Amsterdam Pomegranate Wheat

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

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.

Peach nose, hint of wheat, tiny white head. Flavour of Trident mixed fruit gum. Light bodied, creamy, easy drinking. Fair.

500ml bottle 4.5% From the LCBO Very strong fruity malty smell Nice golden amber colour tastes fruity a little sweet but not too sweet and a touch watery Not as bad as thought it was going to be

Bottle from LCBO. Pours a burnished copper color, slightly hazed with a reddish tinge. Decent cap fair lacing. Lively carbonation Funky sweet fruit aroma and musty earthy notes. Light body, dry wheat biscuit flavor light woody hopping with a persistent pomegranate flavor that stays through to the dry tart finish. A light fruity spritzy-dry summer wheat beer in the commercial vein. No real flaws just not memorable enough to stand out.

American wheat style beer with a jumble of berry and frut flavors I cannot place. It’s like fruit herbal tea or gum, perhaps JuicyFruit. It IS similar to an alco-pop, and may be marketed to this demog. Anyway, this does taste like a beer, there are some hops adding a little bite, but the slickly artificial fruitiness kind of kills it for me. I do say go buy the Framboise though... jerc, sorry but "ambibalent" does not mean blasé or indifferent... it means having strongly contradictory feelings, such as really liking and yet hating something.

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.

500ml bottle
4.5% ABV
I tried this beer on August 18, 2009 after purchasing from one of my local LCBO outlets. The beer poured a translucent golden red with a thin tan coloured head. The aroma was sweet malt and light fruits, although it was more apricot like than pomegranate. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium-high carbonation. The flavour was sweet malt with a tang. A bit over the top flavour wise as it was more of a zing than anything.

500ml bottle from the LCBO. Pours nicely, with a nice head and deep copper colour. Aroma is very pleasant, and I actually paused to inhale a bit longer. The first taste however is dissapointing, starting with a harsh medicinal taste, then following with a fruity sweetness. It likely would be better had I chilled it more.