(416) Urban Wheat
Amsterdam Brewery
- From:
- Amsterdam Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 4.16%
- Score:
- 74
- Avg:
- 3.05 | pDev: 14.43%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 10
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 08, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 07, 2011
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
74
Okay
74
Okay
The modern taste in beer - (416) Urban Wheat is an all natural, unpasteurized, unfiltered wheat beer with a distinct citrus aroma and mild taste. We brewed this beer in celebration of our 25 years of brewing in Toronto and as a way to commemorate this great city in which we grew up. (416) Urban Wheat is brewed with a delicate combination of Sorachi Ace, Galaxy and Cascade hops giving it a beautifully citrus aroma all balanced with a full wheat body. Wonderfully refreshing and brewed to 4.16% ABV, (416) Urban Wheat is a beer fit to celebrate any occasion.
15 IBU
15 IBU
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Reviewed by cyrenaica from Canada (ON)
3.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
355ml bottle
4.16% ABV
C'est What? (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
February 3, 2012
The beer poured a clear gold colour with a slight haze and almost no head. The aroma was wheat, grass, and some floral hops. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour was wheat and some mild citrus.
Jun 08, 20174.16% ABV
C'est What? (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
February 3, 2012
The beer poured a clear gold colour with a slight haze and almost no head. The aroma was wheat, grass, and some floral hops. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour was wheat and some mild citrus.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
2.83/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
2.83/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
473 mL can from the LCBO, one of four beers in their Entertainer sampler pack (and one of two within the pack that I have not yet tried). This beer seems to have gone through some sort of re-imagining over the last few months - the packaging now refers to it as 416 Local Lager rather than 416 Urban Wheat, which would seem to imply that this has gone from an American Pale Wheat Ale to a light lager. Served ice cold.
Pours a bright, clear golden-yellow colour, highly effervescent, and topped with about one finger of frothy, white head that soon sublimates into a thin, dense cap. It leaves behind a few smears of sticky lacing, but in general it's a pretty standard-looking pale lager. Subtle, clean aroma with no interesting features - grainy malt sweetness, yeast and grassy hay are the only things I can confidently identify. Quite bland, really.
And bland might as well be the word of the day, because the flavour is every bit as uninteresting as the aroma. Pale malt sweetness provides the bulk of the flavour, which gradually gives way to the light, citrusy, somewhat grassy finish. Finishes on the dry side, with some metallicity. Thin-bodied and quite watery, with moderate carbonation for a pale lager. It starts off fairly crisp and refreshing; well-suited for a hot summer's evening, although you'll want to polish off the glass quickly before it starts getting warmer and less enjoyable.
Final Grade: 2.83, a mediocre C. I never had a chance to try Amsterdam's 416 Local Lager prior to its apparent recipe change, but I seriously can't imagine the old version being any worse than the current incarnation. To be fair, it's fairly clean-tasting, and has no truly offensive features. It's just extremely bland. That being said, at 4.16% this is pretty much just a light lager, so this probably isn't being brewed to cater to the beer geek crowd. The only reason I'd recommend this to anyone is if they're in the market for a decent light beer; otherwise, you're better off spending your money on something else.
Jul 14, 2013Pours a bright, clear golden-yellow colour, highly effervescent, and topped with about one finger of frothy, white head that soon sublimates into a thin, dense cap. It leaves behind a few smears of sticky lacing, but in general it's a pretty standard-looking pale lager. Subtle, clean aroma with no interesting features - grainy malt sweetness, yeast and grassy hay are the only things I can confidently identify. Quite bland, really.
And bland might as well be the word of the day, because the flavour is every bit as uninteresting as the aroma. Pale malt sweetness provides the bulk of the flavour, which gradually gives way to the light, citrusy, somewhat grassy finish. Finishes on the dry side, with some metallicity. Thin-bodied and quite watery, with moderate carbonation for a pale lager. It starts off fairly crisp and refreshing; well-suited for a hot summer's evening, although you'll want to polish off the glass quickly before it starts getting warmer and less enjoyable.
Final Grade: 2.83, a mediocre C. I never had a chance to try Amsterdam's 416 Local Lager prior to its apparent recipe change, but I seriously can't imagine the old version being any worse than the current incarnation. To be fair, it's fairly clean-tasting, and has no truly offensive features. It's just extremely bland. That being said, at 4.16% this is pretty much just a light lager, so this probably isn't being brewed to cater to the beer geek crowd. The only reason I'd recommend this to anyone is if they're in the market for a decent light beer; otherwise, you're better off spending your money on something else.
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