Amsterdam Blonde Lager
Natural Blonde is a creamy gold lager with noticable malt flavor and a hint of hop nose.
2.5
165 reviews
Toronto, Canada
Community reviews
At a pub on college street with Jun. The server recommended it as "a lager much better than Canadian".
Golden color. Citrus aroma and taste. Really Hoppy. Like it. Good as a first round.
Bready malt, mild honey, grassy hops, dry finish. Quite watery, nowhere near as good as their brewpub creations, almost feels like a macro lager...
On tap at the brewery. Pours transparent golden with a white head. Aroma of pale malts, light floral hops, and some light toast/bread. Average to lighter texture. Good for the style. Similar to their 416 but less hoppy.
Appearance is white head and clear yellow. Aroma is malty. Taste is light and unimpressive. Overall just a light beer, that’s it.
Pours a clear straw colour with little head and very fine, almost invisible carbonation.
Aromas are of light citrus, with a slight hint of wet cardboard in the background. A smidgen of honey too.
Tastes are fairly sweet citrus fruits, with some apple in the background. Each mouthful gives the impression it is watery, but then it always finishes with more substance than expected on the swallow and after taste.. An extremely quaffable beer.
Can from the LCBO. Very pale slightly hazy amber with a small white head that doesn’t last. Nose is faint grain, grass and honey. Light sweet start with a bit of grassy hop bitterness in the middle and a short crisp finish. Mouth is light with soft carbonation. Good for a pale lager...
Aroma: Malt: Light honey. Hops: Light musty, Other: Medium-light metallic. No DMS, no diecetyl.
Appearance: Clear gold body. Medium. white, frothy head. Good retention.
Flavour: Malt: Medium, sweet, grainy/bready. Hops: Light, musty. Balance: Malt sweetness orientated, but enough bitterness to not make it cloying. Medium-dry finish with a bit of a bite.
Mouthfeel: Light body, medium-high carbonation. Crisp.
Overall: An enjoyable, easy drinking beer, but smelling of metal. Sweet, but not cloying. The metallic aroma is overpowering the other, already subtle aromas. The can was rinsed and wiped to ensure no metallic residue on the can. Fix the metallic smell. Too sweet to have more than a few of. The hops also seems wrong for the beer.
473 ml can, poured. Thanks Amanda and Wimpie!
1B. Standard American Lager
Apparence: D?une couleur jaune pâle translucide, elle est coiffée d?une bonne mousse d?une bonne durée. Effervescence quasi inexistante.
Arômes: Au nez, ce sont des notes de malt et de fraîcheurs avec une touche d’agrumes.
Saveurs: Très, très simple au goût. Léger goût de céréales qui ne dure pas et c’est tout. Un peu de fraîcheur, aucune effervescence, ni amertume.
Fiche technique
Style: Pale Ale
Format: 473 ml
Taux d?alcool: 5%
From can, pours a bright golden colour with a head that quickly dissipates. Aromas of grain and a slightly fruity. It was definately a nice flavorful brew
Never really felt like a lager to me, which was a good thing. Had to much taste to be a lager. Had a nice pale malt taste to it with bread and hay. Aftertaste was of mild hopping and was very refreshing on my parent’s veranda, but most beers are. Impressive for a lager to say the least.
Not terrible? Pretty great for a Pale Lager if you ask me. Not much to say, inoffensive and hugely preferable to most offerings of the style to be had around here. It has sweet honey, corn, grass, hay and cereal going for it. Crisp feel and lively carbonation. This lager has more positives than most lagers can claim.
On tap at the Amsterdam Brewhouse, Toronto waterfront. Straw coloured with a ring of white head; fruity aroma; grainy body; and a light touch of spice to finish.
Draft. Pours blonde as the name would suggest. Thin fizzy white head. Mild malt aroma. Taste is fairly thin too, malt, some hay and cereal. Body is a bit watery.
On tap, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Nose and flavour brings out biscuity notes, sweet cereal malts, and a mild floral hop content. Easy drinking, but pretty weak. Decent.
Not much going on here. Light flavour with a touch of hops and malt. Light golden with a slightly grassy nose.
Bottle @ Chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig. The pour’s gold with a small head. The nose is pretty papery. Honeyed grain. The taste is of white grape, some bread slathered in honey. fizzy light body. A touch tinny. Overall, not completely offensive.
Slightly malty aroma. Clear gold colour. Slight body with mild carbonation. Slight sweetness, with a slight cereal flavour. Decent beer, but nothing too interesting
Super clear brew with yellow colour. Muted aroma but there is real strong dry hay and barnyard like quality. On the palate it is watery, light and has a fast flavour profile. boring and forgettable.
Can - Grains and a bit of the Euro style skunk. Clear gold with a bubbly thin head. Pale, light, flavorful for a pale lager, but still a pale lager.
Can 473ml. @ [ (chriso Pre-GBBF Shindig) by chriso - London ].
Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, hay, straw, pale malt, vegetables, light hoppy. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average duration, vegetables, hay, malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20130810]
Cool, crisp, easy drinking lager. Very universal food pairings. Great for party pleasers.
10th August 2013
ChrisO’s Pre GBBF ’Are You Scottish?’ tasting. Paleish gold beer, little white head. Light dry pale malt, slightly papery. Tiny bit of citrus. Finishes light and dry.
Can. Pours a pale golden colour with an off white thin head. Aroma of malt maybe. Flavour is thin with hints of sulfur and a slight malt flavour. Finish is slightly sweet and warming. Meh.
Not my usual style, but on the hot patio sometimes you need a lighter beer - this is one of the best in the city. Subtle malt back makes it more than a throw-away light beer, has enough body to warrant drinking another after your first.
473ml can pours a golden color with a finger of white head that leaves some decent lacing on the glass. Aroma is grass and grains. Taste is a grainy malt sweetness with a grassy and spicy hop bitterness. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Only slightly better than a typical macro lager. I was expecting better balanced and higher quality beer than this.
Not a bad drinking lager. Pours a standard pale lager yellow. Some aromas of grain. Flavours are mild hop bitterness and sweet grains. Nothing special.
47.3 cl can. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is grassy, herbal. Bitter, toasted malty and light cornish to grassy. Dry and malty finish.
There is not much taste to this beer. But just enough to be better then your normal major mass produced lager. The Amsterdam brewery has a few decent beers, there IPA Boneshaker being really good, but I wouldn’t buy this beer again.
Bottle. Poured a golden yellow color with a white head. Grass, some honey sweetness, and stale hops.
On tap. Clear golden colour, some white head that does not stay. Medium carbonation. Bready (dough) aroma, some apple notes and green malt. Taste of grain and a hint of grassy, herbal hops. Refreshing but nothing special. Good for lunch at the patio in the summer.