1.1 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 4/20
(Bottle 33 cl) Clear, golden with a small, white head leaving laces. Weak aroma of malt. Extremely thin and watery, almost no malt feel and an edge of cardboard. Absolutely no bitterness. This is damn close to water. 050208
1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 8/20
Another one from the archives (but I have had as recently as New Year 2011). I recall a distinct pineapple aroma from a beer that was sparkling light straw with a voluminous, fluffy head. Flavours were marginal to non-existent, but did the job in getting me past a police check-point at 2am as six of these was all I’d had to drink. What a good boy.
1.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 5/20
Bottled. A golden beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of unfermented grain. The flavor is sweet and is dominated by unfermented grain. The body is thin.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Judging this within its own peer group of the low-alcohol niche, it stands up quite nicely. Clean grainy pale malt aroma and flavour, none of the apple-juice character that seems to curse this style so often. Low hop bitterness adds a little character. Thin, to be sure, but that’s not a surprise.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Tasted 16/12/2007. Bottle at the SOBA HomeBrewFest (when will a homebrewer make a beer for the driver?). Bubblegum, soda water, a very mild hint of grain-like sweetness, little to no hop character - not even the metallic Mac’s Gold hop. Nothing wrong with it - except that it doesn’t taste like beer.
1.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Light golden clear body with normal size head. Sweet nose in some strange way with a little citrus. Very light feeling and short neutral aftertaste.
1.4 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Bottled. Clear golden, rich head. Papery malt aroma.Sweet and very thin, the body just falls through. There is some grassy bitterness, but rasinyn sweet malt flavours dominates, like in a malta. Might be nearly as good as water if you need to stay sober, but enjoyable it is not.
1.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Surprisingly good for a beer of this ABV. Not surprisingly this is still deserving of a light beer rating
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
clear amber, sweet flavour, malty nose.
wow 1% with full flavour.
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