DAB Low Carb

Brewed by Dortmunder Actien Brauerei (Oetker Group)
Style: Pale Lager
Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

This is a "NO." DAB makes good brews. Why get into this low-carb BS? It’s actually better than most of these current, non-sensical lagers... but who wants to be the best of the worst? Drink real beer, instead.

Very pale straw color with a white wispy big bubbled head. Light grass and malt aromas. Some lace. Initial dry malt flavors, followed by a Light bitterness and touch of kraft paper. I've had one other low carb brew and this one blows that "Green 33" out of the water or lauter tun. This would be a very good hot day quencher. At least as far a low cal., low carbs go. A touch fizzy and seems to loss flavor as it goes.

Bottle from Party Source. Poured pale color with an average frothy white head that diminished quickly with fair lacing. Moderate grassy aroma. Light to medium body with a thin texture and soft carbonation. Light sweet flavor with soft bitter short finish. Worth trying once.

Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, fully diminishing. Body is clear medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (grain), lightly hoppy (herbs, flowers), hints of metal and DMS. Flavor is lightly sweet, lightly bitter. Finish is moderately bitter. Light body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation, slightly metallic.

Medium white head on top of a pale yellow hued body. You get a slightly sopay aroma and some dirt. The taste is mild and inoffensive. About what you woudl expect.

This bottled brew poured a medium sized head of foamy finely sized mostly diminishing white colored bubbles that left behind an unnoted lacing. The body contained average carbonation, was transparent and light orange in color. Its aroma contained notes of mild malty hoppy astringent . Its mouth feel is initially tingly bubbly with a lingering tingly palate. Its flavor contained mild malty hoppy notes and was good but too bubbly.

This is crystal clear and pale yellow with a thin foamy white head. Sweet malty aroma. The flavor is musty, sweet and grainy. For the weak look, this actually surprises with almost some flavor. Hate this new "low carb" kick, though.

2004 bottle. Well if you want to rate this relative to the other low carb beers on the market, this one would be in the high 4’s. However, on the whole scale of pale lagers, it’s not nearly that special. Still, the flavor is not offensive, just pretty neutral, watery and weak. There was some attempt at hops flavoring, dry and minimal with a seltzer-like body. No sweetness whatsoever, very peppery carbonation, with almost no aroma. Clear, straw color, white head. Very similar to sparkling mineral water (San Pelegrino anyone?). Whatever, it’s better than bud light.