My Turn #029: Anai
Lakefront Brewery
- From:
- Lakefront Brewery
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- Robust Porter
- ABV:
- 7.8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.41 | pDev: 23.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 09, 2019
- Added:
- Feb 17, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Anai, Lakefront’s Catering Sous Chef, brewed this Mexican Hot Chocolate Ale. She wanted a beer that tastes like the Mexican hot chocolate she and her family drink alongside slices of Rosca de Reyes cake, as they celebrate El Día De Reyes. Pouring up dark-brown with a fluffy mocha-colored head, Anai’s beer delivers all the flavors found in a mug of Mexican hot chocolate: roasty, semisweet chocolate with slight honey-like notes, followed by spicy-sweet cinnamon and nutmeg. Finishes with just enough chili-pepper heat to keep warm until spring.
20 IBU
20 IBU
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by Ri0:
Reviewed by Ri0 from Wisconsin
3.59/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured 12oz bottle into snifter. It is dark-brown with a 1.5 finger mocha-colored head that leaves minimal lacing on my glass. Aroma is chocolate with light notes of spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and chilies., The flavors a supposed to resemble a mug of Mexican hot chocolate, but are rather timid. The malts are roasty with semi-sweet chocolate, followed by light cinnamon and nutmeg. Finishes with some chili-pepper but no real heat. Feel is light medium as this resembles the body of a brown ale with light carbonation. It's decent, but not something I would purchase again.
Feb 17, 2019More User Ratings:
Reviewed by scaliasux from Wisconsin
3.23/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.23/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
L - Dark brown. Appears clear. Tall, light brown, persistent head.
S - Sweet milk chocolate. A little bit of spice.
T - Sweet dark roasted malts. Dark chocolate and a little coffee. Peppers with some heat.
F - Medium-light.
O - Some interesting flavors, but ultimately too sweet for my taste.
Mar 16, 2019S - Sweet milk chocolate. A little bit of spice.
T - Sweet dark roasted malts. Dark chocolate and a little coffee. Peppers with some heat.
F - Medium-light.
O - Some interesting flavors, but ultimately too sweet for my taste.
Reviewed by Ottoj55 from Wisconsin
2.49/5 rDev -27%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
2.49/5 rDev -27%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
A Mexican hot chocolate porter? Its deep brown/ruby colored, tan head. Smells too much like chocolate and spices, cinnamon, nutmeg. And the flavor matches, a balance too hard toward the chocolate and spices and an unbalanced chili pepper heat. Medium bodied if you can bring yourself to swallow. Another My Turn loser.
Mar 15, 2019
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