Holsten Non-Alcoholic

Brewed by Holsten-Brauerei (Carlsberg)
Style: Low Alcohol
Hamburg, Germany

Can 0,33l. Pale golden colored. An OK fluffy head. Hardly any aroma. Some sweet malty hints in the flavor. No bitterness.

can 330ml 1€ from S-market color:pale yellow Scent: pee Taste:sweet corn flavor,bit acid and metallic. Not easily drinkable: It is not my alternative to drink proper beer.

50 cL bottle, as Holsten Alkoholfrei Premium. Pours clear and golden yellow with a creamy white head. Aroma is mild malty and slight cardboardish. Dry malty and slight sweet cornish flavour. Mild bitterness coming through. Light acidic touch. Quite well made NA.

Yellow and clear. Has a white head, mostly lasting. Real odd aroma, can’t find any beer-like notes. Flavor is artificial sweet. Thin, watery texture.

Clear golden with white head. Sweet malty with unfermented grain,fresh wort and mild caramel notes. Flavor likewise with cardboard notes. Cardboardish finish.

Light golden with white head, notes of unfermented grains, fresh wort and cardboard, sweet in taste. Reckon the only thing reminding me of a lager is the cardboard.....

I’ll start off by stating that i think there is a time and place for alcohol free beer. There is certainly a market. I long for the day I can drink great low alcohol (or alcohol free) examples of my favourite beers. The only issue to date has been whether the end product actually meets the marketing hype. This beer has done well in the IBC (frankly a competition I don’t have much time for - packaging for pity sakes!) but could it deliver on taste... Aroma: A heavy graininess with touches of wort and light hay hop aroma. Overall it doesn’t turn me off. It has the metal note of some non-alco beers but (thankfully) restrained. Appearance: brilliantly clear golden with nice head retention and beading. Presents well. Flavour: It tastes rather absent at the start of the palate, going malty through the middle and finishing with a nice hop punch at the end (grassy, sandal wood, hay). There is a real metallic twang at the end which is quite nasty. Unfortunately the twang doesn’t really go away after a few sips. Palate: Full bodied, nice prickly mouthfeel with carbonation. Balanced bitterness - if not a little restrained overall. Overall: The search for non-alcoholic Nirvana continues but at least this beer is better than most. I would seek this out if I had to drink no-alco beer.

awful can of light piss. like you had drunk lots and lots of water and you just keep on pissing odorless and colourless. How the hell has this one won something in a beer competition?