Martens Low Carbohydrate

Had this beer on 8/4/2005. Aroma is a faint sweet malt scent. Color is bright crisp gold with good carbonation and a thin head. Taste is smooth, and sweet. Starting with a light body it goes down smooth with a creamy feel coming on. The finish in with this creamy feel turning a bit sweet and ending with a light fizz. Its a bit bland for my taste but I guess this is what you get from a low carb beer.

Always see through beer, theres a reason this was $2.99 for a 6-pack. Way too carbonated and talking about malt flavor is pointless because its almost immediately an afgterthought after drinking.

While I was pouring this beer from the bottle to my glass, I was watching the stream of liquid. Where’s the color? There’s no color. Looking in the glass, I see that there is color afterall, but it is one of the lightest yellow beers that I’ve ever seen. Absoultely no head whatsoever, but it is carbonated. Surprisingly, there was an aroma. I wasn’t expecting any. To me it smelled like a macrobeer. What is that smell, anyway? Its not hops. Its not malt. Its not alcohol. What is it? Adjuncts? Aluminum? Heck, I don’t know. Smells like Busch Light to me. OK, dare I taste it? Yes, I do. Thin. No real taste, but something catches the middle of my tongue and it has a faintly burning sensation like... no wait, that’s the carbonation. It tastes like a somewhat beer-flavored carbonated water. Well, it doesn’t taste terrible. The aftertaste is like that "Bush Light" aroma again, only less so. Apart from the carbonation bite, this beer has next to no character. OK, I expected that from a no-carb beer (even though I’ve never tried one before), but still, I was hoping for just a little bit of Belgian magic. No luck.

Very much a Euro lager in the aroma and flavor. It really isn’t bad, for what it is. Low carbonation. Yellow and only a thin lace of white foam on top of the beer. Light and actually very drinkable. One of the best light, pale lagers I have found. But weird corn and chemical aromas start to come out as it warms, so drink this cold.

Let’s see...you drink something with no flavor or aroma and no discernable positive qualities of any kind...but you don’t gain weight! I guess that’s fair!