Alt-ernative Medicine
Lakeville Brewing Co.
- From:
- Lakeville Brewing Co.
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- Altbier
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.31 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 30, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 15, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by MNAle from Minnesota
3.31/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.31/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Weak aroma. Vaguely roasted malts. Nutty.
Clear reddish brown from the front, clear red/ruby with a back-light. Ample carbonation. With a fairly vigorous pour, it forms a 1/2 inch off-white head with short retention, leaving no lacing, while quickly ending with a central island of thin bubbles and a ring. The body of the beer is quite good looking, but the lack of any head retention detracts.
The taste is strongly roasted malts with a coffee-like bitterness that starts right away can carries through to the finish and aftertaste. Roasted malts, little flavor contribution from either the yeast or the hops, and a bitterness that, as I stated, is more like bitter coffee than hoppy.
The body is thin.
Overall, it is just has little character and no complexity. While technically it has no brewing faults that I detected, it also has little to recommend it. It is not bad, just bland and mediocre.
I've had a number of beers from this brewer, and while none would be considered world class, they were all competently brewed and enjoyable, and I would not hesitate to order any of them with a meal at the brewpub. Not this one, though. This is the first one that's been so completely disappointing.
Nov 30, 2021Clear reddish brown from the front, clear red/ruby with a back-light. Ample carbonation. With a fairly vigorous pour, it forms a 1/2 inch off-white head with short retention, leaving no lacing, while quickly ending with a central island of thin bubbles and a ring. The body of the beer is quite good looking, but the lack of any head retention detracts.
The taste is strongly roasted malts with a coffee-like bitterness that starts right away can carries through to the finish and aftertaste. Roasted malts, little flavor contribution from either the yeast or the hops, and a bitterness that, as I stated, is more like bitter coffee than hoppy.
The body is thin.
Overall, it is just has little character and no complexity. While technically it has no brewing faults that I detected, it also has little to recommend it. It is not bad, just bland and mediocre.
I've had a number of beers from this brewer, and while none would be considered world class, they were all competently brewed and enjoyable, and I would not hesitate to order any of them with a meal at the brewpub. Not this one, though. This is the first one that's been so completely disappointing.
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