Clausthaler Golden Amber

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

Clear light amber body topped by small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, corn, grassy, caramel -- really a strange mix of smells. Taste is sweet, caramel and corn, light grassy. Light body with a bit of caramel stickiness. I've had many worse beers, and they don't have the excuse that they're low alcohol.

Bottled Starts out kinda tasty as fizzy malt teas go. Pours amber under a thick head that looks slightly processed. A nice malty taste and, for once, a pleasing snootful of German hops. Then a strange barrage of off flavors and sugars sets in. It's nice that there's an NA beer that tries to make up for itself by adding some hops, but this still needs some work.

Golden/bronze hue. Foamy beige head. Grainy nose. Soft, sour, veggie palate, grainy and lacking in depth and flavor. I wasnt expecting much, this really isnt half bad. Faint bitteness in the finish.

Dull golden amber color with a hugh fluffy off white head. Sweet malt and citric orange aroma. Sweet malt and floral hops aromas. Much akin to a heavy dark hop tea.

Chalk it up to curiousity, or maybe an unreasonable desire to try a new style, but I saw this at my favorite beer store and thought "why not?". Here we are, the first NA beer I've ever drank. Looks nice in the glass, copper/brown, clear, and an OK head. Has a Veggie smell, maybe a touch grainy, as well. Flavor is both sour and stale, a big disappointment. There is some real beer flavor, as well as some bitterness, but overall pretty bad. This could be a spoiled bottle, but I don't see it being worth the effort to find out.

This is an excellent N/A beer.
Pours out to a light, amber in the glass with a fairly, large head. There is alot of carboination present. Many bubbles in this one. The taste is a very, pleasant surprise. The caramel malt taste with a slight sweetness, really adds to the drinkability factory and it doesn't leave a dry mouth like most N/A's. If you've had an O'Doul's Amber, this is similar, but with profoundly more taste. This actually tastes like beer.

Huge grassy sweet wort aroma, golden color with a small white head. Grainy taste that ends slightly sweet. The best NA beer ever!

Bottle. WTF?? That'll teach me to be more careful when I go to Central Market and see "something new"...I didn't read the "Non-alcoholic" letters below the name of the beer. Damn it! This stuff reeks to high heaven of skunk and doesn't taste much better. Amber appearance with surprisingly respectable head. Blaugh.