Flaske fra iransk supermarked i North Finchley, delt med Steven: gylden, nesten uten skum. Lukter og smaker maltekstrakt og mais. Iflg etiketten har de brukt humle, men uten at jeg kjenner det. Heldigvis ikke den metalliske ettersmaken som alkoholfrie øl ofte har.

Bottle share thanks to Ollie. Pours a pale yellow, thin head, bit of malt on the nose, thin and water malt with a little roast on the taste. It’s a new country tick.

Well. Corny malt juice with some hints of tomato. Sparkling water with a bit of malt taste. Meh. Crossed that off. Drinkable though.

Pours a clear dark golden color, topped with just a hint of white head that imemdiately disappears completely. Sweet malty aroma, slighty stinky grainy notes. Taste is sweet and malty. A fruity and grainy feel to it. Luckily it’s not too sweet. Watery and not that nice, but not completely unpleasant. Well, at least a new country.

330ml bottle from Ozmen’s International Shop, Sheffield - Red to amber with a thin white collar. Aroma of wholemeal, baskets and feint malt. Taste is watery, a bit of electrolyte soda drink thing going on. Purely a country tick, made me think what it would be like Bourbon Barrel Aged. Couldn’t find a bourbon barrel, so I chucked some Jim Beam in it. Still not very drinkable. UAE = ticked.

330ml bottle. Pours clear light orange with almost no head. Smells like... wet cat food. No kidding! Bubbly mouthfeel, very low taste, not far away from sparkling water. Comparable to one of these sparkling waters with a hint of some fruit, expect that this beer doesn’t do it in a tasty way.

Tasted as Barbican Malt Beverage with the "Premium" embossed on the shoulder of the bottle, and twist cap; from what I can retrieve from the Internet, it is the same product. Nearly the only ’beer’ produced in the United Arab Emirates and since this is an islamic country, I have high doubts about it even having been fermented at any point - theoretically speaking, muslims are not allowed to take in even the slightest trace of alcohol, even if it were only 0,001% ABV or so. If it is effectively unfermented, it would be ’unrateable’ on this site, but of course I wouldn’t want to begrudge anyone of their ’ticks’ for this country - including myself. Pours a clear, deep ’old gold’ colour with slow fizz, under a loose, coarse, crackling but quickly diminishing, off-white head, retaining well only around the edges of the glass. Grainy aroma with clear dominance of sweet maltose, hints of roasted pinenuts, lots of biscuit, toasted bread, ’stale sweat’ sourishness, cake coming straight from the oven, powder sugar, industrially produced and sweetened cider, cooked Brussels sprouts, old dry cookies and something sulphuric (burnt rubber). Sweetish taste, lager-like onset, grainy and toasted with strong, spritzy carbo, a tad sugary and cookie-like, toasted accent in the middle, thinnish as usual for a non-alcoholic beer, lightly metallic but less so than I have experienced in many similar products; maltose is emphatically there and creates a dull, simple sugary sweetness which lingers far into the finish, which is otherwise thin and watery, with not a trace of the hops mentioned on the back label; retronasally, a kind of cooked vegetable soup impression comes along... The final taste which remains, therefore reminds me of sugared vegetables, as in: caramelized Brussels sprouts... A sweet malt beverage indeed, almost the beer equivalent of a soda pop, but it still has a vague ’beery’ quality to it, in terms of looks and aroma. Not even the worst non- or low-alcoholic beer I had (though not far from it), but as said, I don’t think this has ever been fermented so I’d regard this as a beer lookalike rather than as a true beer. Big thanks to my boss for bringing me this bottle from Dubai.

Clear golden colour, white head. Malty aroma, light hops, construction wood. Sweet malty flavour, light caramel, some banana. Quite fizzy. Finish malts, caramel, some sugar notes. Not a great beer, but quite drinkable, not the worst of N/A beers. And a country tick is a country tick.
(from 33cL bottle @ home. Thanks for bringing the bottle for me, Erik!)

Bottle, thanks to friend :) Aroma: malt, soda and corn. Taste like a mild sweet wort with acidity of ascorbic acid. Refreshment.