Labatt Nordic

Formerly brewed at Labatt Breweries (InBev)
Style: Low Alcohol
London, Canada

Plain brutal. Never drink this. Non-alcoholic for 1 and watered down urine for 2.

2007 vintage, aged since April of that year. From a charming little 355ml can, this little-known gem pours a delightful pale yellow, with lively, enthusiastically sparkling carbonation. The aroma, increases the expectations of something truly exquisite! The flavour, something else! A combination of classic 2-row barley malt, accompanied by its many friends, "The Usual Suspects" as I like to call them, ascending into literal spirals of sweet complexities. This brew is like a well crafted mystery tale, with many significant background characters. A sure-fire winner, this masterful example of the natural wonder that is the non-alcoholic fermented barley-based beverage defies even the highest of expectations in the most well renowned and experienced connoisseur. Remarkable not for its taste, not for its quality, but for its mere EXISTENCE in our unworthy, mortal realm. The very epitome of complex subtlety in beer. Though it defies all boundaries of petty human languages, being beyond words, I shall attempt to describe this, this, masterpiece of Man, fit for the Gods, or perhaps sent here from Them, in one word. Magnificent. Actually, I will create a new term, purely for this magical creation: "Scrumtralescent".

Ha, a friend brought one over as a joke, and he figured i could get a rating out of it. Same ol’ grainy, corny nose. Cooked vegetal flavour, some slight hops..........meh, sale old labatt. I guess for a non-alcoholic beer it aint bad, but seriously.........its just a blue without the booze. gets a .5 to match the alcohol content!

When considering an IPA or even just a regular ol’ amber lager, this beer is obviously not in the same ballpark, but when stacking this up to other low alcohol brews, this is very good, the aroma & color don’t really give it much points, but the flavor & smoothness of the beer are really excellent for being a pale lager-low alcohol combination, has an inviting sweet finish, very well balanced, good solid flavor, with all things considered this beer is very enjoyable, it’s a great brand for one who cannot have a ’regular’ beer with all the alcohol & whatnot

Canette 355ml. Nez de grains de malt pâle aux faibles notes végétales sûres, légèrement métallique avec des notes de maïs sucré et des traces herbeuses. De couleur jaune pâle et transparente. Très mince en bouche avec un pétillement moyen-fort et croustillant ainsi qu’une texture aqueuse. Très léger goût de grains de malt pâle avec des traces végétales (légumes bouillis) lors de l’entrée en bouche suivi d’un léger goût sucré de maïs ainsi que des notes herbeuses en toute fin de gorgée accompagné de notes métalliques. Post-goût presque inexsistant, aux faibles notes métalliques.

This is my mom’s standby beer nowadays - usual club-soda impression and funky weird Labatt malt/mystery grain weak flavoring. Awful. Reall no hops to rescue any beer-like enjoyment. The alcohol is also very lacking. ;)

Okay, this is another one that I found in a little depanneur in Pointe a la Croix PQ, purchased as a single bottle. It has a distinctly different label design from Nordic (Labatt’s other non-alcohol beer), and acually resembles Molson 0.5 quite a bit (with a big difference in that this beer has no "0" in front of their ".5"). Anyway, I wonder whether this is the french version of Nordic, because it essentially is the same beer-- pale, sparkling, watery, and cidery.
Earlier Rating: 2/14/2006 Total Score: 1.2
Not a good sustitute for the real thing. Overly carbonated and tasting like a cider more than a berr. Very appley fruit character, and thin as water. When my wife was pregnant she drank Upper Canada’s non-alcoholic beer, and I recall it being waaaay better. I’ll have to try it again and rate it properly.

Now this is some nasty shit!
Can poured yellow with a thin white head. Skunky corn aroma. Flavor was a nasty corn and skunk, dish rag mixture..no wonder I got it for free! It really was bad!