Clausthaler Classic (Premium)

Brewed by Binding-Brauerei (Oetker Group)
Style: Low Alcohol
Frankfurt, Germany

Sometimes I get caught up in the moment, having too much fun with my beer-drinking friends and I have one or two beers too many. This is my NA of choice, but it isn’t widely available.

From a Bottle.Pale yellow in colour,no head,light hoppy aroma,fizzy malt taste.It’s ok for what it is.

Tasted 18/01/2005. 330ml bottle from New World. Pours a very bright light gold. Nice pillowy white head releases a strong aroma of honey and slightly toasted grainy brown bread. Flavour is at first strongly honey, without being cloying, and then becomes quite bitter. Main weakness in this beer is the residual bitterness left on the palate. I would think that this beer would have double the marks it has on this site if all tastings were blind. Get over yourselves macho men and rate beers on everything but it’s alcohol content. The best low alcohol beer that I know is available in Wellington, NZ.

Extremely bitter among NA beers, very hoppy, a bit skunky. Tastes like a good pilsener with the body and malt flavour mostly taken away. Has some body. While it is seriously deficient in certain areas, it is still my non-alcoholic brew of choice when I want something very bitter. I don’t understand why this brewer doesn’t go for more body--compare this low-calorie beer with Penn’s best, which has lower quality hops, but has the body of a real beer. I gave the high rating because I am impressed with the quality, given that it is an NA, and I need to compensate for the other raters irrationally low ratings. The bottom line--I drink this more than any other beer and it would be outright wrong for me to not give it a top rating.

This is good. For a fake beer. Real good for a fake beer, in fact. There’s not that many fake beers, and most of them stink (see Genny NA). This could reasonably be passed off as beer, and actually has a bit of taste to it. My first choice for pretending to drink beer.

Hadn’t had one of these in years. Medium gold, decent head that lasted. Slight bread aroma, very faint. Sort of a weird malty flavor, but not a bad one, faint hop bitterness. Decent alternative.

bottle. not bad for an na. honey and chamomile tea aroma. mild bitterness but adequate. ta to roles

Goldish color. Wow... I didn’t know the Germans could stoop this low... It tastes like an infected band-aid. True, I’ve had worse, but not many.