Nose of an IPA, grapefruit, citrus, tropical fruit. Taste is hoppy, grapefruit, rather bitter. Well balanced. Nice for a no alcohol beer.

Pours darker golden, fairly clear. Medium small white head , but stable and pillowy. Scent is mild caramelly, even a hint of dark malts (though the color is quite light, so I expect they used a very small part roast of a very big part pale, and some cara malts ? ) Taste is bitter, malty, tad caramelly , hints of chocolate. Seems like a take on Brewdog's Nanny state, but it's less balanced, and less extreme. Still noticably no alcohol, enjoyable (better than the Pico Bello ! ) , but still not on par with whats available todaty ( Mikkeller , Brewdog, And more recently some others like northern monk ) . Still, for Belgian No alcohol beer, it's quite good. Thin body, medium to medium high carbo.

It was only a matter of time before the craft beer movement jumped onto alcohol free beers to make them better and more varied and after the commercial success of Pico Bello, I guess BBP declared the time had come for this second version. Thick and frothy, cobweb-lacing, off-white, large- and uneven-bubbled but stable head on a clear, deep and warm 'old gold' coloured beer with strong sparkling rushing upwards from the bottom of the glass. Aroma of dried lemonbalm and dried wormwood leaves, dry grains, a whiff of iron, strawbales, some toasted onion (the Simcoe, I reckon), moist white pepper, white soap, old dried lemon peel, jute bags, old cheese rind somewhere, but very little to none of the promised 'tropical' character. Spritzy onset, dryish, hinting vaguely at dried lemon peel and overripe Granny Smith apple, highly effervescent with a whole lot of minerality, as in carbonated sparkling water - ferrous water, because an iron flavour lurks clearly underneath; slick, evidently thinnish, grainy body, with only the carbonation providing 'body', clear wheat soapiness and dry graininess from the spelt, some old bread crust, soon bittered by the hops in a long, leafy, nearly rooty way, adding some retronasal effects of dried wormwood, old lemon zest and straw, but again hardly anything tropical. Dry, bitter, minerally, grainy ending, quenching and not unpleasant; based on earlier ratings below, I suppose my sample, coming from a supermarket shelf which is hardly the best way to score a beer, has aged a bit already and lost that tropical note in the process. That said, I would rather have this than all those soulless and 'chemical' tasting alcohol-free pale lagers from the macro breweries, even if that wheaty soapiness did bother me a little bit afterwards. Not too bad in this segment, the sheer bitterness of the hops saves the day for me here.

Watery but drinkable non-alcoholic beer. Good bitterness. But Vanderstreek Playground is still the best non-alcoholic beer.

33cl can, BB 03/12/2021.
Dorée claire, col fin crémeux blanc retombant rapidement.
Arôme sur l'effet drêche, retrouve un nez trop axé sur les malts - pas mal de touche de grillé voire de grains de café moulus. Franchement pas mal de difficulté à y trouver les houblons - dont le Simcoe et Sabro qui ont tout de même une capacité à montrer leur caractère tant en bouche que olfactif. Une fine effluve de pin peut se faire ressentir parmi les grains - et cela en cherchant bien car de suite une note grillée/toastée-café revient à la charge. Honnêtement et par rapport à ce qu'annonce la cannette, il n'y a rien de tropical.
Palais - j'ai bcp de mal à trouver les houblons indiqués. Ici le palais est supplanté par des notes de drêche, grains apportant un caractère tombant de suite sur un effet 'cold brewed coffee' - le tout sur une effervescence assez marquée.
Vu les houblons annoncés, dont le Sabro qui a le mérite d'avoir un caractère généreux - ici, rien de tout cela.
Un cran en dessous de la Pico Bella qui arrivait à mettre bcp plus en avant les houblons.
In fine pas mauvaise mais au prix de la cannette, ça fait cher pour de l'eau et qcq soupçons de houblons.

33cl bottle from Delhaize Chazal in Brussels. F: medium, white, almost good retention. C: deep gold, clear. A: orange, tangerine, light toast, bit caramel. T: light malty base, a lot of orange, tangerine, bit caramel, toast, decent long lasting bitterness, soft to medium carbonation, not bad for the style, enjoyed.