I can’t believe I never rated this or my rating was lost at some point. Here I sit in Epcot Biergarten restaurant drinking a 1/2 liter draft: Poured a deep chestnut brown with some dark orange edges, head was creamy beige. Aroma is rich malt, earth, dark fruits, light metallic. Taste is rich roasted malts, richness brings out an almost chocolate flavor, dark fruits, simple but complex in its own way.

Bottle 33cl. from a local Dekamarkt. Hazy straw yloow colour, thin fizzy short-lived white head, no lacing. Aroma and taste lemonade, candy sugar. Refreshing. Drinkable.

Can from a mixed case from Costco.
Pours clear dark mahogany with a medium sized beige head, light lacing. Toasted malts, caramel, nutty, coffee.
Good

330ml can from a mixed pack from Costco.
Pours clear amber with a medium sized beige head, good lacing. Caramel malts, bread, nutty, vanilla with a mild bitterness in the finish.
Good

The non-alcoholic version of this big but still independent German brand, from a can mentioning "< 0.5% alcohol" rather than exactly 0% - 0.5% being the upper limit of what can still legally be sold as alcoholfree, in Germany but also in the Low Countries. Snow white, medium thick, slowly thinning but largely stable head over a crystal clear warm 'old golden' beer with strings of visible sparkling. Aroma of breakfast cereals, white bread sticks, papier maché, wet cotton, grass, plaster, minerals. Smooth cereally onset, somewhat sweetish and rounded, almost white-bready, feeling quite 'pure' but also very monotonous and a tad watery, with sparkling water-like vibes, with a persistent minerality; plaster- and wet white paper-like flavours, something soapy even, but also a grassy hop bittering note in the end, lending more 'fullness' to the finish than it actually has - for the better, of course. Inoffensive, thinnish and bland, but the little flavour that is in here, does match what I expect from a non-alcoholic Pilsener; beats pioneer Clausthaler in that respect, for me at least, even though that same annoying rubbery flavour lingers after swallowing that not just Clausthaler but many other German (and other) alcohol-free pale lagers have.

Slightly watery feel but pretty good beer taste

This can is coming from Amstein, St-Légier, sharing it with my wife, relax at home, an ordinary day, smooth note of autumn with a light beer, malty, a bit sweet, light amd watery, some hop, discreet beer in the German way, light unfiltered beer, not bad, 12.12.22

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