Frederik Vaba

Brewed by Viru Õlu (Harboe)
Style: Low Alcohol
Haljala, Estonia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Didn’t he play for Arsenal a couple of seasons back? Bottle, exported to Finland and drank in my hotel room in Helsinki. Gold with a clinging white lid, lace and what looks like fine bits in suspension (?). Honey and branflakes aroma. Faintly coniferous hop, honey and rust taste. Almost feels like a beer; so much nicer than Scandic Grand Marina tapwater. Actually never so enjoyed a no alcohol.

rotten taste like so many alcohol free beers have. at first I doubted if I could finish it.

Bottle. Looks like a regular lager, head is even better looking than most of them. Aroma is sweet like pineapple juice and it also has some zoo smells which is not very inviting. Taste is not totally bad, it has apple and some sticky caramel. Not good but I finished it.

Medium offwhite head. Yellow body with vigourous carbonation. Straw, caramel, and grain aroma with rubbery notes. Dry-sweetish caramelly straw taste. Mid-bodied. Smoothish mouthfeel. Dry resiny straw aftertaste. Decent. (0.5l bottle, some Tallinn supermarket.)

500ml Bottle - Golden in colour with a foamy white head. Grainy aroma with a citrus hint along with some malt. Grainy and malty taste with a citrus hint featuring again. Fairly drinkable and refreshing for a non-alcoholic beer.

Bottle, 0%. Bready aroma. The flavour is sweet and bready. Sharp bitterness.

500ml bottle.
Pale gold, brief head. Big sweet grainy weetabix and rabbit-food aroma. Fizzy palate. Sweet taste and also a husky grainy taste too, but they aren’t well integrated at all. Some hops, but muted and like hop extract. Thinking about it, this isn’t just rabbit food, it’s the whole hutch, including the pissed-on wood shavings. Odd combination of good and bad tastes. Not my cup of tea.

Bottled. Golden colour with mediumsized slightly off-white head. Aroma is pretty much grass, earth, cardboard and some mild rubbery notes. Flavour is very much the same, but also has some maltyness in it.

Moderate malty aroma. Frothy initial apperance. Off-white head color. Virtually none lacing. Mostly diminishing longevity. Clear body. Yellow body hue. Moderate bitter initial flavor. Light palate.

Bottle. Creamy white good mostly deminishin ´g head. DArk yellow colour. Heavy bready aroma. Sweet ugly flavor. Short finish, but not as watery as other 0% ABV.