Labatt Blue De-Alcoholized Pilsener

Brewed by Labatt Breweries (InBev)
Style: Low Alcohol
London, Canada

Bottle at the no Greg tasting, courtesy of Mr Manning shared with Hogtown Harry, Blankboy, Jerc, and Mabel. Clear yellow (maybe) small white head. Weird/awful artificial buttered popcorn aroma. Awful. Taste - pretty bad - nothing rally - buttered popcorn, water, nothing. Poor.

Bottle (341ml) shared with HogTownHarry, tupalev, jerc & mabel -- courtesy of tupalev & MrManning. Pours a very pale yellow with an average size white head. Aroma of dog excrement. Not an exaggeration, I have a dog, I know. Dear God that smells awful. Flavour’s a tiny bit better, there’s less dog shit but it’s still watery, grainy and full of crap. This is sooo awful, I’m wondering if I rated it too high? i wish I could joke about it but it’s just too unpleasant. Can no one make a good de-alcoholized beer?

2008-04-10. Very pale yellow, small white head fades. Aroma of wet grass, dilute grains, muted creamed corn/buttery notes. Thin flavour, lightly vegetal grainy sweet notes. Wonky. Thin palate. Sometimes, I wonder if it’s really worth rating these things... then Harry goes ahead and brings the ruckus to the sink, spouting off about infant excrement and what not, and I think to myself. "That’s two independent thought alarms in one day. Clearly the children are over-stimulated - Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms!" Seriously that’s what I thought. Bottle courtesy of Tupalev/MrManning

Bottle (341ml). No ClowGr’s tasting, shared with blankboy, jerc, mabel and tupalev, bottle brought by tupalev (via MrManning). Looks terrible - wispy remnant of "head", pale, wan, clear - bleah. Help me decide - is this reminiscent of baby puke or baby shit? Either way it’s totally vile. I’m not drinking this mung - down the drain it goes. Sue me.

Bottle- Pours a pale yellow with a white foamy, short lived froth. I didn’t even have to nose the beer to get the aroma, as I could smell it when I poured it. It reeks of cardboard and corn syrup, with cooked vegetables. The flavour profile matches the aroma, and shows cooked corn with a chemical, cardboard. It’s not hoppy, and not even really malty either. It’s just vegetables and sugary sweetness. Pretty tough to drink for a low alcohol beverage. Never again.

Bottle (sample) at the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association 2008 trade fair. This stuff is even less of a “pilsener” than the real Blue. Very pale yellow colour - almost clear, really - with a small white head. Extremely unpleasant corn syrup character in both the aroma and flavour, and not even a faint hint of hops in the finish to balance the sweetness, making it a completely unrefreshing beverage. It’s brews like this one that give non-alcoholic beers such a bad reputation.