KLB Raspberry Wheat Beer

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

Bottle purchased from brewery. Light-brown beverage with a slight red infusion. Aromas of fresh raspberry fruit and woody raspberry seed. Soda-like effervescence is light and refreshing. Flavour begins with tart raspberry fruit, but this nuance surprisingly dies away about half-way through, replaced by bitter wood and a crisp hop finish. Overall an okay beer that takes some getting used to. Would make a good mid-afternoon cottage beer.

500ml Bottle from the LCBO Not bad for a fruit beer but could use a little more taste

Medium to dark amber, with a low off-white head. Relatively fragrant aroma of dark malts, wheat, raspberry and hops: neither the wheat nor the fruit is in control here--good balance, sour and sweet. Taste is berry, with sweet and sour, dark malts, caramel, wheat and a touch of hops. Interesting combination, not strong on the wheat. The raspberry is a little fake tasting, but otherwise pretty decent. Finish of malt and sour fruits, with a touch of hops only. An interesting fruit beer with a lot going on. Not perfect or even outstanding, but enjoyable enough.

500 ml can from brewery: Light copper colour with big fizzy head that rapidly diminishes to nothing. Malt aromas with apparent raspberry overtones. Taste has some malt and hop character but less raspberry flavour. Thin. Good for my wife, I suppose.

This Wheat beer poured a cloudy light orange colour with a rocky bright white head. To the nose there are scents of raspberry jam, yeast and sweet malt. First taste had a very strong purfume taste that didn’t really go away. Very thin as far as the mouthfeel went. This beer is lacking something. Watery finish with nothing but cheap purfume lingering.

The colour is a misty reddish gold and the carb is livly .Decent mix of raspberry and wheat beer flavor,. But, there is a slight metalic after taste to the thing that bothers me a little and keeps me from giving it a better rating.

500mL bottle from the LCBO. Pours an orangish-brown with a tiny white head. Aroma is interesting, wheat malts and yeast with some rasberry tartness on top. Pretty sharp smelling actually, implying decent hops in this one. Flavour is OKAY at best, not really wheat beerish, but with that dull and unpleasant dryness I get sometimes from flavoured wheats. Decent rasberry flavour in the finish, a touch tart, but the flat sort of dull dryness really bugs me. Over-carbonated as well, another thing that tends to be a turn-off for me. It gets a bit better as it warms though, and I’m actually able to drink it all, unlike the pomegranate wheat from this same brewer. The berry tartness and hop sharpness are the aspects that keep me drinking it. I just have to swirl the glass a lot to kill some of the excessive effervesence.

Pours a cloudy brownish-orange with no head. Sweet wheaty aroma, light raspberry. Watery, light wheat malt taste with a decent gravity not to completely bore. Light raspberry, nothing bold about this beer at all. Low carb, thin body. Not as bad as I had prepared myself for, but so very bland.