KLB Premium Pale Ale

Brewed by Amsterdam Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Toronto, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

341 ml bottle from Amsterdam retail store. Pours a clear golden orange with small white head. Aroma is lightly fruity with some earthiness and mineraliness. Flavour is sort of fruity/earthy with a bit of tea-like character. Pretty underwhelming for a purported APA.

Pale golden pour with a tight creamy white head. The aroma is light and a little bit fruity. Softly zesty with a nice light berry flavour. Medium- bodied and a little bit of earthy bitterness. Simple, quaffable pint. Seems to get a bit sweeter as it warms up.

Bottle. It’s an orange copper colour with a thin white head and light carbonation. The aroma is yeasty with floral hops and caramel. Mouthfeel is chewy and a bit bubbly on the tongue, despite the low carbonation. I taste caramel in the malt with grass, dandelion, honey.

Some nice hoppyness but not much other flavour coming through it all. Not terrible but probably wouldn’t have it again unless the pickings were quite slim.

341ml bottle from the brewery. Lots fo malty sweetness and some hops, but not what you’d expect in a micro pale ale. Flavour proflie seems to be aimed at the mainstream. Just ok.

Bottle from the brewery. Pours clear golden with small lacing that disappears rapidly. Earthy citrus aroma, very little carbonation with a medium body. Again an earthy, almost marmalade flavour, finish that seems more of an English Bitter than APA

[1797-20081017] Cask. Green twig earthy hops aroma. Very murky, slightly green-hued orange brown body with a quick bubbly head. Tastes like a blend of green and black teas and chocolate bread grain. Medium body is bitter and thick. Weird tea characteristic, interesting.
Overheard: "It’s like I’m filtering it through my teeth."
(Cask Days 2008 @ Volo; Toronto, ON)

Bottle courtesy of matt7215. Pours copper with an off white head. Smells of light citrus, spice, caramel. Tastes citrussy and peppery with a tea like finish.