Kaliber

Brewed by St. James’s Gate (Diageo)
Style: Low Alcohol
Dublin, Ireland

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Bottled. Golden with a large steady head. Hoppy, bready and sweetish aroma and flavour. Too thin but fine to be a NA.

[1656-20080903] 12floz bottle. Honey sweet flowers aroma has notes of raisin. Clear, dark orange body with a quick white foamy head. Honey and dandelions flavour is mostly honeyed raisins and corn grains. Light body. Seems well-made but not enjoyable with its super honey.
<i>(@ Skagway brewpub; Skagway, AK)</i>

Why would I go into a pub (The Clock, Solihull, West Midlands) and buy a non-alcoholic beer? Am I that desperate for a scoop? Perhaps it’s because the other beers on offer are Tetleys Smoothflow and Carling. I can see what they’re doing with this brew. It looks fine: old gold colour with a white head. The aroma is sweet and malty. The initial taste is quite a promising toast and marmalade... but then you taste the fizz and a chemical sweetness that reminds you of cheap candy and you note there’s no bitterness... The strangest thing is that I felt quite mellow and light-headed afterwards.

Bottle. Amber pour with a short white head. Aroma is grainy with stewed veggies and maybe canned meat. Taste is also very grainy with soft malt notes and a light metallic tinge. After the first couple sips, the flavor blends together. Mainly cereal, grains, sweet malt, and light metallic notes. Body is light-medium and bubbly like carbonated water. Slight caramel towards the end along with more grains, cereal notes and bitter notes.

Has a decent looking light copper appearance with a light head that dissipates quite quickly. Faint, sweet aroma of corn syrup. The flavor is a bit disjointed - sticky sweet, a bit of a worty malt-like essence to it but slightly cloying. The mouthfeel is rather sticky. Not the best NA.

0.33 l bottle from Systembolaget. Golden color. Grainy rye porridge like aroma with notes of apple. Porridge flavor with hints of grass, honey, apple and paper. Almost no hops, hint of bitterness. Not beery at all, more like a weak liquid grain porridge.

UPDATED: MAR 8, 2007 Bottled. Clear golden colour. Big creamy, off-white head(poured in a big Satan-tulip). Compost, plug-hole aroma. Thin flavour and mouthfeel with almost no taste at all. When warmed up, honey pastilles are notable. No bitterness.

Bottle, 33 cl. Clear yellow, medium fluffy white head. Aroma reminds me of sour dough, with some sticky sweet notes. Watery.