Flying Monkeys Stereo Vision

Brewed by Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Barrie, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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355ml bottle. Pours a hazy golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is mostly caramel notes, with some vanilla, and pine. Light bodied, and slightly watery with light caramel notes, faint resinous hops and bitterness from the wheat. Make me think watered down Brooklyn Lager. Not bad. Warm weather beer for sure.

On tap at Bar Hop...listed as Kristall and was happy to finally get that tick but o well. Amber with a biege creamy head. Somewhat bitter and floral hops, caramel but not too sweet malt, wheat. Moderate carbonation, mild body, slighty off putting finish with a hint of salt.

Bottle from LCBO. Pours clear amber with a thin white head. Aroma of sweet fruit punch and malt. Taste starts off sweet, with pepper and fruit, then moves to a bitter hoppy finish. I can see why this is called an "Amber Ale" on ratebeer - it is more of an "Amber Ale brewed with wheat" than a "Wheat Ale that happens to be amber".

Bottle 355ml. Pours clear golden with very low white head. Some lacing. Aroma is of honey, flowers, malt, wheat. Taste is of corn, malt, wheat, citrus, fruits, kinda english hops. Palate: Ligth body. Overall: Wheaty. Not bad, but not outstanding.

A decent beer even though there’s nothing to be carried away. Pours a clear amber colour with almost no head. Aroma of wheat, hops. Taste of wheat, a whole field of it.

Bouteille 355ml à 5% abv et désignée sous le style "American Kristall Wheat". De couleur dorée-orangée et claire. Nez de blé, moyen de grains de céréales sucrés aux notes rôties léger de houblon floral et herbeux avec des notes de biscuits sucrés et de levures fruitées (agrumes) aux faibles traces épicées (poivre doux). Moyenne-mince en bouche avec un pétillement moyen ainsi qu’une texture légèrement huileuse et aux notes crémeuses. Léger goût de levures fruitées (agrumes) aux notes épicées (poivre doux) avec des petites traces de gomme au savon lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un moyen goût de biscuits avec un léger goût de pain, de grains rôtis doux et de blé. Parallèlement, l’on retrouve une légère amertume asséchante de houblon floral, herbeux, très légèrement citrique et terreux jusqu’en finale. Post-goût moyen-long et moyennement sec, léger-moyen amer de houblon herbeux, légèrement floral aux notes terreuses et citriques avec des notes épicées, de blé et de levures fruitées (zeste d’agrumes).

Although a noble venture in their attempt it doesn’t quite come out as being a great beer. Short on aroma, a little biscuity and with mild citrus. Head diminishes rapidly, decent colour. Taste lacks the european wheat beers complexity, although it is a clean finishing beer with a nice amount of bittering.

Interesting beer. Uses wheat malt but is very much in a north American amber lager vein. Nice big white head to start, deep golden colour. Nose is cereal, light citrus and grassy floral hops. Nice snappy carbonation up front and through the middle, light medium body, bready flavour with some fruit in the rear. Very clean and crisp, I could very well imagine having a sixer at a BBQ, looking down my nose at the Bud Light Lime contingent....

Bottle: Poured a medium amber color ale with a medium size foamy head with average retention. Aroma of grainy wheat malt notes with some grassy floral hops. Taste is a mix between light dry caramel malt with some wheat notes and light residual sugar mix in with some grassy hops. Body is average with good carbonation. I’m not sure what the intent was but I really did not dog the mix between hops and fruity wheat malt and the caramel notes.

pours clear golden with a creamy white head, some retention and lacing. breadied malts, some toastiness, floral-grassy-herbal-spicy light to medium hopping. hint of wheat and wheat acidity. average to soft carbonation, light body - oily, very nice herbal-peppery but also with a short but present citric bite finish. reminescence of german dortmunder/helles, or maybe pils, the american way? not sure where they were heading, but this brew is refreshing, balanced and nicely done.