Amsterdam Pomegranate Wheat

Brewed by Amsterdam Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Toronto, Canada

Serve in Flute

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[1379-20080523] Tap. Light fruity cherry cough syrup aroma. Clear, light brown orange body with a long-lasting creamy off-white head. Flavour is mostly fruity sweet pomegranate with notes of apricot and wheat. Medium body has a bit of a tang. Refreshing, good to try.
(@ C’est What; Toronto, ON)

Bottle-Deep but transparent amber pour unleashes a thin white and fizzy head. The aroma is fruity, pomegranate, maybe some raspberry or mixed berries, but this is really only pomegranate, and it is pleasant. The flavour is pretty sweet pomegranates and other mixed fruit, similar to the aroma. I’m really only getting one thing here, and that is sugar coated pomegranate. This might do well with some ice cubes in it as a patio sipper, but strictly as a beer, it doesn’t work as well as I would like cause it is just too sweet.

500mL bottle from the LCBO. Pours a decent looking clear amber with a small mauve head. Aroma is, well, pomegranate’s, and that’s really it, maybe some other really sweet fruits, smells ok. Flavour is all sweet pomegranate, maybe some blackberry, with an unpleasant dry wheatyness aspect that really feels weird on the palate. Way too much carbonation, I had to swirl it around in my weizen glass constantly to try to kill some of the excessive effervesence. Not really very good, drinkable for a few minutes before it just gets kind of annoying. If not for the wheat I’d have assumed this was bad pomegranate pop. Just really boring and unneccessary, trying to capitalize on the whole pomegranate craze of the moment.

Draught sample at C’est What Spring 2008 Festival of Small Breweries. Orange with a small white head and lots (I mean LOTS) of little bubbles. Aroma has a hell of a lot of pomegranate, but more like pomegranate candy than the real thing. Body is thin, but crisp from the bubbles. Flavour of fruit candy - no, gum - damn, it tastes like Juicy Fruit! I sort of enjoyed this in a small sample, but more than that would be way too much for me, it’s just too frickin’ sweet.

Draught at C’est What. Pours a clear bubbly orange with an average size semi-lasting creamy white head. Aroma is big-time pomegranate, a little sugary sweet, maybe a tad artificial. It doesn’t smell like beer it’s all sugary fruit. Flavour of grain, light hops, light fruit and a finish that I found a little iffy, not sure why. It’s much more balanced then the aroma but it’s still a touch too sweet for my liking. Average bodied. Not bad, like I said, the aroma is too much, too much pomegranate and too fake but the flavour’s decent.

Light orange with a nose of citrus and peach, candyish flavour that almost reminded me of an alcopop. It’s refreshing and somewhat fitting for the style, but hard to drink more than a sample.

2005-05-23. Yellow bodied with a small off white head. Huge fruity pomegranate aroma. Similar fruit character in the flavour, but much more muted there. Lightly tart in the finish. (6+) Average palate. Decent mainstream fruit beer I guess but leaves me ambivalent. On tap at C’est What

Draught. At C’est What. Hazy amber with a small white head. Sugary aroma, mostly just heavy, unpleasant pomegranate. The taste isn’t exactly bad, but it’s more like sticky koolaid than beer - a heavy fruit wine cooler. Thick, sweet body, papery in the finish, a tad overripe .... not all that pleasant, the aroma particularly was over the top.

On tap at C’est What - came a reddish brown with a good head that retained well. And that’s where the fun ended - aroma of artificial fruit (certainly not pomegranate) and not much wheat at all. Tasted like a slightly alcoholized cherry-fluoride. I wanted to like this one and applaud the effort, but the outcome is a bit off. Stick to the Framboise.

On tap at C’est What?
Appearance: Clean , bright amber brew with medium plus top. Decent lacing oproduced.4-
Nose : Strong and aromatic, candy sugars flavored with pomms. To sweet for my taste. 5-
Flavor/Palate : Watery thin , mineral underscore , light fruity feel. Flavour itself seems true but beer its self was lacking fuller experience and satisfaction.