1.7 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 5/20 larsga (4661) - Oslo, NORWAY - SEP 20, 2007
Medium white fine-laced head. Yellow body with light carbonation. Medicinal cardboard aroma with caramelly, rubbery notes. Dry yet sweetish chalky milky rubbery taste with strong cardboard notes. Soft mouthfeel. Dry medicinal cardboard aftertaste. I prefer water. (0.33l bottle at Cardinal, Stavanger.)
1 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 2/20 Sigmund (3711) - Hafrsfjord, NORWAY - SEP 14, 2007
330 ml green bottle, as "Cobra Extra Smooth Alcohol Free Premium Beer", courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. Crystal clear pale golden colour, decent head. Sweetish typical n/a lager aroma: maize (corn) and boiled vegetables. The flavour is sweetish with minimal hops, pretty bad, but the beer is not completely undrinkable when ice cold.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20 SudsMcDuff (3365) - .....Manchester United.........., Texas, USA - SEP 2, 2007
sampled this at Ratanga Junction Theme Park in Cape Town... Now this is a good idea, an alcohol free beer in a hot theme park when the temp is about 100, thats when NA can be great.. Pours with some head, smell is neutral, taste is refreshing but overall lacking in most departments...
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20 DruncanVeasey (5146) - NUNEATON, Blue Square Prem, Warwickshire, ENGLAND - MAY 20, 2007
Authentic pissy pale gold pour with a fluffy white head. Sniffs of straw and cold baked beans. Notes of wheat, lemon, baked beans, chemical sweetener. An authentic Cobra product. Retains its head better than most of the bottle conditioned beers I’ve sampled this week. Weirdly drinkable.
0.9 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 3/20 DonMagi (5599) - bantervile, Bedfordshire, ENGLAND - JAN 30, 2007
Iv been more upset about beers i suppose. Aroma gives nothing. Taste gives very very little, though carbonation is quite fine like thier other beers.
0.7 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 1/20 Englander1986 (51) - Middlesbrough, ENGLAND - NOV 11, 2006
Extremely watery. Not a fan of this and I will never buy it again, the same goes for all other non-alcoholic beers :P
1.9 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 15/20 austinpowers (2827) - New York, New York, USA - MAY 15, 2006
The bottle reads "Krait Free". Fizzy and with a light herbal touch. I initially didn’t realize that this was merely the alcohol free version of Cobra beer. In fact, my bottle said it was brewed in the Netherlands, not at Charles Wells, but Google has convinced me that Krait and Cobra are the same.<!-- br --><!-- br -->
The flavor was of light grains and mostly water, frankly.
1.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20 ALLOVATE (1708) - Butler, WA, AUSTRALIA - MAR 3, 2006
It’s always a laugh to try one of these N/A beers. I am yet to find a single person who has arrived for a Sunday roast clutching a six-pack of these. Remarkably this wasn’t too bad, though appearance wise it was a let down. Pours a dull gold, suffering from a bad case of chill haze and almost devoid in carbonation resulting in only a dollop of cream dead centre of the glass. There’s a light bite of sour apples and grassy hops in the aroma which quickly fades into wet-cardboard and wholemeal muesli. In the mouth; biscuity, ’ginger-snaps’ and dryish breakfast cereal flavours slip through to a tangy, peppery back end with just a touch of bitter, grassy hops before falling off crisp and peppery in the finish. Champagne-like carbonation tickled the tongue and it’s featherweight body allowed me to polish it off quickly and move onto something with a little more alcohol. Dram of whisky, perhaps. Not bad for it’s style!!! (33cL, BBE 04/06)
1.5 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20 leaparsons (6323) - Leicester, Leicestershire, ENGLAND - FEB 16, 2006
Bottle. Bright gold with no head and lots of carbonation. Aromas are sweet caramel, quite skunky with hints of apple. Flavours are sweet caramel with some pepper and metallic notes. Has an odd, almost apple, fruitiness. Finishes with chemical bitterness and pepper.
1.5 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20 Bov (7354) - Bienne, SWITZERLAND - FEB 5, 2006
very clear and bright golden-orange colour; the little foam disappears quickly; aroma of paperboard with a touch of solvant; sweet and a little bit oily with a light body; no bitterness; flat dusty finish - relatively drinkable for a NA beer
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