Lakefront Eastside Dark
Honoring the eclectic East Side of the city, this Bavarian dark lager is a blend of three specialty grains, creating a rich, smooth, dark beer that anyone can enjoy. Pours a clear, dark color with an off-white head. Hints of roasted malts find their way into the aroma, and form a pleasant background to the dark, rich flavor. The German lager yeast rounds out this brew with a smooth, complex finish. Winner of the 2014 and 2016 European Beer Star Gold Medal for Bohemian-Style Schwarzbier.
3.2
435 reviews
Milwaukee, United States
Community reviews
355ml bottle (thanks Anna). Clear dark copper color. Small size, bubbly tan head, stays. Sweet, caramel, nutty, dusty in aroma. Sweet, caramel, sugar, straw in taste. Sweet, caramel, honey in aftertaste. Chewy mouthfeel. Drinkable brew.
330ml bottle, thanks Fatphil. Pours clear brown colour, small white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, dung, woody. Taste is sweet, malty, very nutty, bit woody. Nutty in aftertaste, some burnt caramel. Medium body, average carbonation. Too sweet, but overally drinkable.
Aroma of malt and chocolate.
Taste of malt with chocolate notes. Slightly tart, bittersweet finish
pours cola dark. small head that dissipates quickly. A non complex taste with overtones of coffee. A little bitter aftertaste, though not unpleasing.
I poured it from the bottle into a glass. It pours a cola brown with a small, white head. The aroma is caramel, coffee, nuts, toast, and earthy. The taste is sweet with caramel, coffee, and bread hints. It was a little thin. This was okay. There wasn't anything wrong with it. It didn't stand out either though.
A small taste from a bottle @ Alko, press tasting. Pours clear dark brown with a medium head. Aroma is light roasted malts. Flavor is light roasted malts with some hops in the finish. Decent.
Bottled 355ml (Alko web, BB 01/2019)
Dark nut brown colour, medium-sized beige head. Aroma is nutty with some caramel and ash. Light to medium-bodied. Toffee, toasted malts, chocolate or cocoa powder, nuttyness, grass. Quite Bavarian like but no need to brought it here. Better orginals available.
Smell is quite good roasted malt with some coffee...taste is the same....some biscuit...fairly one dimensional though....degrades a bit with time x2
A dark brown beer, a head is blond. Aroma has breadyness, rye bread and sour bread, some sweetness of syrup. Taste has maltyness breadyness, some sweetness of syrup that's balanced, not too sweet, hint of chocolate. Medium bodied, smooth. Balanced and good beer.
33 cl bottle.
Pours dark red color with a large off-white head. Aroma is malty with grain notes, some hay and faint hoppy notes. Flavor is very bready and malty, some caramel notes, cocoa, bitterness on the finish. Decent simple brew.
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355ml bottle. Pours black with white lacing. Roasted malts with light coffee.
he beer has a cola body with hints of ruby. A quarter inch of beige head quickly fades. The aroma offers bittersweet chocolates, light coffee, brown bread, malt. Ok flavor. Mild sweetness with moderate carbonation.
Nice body too it, good strong flavor that’s not over the top. not very complex but sturdy and drinkable.
330ml bottle. Pours dark brown with medium off-white head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, coffee, bread. Medium body, average carbonation. Taste is medium to light sweet, light bitter.
Clear, deep copper to brown colored, medium beige frothy head, good lasting. Aroma is of malt, some caramel, nutty, bit chocolate and some toast, pretty pleasant. Taste is medium sweet malt, some caramel and light chocolate, bit toast, very light roasty notes, light+ herbal bitterness, nutty, sweetish finish. Medium- bodied, soft carbonation, bit creamy.
(bottle, BrauBeviale 2016)
Tap at brewery.
Nutty dark Brown with oatmeal head. Honey nut cheerios. Flavor is light ballgames with a dry finish.
Toasted, dark malts, grain and bread malts, light caramel. Hazy, dark brown, small, frothy, off-white head. Light bitter. More toasted malts, dark grain and some bread malts, lively carbonation. OK Dunkel, nothing too spectacular though. Keg at brewery, Milwaukee.
B-. Pours a clear brown color with off white head. Coffee flavors with an easy finish
Brown pour with an off-white head. The smooth texture and sweet taste follow the malty aroma. It has average carbonation with an easy finish.
Aroma is malty. Taste is some roasted malts, but on the light side. Overall average.
Pours a cola color with a dense off white head.......aroma of coffee, slight septic......taste is very slight chocolate, very slight coffee, thin, touch of gauze and may have an issue. Finished with slight bitterness.
Malty but thin with a bit of chocolate and some coffee. Dunkel that doesn't do too much to differentiate.
dark murky brown pour with a mocha head. has a coffee, roasted, and earthy aroma. flavors of coffee, chocolate, roasted, yeast, and caramel. medium body with a sticky mouth feel. decent overall
Black pour with white head. Carmel aroma. Smoke. Draft pour at uncle mikes. Skunky and gross
At the GKBF near COEX. Lakefront east side dark lager
Pours a dark brown with a malty solid malty smoked chocolate caramel malt aroma. Smooth bodied with a balanced malty chocolate cake like flavor. Lovely
Taste is decent. Slight bitter and a little thick. Aroma is nice. Would have again. Dark coloring. Bottle
Medium brown with a tan head. Fairly transparent. Great aroma of nuts, dried fruit, and toasted malt. Similar flavors on the palate. Great balance. Lengthy malty finish.
5 percent ? Really tastes like a bit more .. maybe residual gravity. Aromas of coffe, seltzer water and chocolate. Low body with mineral aftertaste.
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. The aroma is toasted bread and yeast with a light roasted coffee note and some cola late. It pours a dark, clear oily caramel color topped by an off white, beige foam head and it retains a medium ring with a light wisp surface and no lace. The taste is a medium sweet and bitter blend. The medium light body has a fuzzy carbonation and an oily texture. Figgy and roasty coffee flavors come through with a light toffee flavor late. It’s clean and crisp with a mineral water finish and has a nutty and roasted aftertaste.
Pours clear mahogany. Off white fizzy head. Slight roasted malt aroma. Flavor is medium dark roasted malt. Starts slightly sweet but has a drier finish. Palate is medium light; the effervescence is again s feature - it effects the overall palate. Overall, a nice dark session beer, light on hops. Lager.