Clausthaler Golden Amber

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

Slightly feety, cedar, and lemon nose. Dingy amber, thin to medium vanishing head. Pine needle and grain flavor. Body less, but flavorful, and balanced. Clover finish. It’s a bit more expensive, but this is way better than other near beers.

Pours light golden amber with a 1/4 inch head. Aroma of straw, hay, sugar, and corn. Tastes like a whole mess of corn sugar. Damn I think they put so much sugar in there to try to make up for the lack of alcohol. Overall pissed in cornflakes is the dominant flavor. A little fizzy mouthfeel. Nasty finish.

Bottle. Small fizzy white head that mostly diminished, very little lacing, transparent, carbonation observed, and a gold hue.The nose was lightly malty, lightly hoppy and hint of herbal, floral.Ditto for the flavor with a hint of corn. Slightly tingly mouthfeel and medium in body.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of foamy fine to medium sized white colored bubbles that were and left behind a transparent typically carbonated golden brown colored body and a poor lacing. The aroma was straw like grassy and slightly skunky. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor was soda water like and very poor. A horrible one that I would not buy again.

(I see a lot of low ratings numbers for near-beer. I know its not a good as a beer. I don’t rate wine to beer or tea to coffee either. This is its own entity so these numbers will not reflect my pattern of taste in alcohol beer.)

Crystal clear amber pour with a delicate small foamy head. Light hop aroma. Nice malt flavor comes across with the carbonation. Medium body that finishes with the slightest hop bitterness.

bottle - Pours clear light amber with a thin white head. It has a rather odd aroma of toasted malt and... licorice? Not sure. Whatever it is, it smells kind of off. The flavor is light and malty and this thin bodied beer is bubbly on the palate. There’s a little hops in there. Overall, it’s just not good. Maybe some day someone will make a decent low alcohol beer, but I haven’t had it yet.

Date: 10/21/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Harry’s

clear amber, thin off white head, light sweet malt aroma with a touch of floral hops, light dry malt flavor with a nice long bitter finish, touch of carmel character

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Score: *4
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Pours with a rather big head, dies down at a reasonable rate.. Leaves alot of lacing.. Smells the part, smells similar to shiner bock but fuller and maybe abit more copperlike... Nice biting crispness, very tasty beverage, and not just because its a N/A ... I fooled a couple of people with this, but it sucks once it warms up..