Clausthaler Golden Amber

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

bottle. Pours a clear amber with a white head. Nose is almost nonexistent. taste is of malt and grain. Mouthfeel is thin and watery.

Tried a sample at Brewfest Tallahassee. Slightly more flavor than the classic, and luckily not as skunky.

This is probably the 2nd best non-alcoholic beer I’ve had thus far. The best would be Clausthaler Premium. You can actually taste a little bit of hops and malt here. The only thing missing is the booze part. Overall, fair.

Huh, if I couldn’t drink alcoholic beer, I’d probably drink this. Pours a nice clear amber color with a fluffy but loose white head that goes away fairly quickly leaving a little lace. This is a stinky beer, smells a little like BO, also some skunkiness behind all that is some sweet maltiness and some hops but those are really not the dominant aromas. Flavor has lots of caramel notes and some good noble hops; this could honestly fool me for a real Vienna, with some good pilsner hop qualities going on. Of course not all is well in the flavor; there is some odd tomato like vegetable notes that are very odd, which seem to be fighting against some apple juice flavors. There is also some odd cereal type graininess. For what it is worth this is ok by me, but of course nothing to take seriously.

Third NA of the night, and halfway through I actually feel something like the effects of a small amount of alcohol. Who knows if it’s real. Color is clear medium amber orange. Nose has the typical nutrisweet but also contains a little sweet caramel malt note. Body is light but not as light as other NAs, some fullness across the middle. Flavor is bran and wheat crackers with some sweetened corn syrup. Definitely the winner of the night, whatever that means.

Bottle. Pours clear amber with a fizzy white head. Aroma is sweet, with caramel, grain and hay. Light body. Flavor is again sweet, with caramel, grain, bread, and corn. Not awful, but a bit too sweet.

12oz bottle. Brown color with a small head. Light malt aroma. Kida tastes like pre-hopped amber wort concentrate, but with less bitterness. A weird combo of unfermented malt flavors, tea and soda, with a light bitterness. Weird call to make on this one. It certainly doesn’t have any offensive flavors, but no one is going to mistake this for a real beer. I would never buy it as i really don’t see the point, but it was in the cooler at a friend’s party and i just couldn’t resist the temptation to see if it could hold its own. Better flavor than most macro pales at least.

Amber pour (surprise!) with a medium sized dirty white head. Grainy aroma. Flavor is cheerio style grain, a bit of floral something, cant quite pin that down or wrap my head around exactly what I am tasting. Some grass and water rounds it out. Finishes very watery. I can actually see why people would drink this as a decent alternative.