Below Brew Co. (prev. Lowtide Brewing)

Client Brewer in Bath, Somerset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2021

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Avondale Road, Bath, BA1 3EG, England
Description
While running our website Crafty AF - our quest to find the perfect AF brew often left us wanting more. We felt the world was being shortchanged; there wasn’t a brewery that emanated truly craft alcohol free beer, and there were so many beer types left unexplored. It was from this realisation that Lowtide Brewing Co was born.

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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5.5

14/10/2021. Can from 10 Beer Bottles, Wivenhoe. Pours clear bright gold with a short lasting white head. Aroma of light tropical fruit, citrus, malt, grass. Moderate sweetness and bitterness. Very light and watery, with average carbonation. Pretty decent as no alcohol beers go, but very thin.

Tried from Can on 14 Oct 2021 at 21:30


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

6/10/2021. Can from 10 Beer Bottles, Wivenhoe. First of the Lowtides that I didn't particularly like. Pours clear pale golden with a frothy white head. Aroma is sweet apricot, vaguely hoppy, malty, husky, straw, touch of card. Medium plus sweetness, light bitterness. Light body, watery texture, average carbonation.

Tried from Can on 06 Oct 2021 at 17:28


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

440ml can. Pours clear gold, thin white head. Doesn't taste remotely like a DIPA, quite bitter, some West Coast suggestions. Decent tho.

Tried from Can on 03 Oct 2021 at 19:48


4.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

440ml can. Pours gold with a faint mist, thin white bubbles atop. Distant, gentle apricot shades.. but mostly malt. Ok

Tried from Can on 03 Oct 2021 at 19:47


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

440ml can, online from LightDrinks. Pours hazed dark brown with a foamy beige head. Aroma: sweet-ish, caramel, light coffee, nuts. Taste: Light sweet & light to moderate bitter, light roast, caramel. Thin to medium body with foamy carbonation. Solid for an AF beer.

Tried from Can on 20 Jul 2021 at 22:31


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

440ml can on a super hot Summer's Sunday evening with Soph and Elliot, relaxing in Fly's field. Pours unclear dark brown, foamy beige head. Aroma presents nutty ryebread, roasted malt, continuing to taste. Fine malty bitter brown ale, no AF off-flavours, presented well with a light malt sweetness coming into view.

Tried from Can on 19 Jul 2021 at 14:30


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

16/6/2021. Can at the Duke of York, Ipswich. Pours black with a small creamy off-white head. Aroma of chocolate, honeycomb, vanilla, blackberry, orange, crunchie bar. Medium sweetness and light bitterness. Thin and watery, but otherwise a very drinkable beer.

Tried from Can on 16 Jun 2021 at 20:01


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pours clear, dark caramelly brown. Big white head collapses relatively fast. Fine soapy structure. Scent is slightly roasted, coffee, toffee, caramel notes. Faded chocolate, even. Taste is medium intense to intense ( which is a lot for a NA) . Roasty, almost a tad ashy trough it's dryness. Mild sweetness. Very nice to have a dark NA thats actually good !

Tried on 24 May 2021 at 10:04


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7

Pours clear blonde, with a huge white head. Scent is fairly mild. Some malts (bread) . Mild hops (green matter, mostly) slight fruity note ( tropical /citrus ) but thats very mild. Taste is surprisingly bitter ( these days bitterness always seems to go quite low) . Fullbodied, especially for the style. Very maltforward (bread) . Hoparoma is still quite mild, doesn't go beyond 'notes of'. Nice beer for it's bitterness and body in a NA, but I had hoped for more (way more) hoparoma to realy seal the deal.

Tried on 21 May 2021 at 09:03


6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Pours clear blonde, medium sized white head. Scent is malty, tad DMS, tad corn like-sweetness. Not the best, but not awefull. Taste is dusty maltyness, mild DMS, veyr mild bitterness. Not great again. Feels a bit aged , though the BBD is one year from now. Very forgeteable, and below average NA.

Tried on 19 May 2021 at 11:44