KLB Raspberry Wheat Beer - Amsterdam Brewing Company

Stonepot

Ontario (Canada)

3.95/5  rDev +23.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

I thought this was great. Strong smell and taste of raspberries, with a creamy head and a nice long fruity finish. I got a bit tired of it towards the end, and would not have two on the bounce, but one was a great way to start an afternoon drinking session.

Serving type: can

09-26-2009 18:37:11 | More by Stonepot

TheBeeraholic

Ontario (Canada)

3/5  rDev -6.3%

06-16-2013 11:06:25 | More by TheBeeraholic

chadmbogo

Ontario (Canada)

3.5/5  rDev +9.4%

05-02-2013 13:55:21 | More by chadmbogo

NightINgale

Quebec (Canada)

4/5  rDev +25%

04-13-2013 06:48:22 | More by NightINgale

DaPan

Ontario (Canada)

1.75/5  rDev -45.3%

02-12-2013 03:38:47 | More by DaPan

SebD

Ontario (Canada)

3.25/5  rDev +1.6%

01-17-2013 21:27:17 | More by SebD

Kremlock

Ontario (Canada)

3.43/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

A: Orange/light copper colour. Pours a nice white head that drops to a thin layer and than laces the glace a bit.

S: This is all raspberry flavour. Smells a bit like raspberry medication

T: Raspberries up front with hints of caramel malts. The wheat then comes in to clean up the taste along with the carbonation.

M: has a light feel, well carbonated to clean things up with a nice dry finish.

O: Good beer for what it is. Personally I'm not into putting fruits into the beer but this is good. They say it's a raspberry infusion...whatever that means. So for something that is all year and not seasonal (fresh berries!?!?) I give it a thumbs up.

Serving type: can

10-25-2012 00:31:27 | More by Kremlock

Molson2000

Ontario (Canada)

2/5  rDev -37.5%

09-13-2012 01:14:21 | More by Molson2000

Vyronian

Ontario (Canada)

3.5/5  rDev +9.4%

08-13-2012 00:14:04 | More by Vyronian

hopsolutely

Ontario (Canada)

3.33/5  rDev +4.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

A simple beer that I would happily serve on any summer day to any non-hophead. Light and refreshing, may well be a good introductory beer for anyone just starting into the world of flavour.

Can pours like a golden, clear lager with a blush of pinky purple. The white head dissipates quickly. Aroma is raspberry-forward with a background of bready malts. Flavour likewise is very raspberry-focused, but not as overwhelmingly sweet as I'd feared. The wheat is well hidden, but golden malted barley is definitely present.

Not my own personal beverage choice, but miles ahead of any BudLL or CoorsLIT...

Serving type: can

08-12-2012 17:03:07 | More by hopsolutely

hotsudge

Ontario (Canada)

3/5  rDev -6.3%

08-12-2012 01:27:31 | More by hotsudge

downtownbrown

Ontario (Canada)

3.5/5  rDev +9.4%

05-21-2012 21:45:05 | More by downtownbrown

MattPS

Ontario (Canada)

4.25/5  rDev +32.8%

05-09-2012 22:21:48 | More by MattPS

TheSevenDuffs

Ontario (Canada)

2.68/5  rDev -16.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Can to pint glass.

A - Pale straw yellow with a small amount of bubbly white head that immediately disappeared.

S - Syrupy raspberry aroma up front with a mild of bready malt aroma in the background.

T - A huge artificial raspberry flavour up front that is very sweet and syrupy dominates and almost completely overpowers a very mild bready malt presence.

M - Light body; light to moderate carbonation.

O - One dimensional, which wouldn't have been quite so bad if the raspberry flavour was so syrupy and artificial.

Serving type: can

03-07-2012 00:57:39 | More by TheSevenDuffs

ChrisCage

Alberta (Canada)

3.73/5  rDev +16.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Thanks to drewsy for the trade!

A- Pours a very clear coppery color, with a tinge of sunrise orange, and there appears to be plenty of carbonation rising to the top rather quickly. The head isn't very impressive however upon pouring, as it is only a whiff of thin foam covering the liquid. Lacing is alright, as thin clumps of bubbly goodness clings to the side of the glass. Overall I'd put this slightly above average appearance wise.

S- This has a general dryness about it, and I don't mind it in this case! There is a fresh raspberry fruitiness that smells about right as far as how powerful it is, some grainy wheat berries and perhaps a slight bitterness right at the end. Mild overall, but nice...

T- I quite like this! The flavors follow the aroma closely; everything is mild but balanced well between sweet and tart. The beginning contains the tart berry fruit, while the middle softens to the dry wheat malt and the finish doesn't have any real bitterness, but rather a yeasty quality that reminds me of fresh white bread.

M- Thin bodied and plenty of palate scrubbing carbonation! I get a good sense of the summer in this beer...it is very refreshing, crisp and clean tasting.

O- I think this is a very drinkable beer that would be perfectly suited for sitting on the patio during hot weather and passing the afternoon away. Foodwise, this would pair very well with a freshly prepared spinach salad, and is balanced well enough to hang with a fruit bowl for dessert. I recommend this beer and would love to see it in my neck of the woods!

Serving type: can

01-11-2012 03:56:04 | More by ChrisCage

ThinkAgain

Ontario (Canada)

3.5/5  rDev +9.4%

01-06-2012 16:08:05 | More by ThinkAgain

RedAleMan

Ontario (Canada)

3.25/5  rDev +1.6%

12-10-2011 19:45:09 | More by RedAleMan

kelvarnsen

Ontario (Canada)

3.75/5  rDev +17.2%

11-30-2011 16:26:28 | More by kelvarnsen

thehyperduck

Ontario (Canada)

3/5  rDev -6.3%
look: 2 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3

Tallboy can picked up at the LCBO; no apparent freshness date.

Pours a lovely light amber colour, bright and clear in its complexion. I was purposefully aggressive with the pour, but the effort was for naught - barely any head was produced, just a thin, fizzy cap that soon evaporated. Probably the flattest beer pour I have ever seen. The aroma is dominated by wheat malt, with a faint echo of tart raspberries in the background. Pretty simple, but it's pleasant, and the fact that the fruit doesn't dominate everything else completely (like a lot of the fruit beers I have tried) is appreciated.

The taste is very similar in its simplicity - wheat malt, maybe a touch of honey at the start of the sip, which leads into some slightly sour raspberry flavor. Kind of a butterscotch-with-raspberries feel to the flavour profile. There's a weird medicinal/syrupy aftertaste that kind of ruins what would otherwise be a nice, simple, refreshing wheat beer. Light-bodied, and kind of watery. This one could stand to be a bit more heavily carbonated but I suppose it's still a crisp brew.

Pretty mediocre, both as a fruit beer and a pale wheat ale - blends some characteristics of each style, but the end result is a bland and mostly unsatisfying brew that isn't sure what it should be. Like Grasshopper with some raspberry extract thrown in. Far more appropriate for the summer months. This is something I doubt I'll revisit, and wouldn't recommend unless someone were looking for a sessionable fruit beer that isn't likely to be mistaken for a raspberry cooler.

Serving type: can

11-06-2011 03:06:27 | More by thehyperduck

Antikythera

New York

4/5  rDev +25%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Appearance: golden-amber with a bit of red. Really pretty. Fine creamy head that never quite goes away.

Smell: wheaty with a faint bit of raspberry.

Taste: ... same. Wheat and yeast, a bit of a sour note that is not at all unpleasant. The raspberry is so faint that it's easier to smell than taste.

Mouthfeel: a little fizzy on the tongue, a lingering sour slippery feeling. Sounds awful but I can't figure out another way to describe that. It's just really nice.

Overall: familiarity results in taking things for granted. Why haven't I reviewed this yet? It's my go-to summer beer. The first time I tried it I was disappointed, because I had been drinking lambics previously and wasn't impressed with the North American style of fruit beer (basically a wheat beer that may or may not have had a Strawberry Shortcake doll bathing in it for about thirty seconds). But I got to know it and I like the style for itself (rather than comparing it to lambics), and this is the best representative.

Serving type: can

08-04-2011 05:43:42 | More by Antikythera

spinrsx

Ontario (Canada)

2.55/5  rDev -20.3%
look: 1.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

473ml Can

Appearance – Clear amber colour with an very small size fizzy off-white coloured head. There is an average amount of carbonation showing and there is no lacing. The head lasted for around 1 minute before it was gone.

Smell - Grains, bread, malts, raspberries

Taste & Mouth - The beer has an above average amount of carbonation. I can taste breads/grains mixed with malts and of course raspberries. There is also a little bit of a caramel flavour going on. It finishes with a malty raspberry aftertaste.

Overall – I'm really not a huge fan of fruit beers, so there wasn't much chance that was going to enjoy this. I will say that the taste did grow on me as progressed through the beer. I'll also add that the beer had one of the worst appearances I've ever seen.. there was basically no head or lacing.

Serving type: can

07-21-2011 16:39:56 | More by spinrsx

Roke87

Ontario (Canada)

3.38/5  rDev +5.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3

473 mL can, chilled and poured into a pilsner glass.

Appearance- Pours a clear pale amber colour with a massive three fingers of soapy white head that very quickly dissipates to a little bubbly top with a very thin ring that leaves very minimal to almost no head throughout the glass till finish.

Smell- Really nice raspberry smells coming from this one, I didn’t get a whole lot of the raspberry while I was pouring it but once you put your nose up to the glass it is definitely there; some very mild wheat aromas coming through as well although the raspberry is very dominant.

Taste- Pretty much just like the aromas, well in a way. I am getting a weird taste right off the bat that I really can’t put my finger on, then the raspberry taste really comes through a dominates finishing with a sweet raspberry taste as well. I do get a mild hint of wheat but other than the raspberries there is not too much else going on in this one.

Mouthfeel- Very light bodied with below average carbonation, actually it is almost none existent as the beer warms up a bit, kind of saddening really.

Overall- Hey, if fruity beers are your thing, and you’re in the mood for a raspberry tasting beer this one is pretty much exactly what it says it is, a raspberry beer! I rather liked the raspberry taste from this one, it tasted like real fruit and not some engineered candy taste like other fruit beers can have. Would be a good summer sipper if cold as ice on a hot summer day, which is why I even bought a fruit beer in the first place. Not sure if I would come back to this one again but it wasn’t a fail that’s for sure, depends what fruit I feel like I want to drink if I ever want to drink one again.

Serving type: can

06-19-2011 05:16:53 | More by Roke87

bryehn

Ontario (Canada)

3.48/5  rDev +8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Pours a rusty toasted amber colour with a small, fleeting head that hangs around as a thin collar. Lots of visible fine carbonation.

Smells of raspberry flavour, roasted malt and honey. Always smells mild, but fresh.

Tastes of toasted wheat, raspberry flavour that doesn't taste too unnatural and has an earthiness about it. Also has a brewed tea tone in the finish.

Light-bodied with a medium carbonation, gives a sort of creamy feel. Very dry and tart aftertaste.

An easy-drinking beer with a decent raspberry flavour that I always seem to enjoy.

Serving type: can

03-30-2011 19:43:19 | More by bryehn

JohnnyBarman

Ontario (Canada)

3.03/5  rDev -5.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5

I used to drink this beer a long time ago when it was brewed by KLB, and enjoyed it a great deal - it tastes a lot different to me now, but I think it more has to do with my changing tastes than anything.

Poured into a nonic. A pale, pale amber brew, clear, and with an inch of head that beats a hasty retreat. No head, no lacing...nothin'. Looks more like a cider, or a rose wine than a beer.

Nose is raspberry jam, lemon, mild maltage.

Tart, with a mild malty-lemon flavor, and then the raspberry kicks in, which isn't bad, but certainly lacks the fine character of fresh raspberries that you can find in other variations of this sort of brew. A touch of mild caramel and wheat as well, but only faint. Finishes dry and with a sharp, unpleasant metallic tang. Drinkable, but not nearly as fun as I remember it.

Watery, carbonation is abrasive. Leaves a dry feeling on the tongue.

I'll still drink this, but I won't seek it out the way I used to. Still, on a hot summers day, this would go great right out of the can (last summer, it certainly did), so I'll probably save my next one till then.

Serving type: bottle

02-08-2011 02:00:50 | More by JohnnyBarman

Mit

Ontario (Canada)

3.53/5  rDev +10.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

One of the longstanding fruit beers in Ontario. This and MacAuslans are reliable fall backs when I can't think of things I want to buy.

a-nice clear deep golden colour with a short lived head.

s- slight rasberry notes with some slight maltiness.

t-fermented rasberry with that slight maltiness again rounded out by a very slight bitterness.

m-light in keeping with a 4.5 alc beer.

d-very drinkable...I could drink these all day while working outside.

Serving type: bottle

03-01-2010 22:34:58 | More by Mit