BrewDog Nanny State

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Bitter
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Bottle. Red-brownish beer with a medium-sized, off-white head. Aroma is rich and very fruity with plenty of tropical fruits and pine. Taste is very bitter and a bit fruity. The palate is very poor and watery. An interesting beer, and the best low-alcohol beer I’ve tried so far.

Bottle from Bierkoning. Amber colour with tall head. Malty nose. Very hoppy taste. Obviously very low ABV which is a bummer but the hops are quite nice and even more pronounced. Also nice sweet tastes of malt, caramel. Well done, for a one-off.

Bottle @ Hj Hansen, Odense. Pours amber/reddish with a creamy lasting white head and lacings. Nose is pine, citrus and grapefruit. Low carbonation and a bit thin and watery palate - smooth however. Taste is again citrus and pine - aggresively hoppy. Interesting indeed though the body of course is weak!

Bottle at home. Clear red brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Fruity aroma of hops, grass and pine needles. Fruity flavour of pine needles, citrus and grass with notes of ash tray. Hoppy finish, but light watery.

Bottle at home - shared with Mette. Cleardark red/brown - offwhite head. High hoppy, resin, grass, bitterness, citrus, wooden notes, nice malty, roasted, fruity, caramel, light sweetness, ryebread, dark fruit, dark berries, bulldog, bisquit, herbal. Very nice - high drinkability.

Flaske: Fantastisk flot rød øl med et kæmpe skumhoved. Dejlig duft af citrus humle. Smagen er også dejlig velhumlet. Mundfylden lider dog tydeligt af de meget lave procenter. Med et par procenter mere ville denne øl ligge solidt på den anden side af 4 tallet. Men fantastisk ide, og yderst vellykket øl.

A very strong mild from the Bew Dog people. Extremely low abv retaliation beer to the media criticism received from Brew Dog Tokyo which was stupid anyway. I requested a half on tap. A very mild style arrived. A small fluffy head and dark ish red texture in the glass. A lovely drop of complex character. I felt hints of spices; cereal, and bitter fruit. Hebal hops maybe. An awesome session beer to say the least. If they could release this nationally and other brewers do too we could all enjoy a session whenever we want! Low abv beer is a great slap in the face of the establishment. Mild beer is exactly what needs to be encouraged as it is an old English style which has recently become forgotten about. Before the war mild used to be much stronger abv but since duties and tax mild fell to 3-4% and now a 1.1%! If you want to tell people you can enjoy beer on all forms of abv just not the strong Belgian or the ultra strong bock beers then MILD is the way forward. I would like Brew Dog to bottle this and to sell nationally. Just another style of beer people should not forget. Just like lambic and gueze we need to keep these styles available and away from media criticism. On tap from the Rake. Review from memory.

A fantastic experiment. Ever bothered by brewers claiming they’re required to seek balance between bitter and sweetness (almost always ending in colossal sugar bombs)? You know what unsweetened tea and coffee tastes like. This is beer without sugar. And it’s delicious. Real and strong resinous hop aromas and bitterness - real bitterness - with a strong roasty backbone and finish. Lightly effervescent. Even at 1%, it held up well to coming overseas. No flaws.