Budejovický Budvar Nealkoholicke Pivo

Brewed by Budweiser Budvar Ceske Budejovice
Style: Low Alcohol
České Budějovice, Czech Republic

No 293
Rated: 02.01.2008
Bottle green, 500 ml
Appearance: Pours bright golden, lemony colour, with quite huge head being white, frothy, a bit rocky in texture, irregular and slowly decreasing but not completely diminishing. Body is not clear and the most probably reason for floating dusty - chalky dediments is drinking 6.5 months after sell by date. Carbonation is medium and gently after some time, there are some traces of lacing.
Aroma: Very chalky, dust, bittery - hoppy aroma, some carboantion in nose, hints of tomato, generally aroma is quite strong still hiding under the pillowy head and rather simple, not complex, soily, a hint of tomato soup with rice, a bit soapy. No skunkyness despite the green bottle.
Flavour: Front is softly carbonated minerla water, fresh spring water, than some metallic hints and some hoppy bitterness on palate, but very weak, crystalized honey, all in all very wattery but there is this characteristic for Pilsener style lack of sugar or syrupy impression. Finish feel is very flat, simple, refreshing drink, with some hints of alcohol practically not recgnizable in the taste, dominated by water, but positive, without skunkyness. Notes of taste less bubble gum. The interesting thing is tha all Bohemian Pilsener’s Low Alcohol counterparts have no sugar at all and when it comes to Premiun Lager’s Low Alcohol counterparts their taste is more sweet and crystalized honey like. A bit crispy. Not that bad as compared with many non - slvonic low alcohols.
Palate: Body is light, texture is very wattery, carbonation is soft on palate, finish feel is flat, wattery with some hints of carbonation and poor crispyness or dust.

Bottle, bought @ a Billa in Prague.
Pours clear golden with a fine, big, bubbly, white head. Okay duration. Big bubbles in the liquid. Aroma has a bit of sour socks, some maltiness and light grass. High carbonation, a bit thin. Flavour is soft, slightly metallic, a bit of maltiness. Finishes off with quite a nice dose of hoppiness, perhaps a bit too citric. Otherwise a fine non-alcoholic beverage.

Bottled. Clear golden colour with mediumsized white creamy head and leaving some lace. Aroma is mild sweet fruits along with malts and paper, but also some hayishness. Flavour is malts and even some hoppy bitterness. Only slight paperyness. Surprisingly good non-alco.

Green Bottle 500 ml
Appearance: mid gold with bright white head.Average lacing.
Nose: Grassy , citric aroma hint of black tea.
Flavor/Palate : Flavour followed aroma. Citric , grassy hops with mid light malt base. Refreshing strong herbal character. Unexpected set up for any beer even more so with non alco. Good replacement if you cant drink alcohol.

bottled. thanks to honza for giving me a taste. quite pale golden, wet hay aroma, no bitterness, light texture, not awful

Accidentally bought this at a Tesco in Prague thinking I was getting a hell of a deal. Drank some anyway and found it was pretty tasty: very leafy hop nose, a little thin on the palate with the taste of bread and hopped wort, very clean finish. Quite refreshing alternative to soda, I suppose.

Bottle. Pale golden colour. Frothy head. Fruity, bit dusty aroma. Hops are surprisingly enough very evident in flavour. Fruity and somewhat like hopped wort. Light bodied and seemingly oily. Surprisingly good.

Bottle: Clear, greenish golden coloured, slowly collapsing fluffy white head; fresh worty and astonishingly aromatic hoppy nose; mild bitter-sweet flavour, malt well detectable, light bodied; mild bitter-grainy finish, almost a bit lingering hoppy aftertaste. Not really bad, a bit watery.........