Bottle from Geers. Light hazy blond, white foam. Nose of citrus, grass, some tropical fruit. Taste starts nice citrussy with afterwards some cardboard. Ok, but not the best low alcohol beer.

Bottle. Amber pour. Aroma of caramelised malt, yeast esters, orange, raisin, vanilla, figs and dates. Taste has sticky caramelised malt, raisin, vanilla, caramel, figs, dates, orange zest and some warming booze. Nice one, I like how these ripe fruity flavors come from the malt and yeast.

Belgia pärmiga NEIPA?! Aga miks ka mitte...

Pale blond colour with light haze. Aroma and flavour do have some sweeter tropical fruit notes. Thin finish like with all alcohol free beers but really has a nice lasting bitter aftertaste. Very well made.

Alcohol-free IPA, launched in January and brewed at the Proefbrouwerij. The brewery seems to claim it is the first non-alcoholic IPA, but in reality it is not even the first one in Belgium (considering e.g. BBP's Pico Bello - at the same ABV - was on the market three months earlier). Light gusher, weirdly so, never seen that in an non-alcoholic beer... Quite thick and frothy, tightly cobweb-lacing, snow white, mousy, stable head on a hazed yellow blonde beer with greenish tinge and some loose bubbles rising upwards every now and then. Aroma of lemon bread, raw dough, plaster, withering shallots, baking soda, banana peel, whiffs of lime zest, white hand soap, cold cooked rice, lemongrass, industrial lemon juice from a plastic bottle. Sweetish and sourish onset, light pineapple, unripe banana and green apple notes, fizzy carbonation, very soapy mouthfeel, effervescent tablet effect, but admittedly feeling 'fuller' than expected at only 0.3% ABV. A lemony aspect, sourish and simplistic so feeling artificial, accompanies this doughy, soapy cerealliness to a still very, very soapy ending (the kind of lemon-scented detergent I do the dishes with sometimes), adorned with some retronasal pineapple, lime and lemon aspects, while a soft, late hop bitterness manifests itself - gently so, and paired with a wry,medicine- and very plaster-like aspect many of these modern non-alcoholic beers seem to have - a feature that manages to put me off every single time. Luckily that hop bitterness lingers a bit. In comparison with BBP's Pico Bello, which has a very similar profile, this one is more 'plaster-like' and less convincingly hoppy - which is the least they could have done, considering it is marketed as an IPA. Not such a bad attempt, in all, but if I ever have to stop consuming alcohol for medical reasons or whatever, I hope this low alcohol beer hype will be over and I will turn to beverages that are intended as non-alcoholic instead.

Flesje thuis geprobeerd op 04-06-2016. Het is een roodbruin nier met een volle beige schuimkraag. Het heeft een fruitige en hoppige geur. de smaak is hoppig en bitter.

Fles geprobeerd op 06-05-2016, met LiekevdV. Het is een troebel oranjeachtig bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het aroma is citrus achtig met hints van sinaasappel en kruiden. De smaak is citrusachtig, kruidig en pittig.

Fles gedeeld met Roelzie. Het is een diep donkerbruin bier met een beige schuim. Het heeft een rokerige geur. De smaak is gebrande mout, drop en rook.