Spotted Cow White Wheat
Amsterdam Brewery
- From:
- Amsterdam Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Witbier
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.46 | pDev: 11.27%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 12, 2018
- Added:
- Apr 22, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.51/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.51/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
A decent wit; but a bit of a half-witted name.
First, the beer. Looks and Smells typical of the style, but not distinguished. Tastes come in better, fully refreshing and balanced. Like most wheats, soft in the mouth.
Second, the half-witted part. This beer should not be sold in the U.S... without a lawsuit being put on the importer. "Spotted Cow" is the cash cow of New Glarus which only distributes in Wisconsin, but probably is covered nationwide. Maybe using a foreign company's named brand is fair-game in the insular world of Ontario brewing.... just not a smart game.
Aug 12, 2018First, the beer. Looks and Smells typical of the style, but not distinguished. Tastes come in better, fully refreshing and balanced. Like most wheats, soft in the mouth.
Second, the half-witted part. This beer should not be sold in the U.S... without a lawsuit being put on the importer. "Spotted Cow" is the cash cow of New Glarus which only distributes in Wisconsin, but probably is covered nationwide. Maybe using a foreign company's named brand is fair-game in the insular world of Ontario brewing.... just not a smart game.
Reviewed by pootz from Canada (ON)
2.99/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.99/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
can, pours a hazed gold with a smallish white cap...Aroma is demure, some grains light spice and grassy tones, body is thin, with a wheat malt character and light coriander spice, low hop presence..clean fluid finish...quenching but mild for a witbier
Jun 17, 2018
Rated by eberesford from Canada (ON)
3.63/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.63/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Classic Heffeweissen banana and clove. A bit under carbonation for style.
Jun 03, 2018
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.58/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.58/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
473ml, tall-boy can - why does this beer's name sound so familiar? Oh right - New Glarus has a semi-famous brew called this. What the fuck is it with Canadian breweries having such a lacking knowledge of the ol' Google? Christ on a crutch, man!
This beer pours a mostly clear, medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and chunky bone-white head, which leaves some sparse island group lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of gritty and grainy wheat malt, earthy yeast, weak generic citrus peel, some mild wet stoniness, indistinct dime-store spice, and a touch of plain leafy and weedy green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a lesser wheaten cereal character, still bland earthy spice notes, ethereal hints of domestic citrus rind, a consistent banal yeastiness, and more rather understated leafy, weedy, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its quotidian frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with only a touch of interfering yeasty essence making much of a fuss here. It finishes trending dry, the fading malt and lingering yeast making it just so.
Overall, this is sort of a mild and inoffensive version of the style, nothing really all that wrong, but nothing particularly memorable, by the same sword. Easy to drink, and an otherwise pleasant North American gateway introduction, as such.
Jul 04, 2017This beer pours a mostly clear, medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and chunky bone-white head, which leaves some sparse island group lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of gritty and grainy wheat malt, earthy yeast, weak generic citrus peel, some mild wet stoniness, indistinct dime-store spice, and a touch of plain leafy and weedy green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a lesser wheaten cereal character, still bland earthy spice notes, ethereal hints of domestic citrus rind, a consistent banal yeastiness, and more rather understated leafy, weedy, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its quotidian frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with only a touch of interfering yeasty essence making much of a fuss here. It finishes trending dry, the fading malt and lingering yeast making it just so.
Overall, this is sort of a mild and inoffensive version of the style, nothing really all that wrong, but nothing particularly memorable, by the same sword. Easy to drink, and an otherwise pleasant North American gateway introduction, as such.
Rated by spinrsx from Canada (ON)
3.35/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.35/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Can from the LCBO for around $3.
Jun 12, 2017
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.25/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
473ml can served cold into a pint glass. Purchased from the LCBO for around $3 CDN. Actually the third time I've purchased this beer, the first two ended up being gifts.
Appearance - hazy pale golden color topped with a finger or so of white head. Good clarity and fairly decent head retention modest visible carbonation.
Smell - yeasty aroma but a subtle fried metallic aroma which is weird. I suppose hints of orange and coriander, but there's a certain electrical fire undercurrent ( no pun intended) going on.
Taste - mild with some wheat and I'm getting a spicy note here As well. Maybe my taste bids are fried. Decent wheat with some sweetness but there is some heat to close.
Mouthfeel - light bodied and easy drinking with a slight drying finish.
Overall - a strange spicy wit, but otherwise passable. As another poster mentioned I've had better and I've had worse in the style. Wouldn't repeat.
Apr 26, 2017Appearance - hazy pale golden color topped with a finger or so of white head. Good clarity and fairly decent head retention modest visible carbonation.
Smell - yeasty aroma but a subtle fried metallic aroma which is weird. I suppose hints of orange and coriander, but there's a certain electrical fire undercurrent ( no pun intended) going on.
Taste - mild with some wheat and I'm getting a spicy note here As well. Maybe my taste bids are fried. Decent wheat with some sweetness but there is some heat to close.
Mouthfeel - light bodied and easy drinking with a slight drying finish.
Overall - a strange spicy wit, but otherwise passable. As another poster mentioned I've had better and I've had worse in the style. Wouldn't repeat.
Reviewed by andrenaline from Canada (ON)
3.76/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.76/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours a hazy golden colour with a thin layer of head, little retention and no lacing. Nose is sweet yeast esthers, grassy notes and bready malts. Flavour is much the same with the wheat flavours coming through nicely alongside grassy hops and Belgian sweetness. Smooth and easy drinking with a touch of dryness on the finish.
Apr 22, 2017
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