Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1.5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3

33cl bottle. A clear yellow golden colour. Aroma of artificial citrus lemonade, zest. Taste of sweet citrus lemonade, sugar.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 1.5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5

Brausegeruch. Süßer Zitrusgeschmack, Limonade. Mit der Zeit milder und dadurch trinkbar, lecker ist aber anders. 10/3/5/3/6/3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5

An already utterly infernal beer getting the non-alcoholic treatment: rarely have my hopes been lower than for this one. It is even unrateable on Ratebeer, probably because it is in essence a malt drink that has never undergone fermentation - but who am I to say what the impenetrable ways of this brewery are to create a product like this... Needs further investigation I suppose, so for the time being, here is my review. Thick and moussy, snow white, lightly but consistently lacing, initially quite stable but eventually dissolving head on a crystal clear, warm 'metallic' old-golden beer with vaguely orangey tinge and visible sparkling - looks like beer alright, but I fear that is where all comparison will end... Aroma initially lightstruck (those damn 'cat pee' mercaptans) but once this fades a bit (though never completely), pure and simple soda-like aromas appear: industrial ice tea, Fanta Lemon, granular sugar, lemon-scented hand soap, white candi syrup, wet white paper, mineral water. Sugary onset as expected, combined with ascorbic acid into a very lemonade-like profile, fizzy and thin with watery body; sugary sweetness and artificial ascorbic acid simply continue all the way through, with an ice tea- and Fanta-like effect, but lacking even the slightest trace of 'beeriness', the barley malt that is supposed to be in here does absolutely nothing. Sticky 'white' sugariness and artificial lemon flavour (again, as in ice tea) cling to the teeth and though a very faint and brief bitterish 'echo' is noticeable faraway in the background, probably linked closer to the added lemon aromas than to the hop extract mentioned on the label. Well, you guessed it: the only thing 'beery' about this are its looks (at least until the head is completely gone) and that lightstruck effect perhaps. I had Radlers and other flavoured low-alcoholic 'near-beers' that were even worse than this though, so if you drink this as the malt-based soda it basically is and keep ice tea or lemonade in mind instead of beer, as it is intended, I reluctantly admit that there is worse to drink in this world.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

33 cl. bottle @ home.
Clear golden with a loose white head. Citrus aroma. Sweet taste with a sweet finish. Basically a non-alcoholic radler

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