Warsteiner Premium Fresh

Brewed by Warsteiner Brauerei
Style: Low Alcohol
Warstein, Germany

One of 19 non-alcoholic brews I tried during a 4-month deployment in Kuwait, because that’s all I could get. 11/4/05 (bottle): Normal yellow pils color with a white pillowy head that quickly died. Starchy aroma. Corn-like flavors with a mellow finish.

Bottle. Unpleasant aroma. Pale golden colour. Stable, big white head. Semi-sweet flavour, bready. Very watery, thin mouthfeel. Strange bitterness.

If the question was "How more bland could a bland beer be?" Then the answer must be "None, none more bland." Drainpour

Gold in colour with lots of carbonation. Smells kind of like regular Warsteiner, with some bread and mineral notes. Perhaps there’s a bit of a veggie hop element in there too. The palate is thin and slightly astringent. Not much beer flavor there... just kind of a watered down malt sweetness and a greater contribution of veggie tasting (and not in a good way) hops.

Decent low-alcohol beers are rare. This isn’t one of them. Poured a very pale gold with a quick-diminishing 0.5cm head. Genuinely beery aroma but poor quality: wort, wet cardboardy malt, boiled turnip and faint lemony hops. Over-carbonated soda water body - correction, this has little or no body at all. It makes water seem chewy. Tastes mainly of sweetened CO2 with a tart lemon bitterness in the swallow. Tolerable but why bother. (330ml bottle)

(Bottle 33 cl) Low alcohols sometimes surprise in a positive way, but most often they’re just plain awful. This one belongs in the latter category. Very pale golden with a white head. Flavours of sulphur and cardboard - not exactly what I like in beer. Things get a wee bit better as it warms, but not much. Always have another beer close by to cleanse your mouth, if you try the Warsteiner NA. 160800

NAsty, plus beng an alcoholfree beer it has that nasty flavor of the great breweries, like coors or miller.

Bottled. Yellowish golden colour with minor white head. Sweaty socks alongwith cooked vegetables in aroma. Extremely unpleasant artificial sweet flavour (sweaty socks?) with some grassy and dishwaterish hints. Unpleasant.