctive about this beer.
Very low carbonation. Tastes almost watery. Clean taste. A little but of tartness from cherries. Nothing special.
It poured an amber color with an off-white head. The aroma was of cherry and light sweet malts. The taste was of sweet malts from the caramel then there is a slight tart cherry.
orangish with minimal head. cherry tartness is very evident, but cherry flavor is more subtle. the lager elements are pretty weak. overall, it’s ok, but nothing remarkable.
Pours with mild carbonation. It has a mild cherry taste with hints of wheat and hay. A little bland and watery.
...watery, thin, basically no cherry flavor. A complete rip off. Only a hint of cherry when it warms up, but very acidic and sour. Poor effort, crappy beer.
Pours dark orange/brown with a tight off-white cap.
Scent is mildly cherry....like the lonely cherry in a can of fruit cocktail.
Taste is about the same.....plus a bit plasticky.
It’s ok, but pretty weak.
Mild fruit in the aroma. Sweet and tart malt and cherry with a tapering and watery finish. Not bad, but not one I would gravitate towards again.
Nothing special here. A nice sweet nose. Enough cherry on the tongue. Easy to drink, watery. Does the fruit hide a decent lager? Perhaps, but I am not willing to find out
GTMW. Poured clear reddish brown color and an average frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with fair lacing. Moderate dark cherry tart aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium tart cherry sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. Refreshing fruit beer.
pours reddish with minimal head. decent smell of cherries coming from the glass but not like you’d expect from a cherry beer. sweet taste, not too over powering on the cherry. not bad but also doesn’t stand out.
This beer is really pretty decent, but still nothing much to it. I like some more complexity.
A: The beer pours a slightly cloudy red-orange color with a thin layer of off-white head.
S: I don’t get too much of a cherry aroma from this at first. There is a bit of cherry skin to it and a slight fruity sweetness, but as it warms up, the intense cherry comes through. Some yeast and grass, as well.
T: There is some cherry sweetness and a bit of cherry skin. Just a hint of cinnamon on the back end. It’s slightly acidic and grassy with a little bit of bread/biscuit malt. Not very much going on with the flavor, to be honest.
M: Light in body with a moderate to high carbonation.
O: I wasn’t expecting much from this, and it delivered on that front. But really, not awful (which I was expecting).
A reddish pour with a small head. Not much lacing on my glass. Smell of cherries is clear with nothing else sticking out. Flavor was a little tart but not overally, not as creamy as I thought it would be. A little too sweet at the end for me.
Pours a reddish golden with a white head. Aroma is light cherry and sweer malt. Flavor is sweet, light cherry tartness and then an average lager with a bit of sweet malt. Disappointing.