Slightly milky haze when poured, with what looks like a big puffy head, but it fizzes away. Nice New England IPA style hop in the nose. Taste is nice as NA's go. No saccharine or metallic tang to it. Just a hoppy burn on the tongue, and a mild malt backing. Lactose does hold the taste together.

Canned 12/1/25, drunk 1/20/26, as pictured.
Was pretty skeptical of the use of lactose, but it's very minimal. The nose is rather garlicy. Not intensely-so, nor really, problematically-so, but it's certainly the main character. There's enough lemongrass, light grapefruit and dry papaya-like character to take the focus off it. Some bland oat/biscuit character behind it with seemingly low acidity.
Seems even less given to the garlic character in the flavor and I'm pretty impressed with the body here. Somehow the lactose and the oats get the job done. One of the better textures on an NA that I've had, and that's usually their weak point. There's a bit of sweet lactose which detracts, and the hops do have some garlic to them, but by and large, I think there's good bitterness, some interesting lemongrass and tropical notes and a great drinkability to it.