Warsteiner Premium Fresh

Brewed by Warsteiner Brauerei
Style: Low Alcohol
Warstein, Germany

It poured gold and flat and had an aroma that could be expressed as a generic sweet. Very faint sweet malt flavor. They could at least have added more hops. That wouldn’t have upped the alcohol.

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Typical alcoholfree beer. Thin and hardly any aroma nor flavor. Well perhaps a hint of something like corn-flakes.

Poured a very light gold with almost no carbonation. The aroma is sweat socks with some slight hay and grain. Low alcohol beers usually smell like unfermented wort, and this is no exception. The taste is dishsoap and some light grassy hops. The finish has some slight cardboard. Honestly, this isn’t a total waste.

Pours thin and dull, much like the flavor. As far as non-alcoholic beers go, this one is at least a little tolerable. Needs more malt for sure, but the hops do provide some sort of bite.

Straw colour with large bubbles and no head. Aroma is a mix of wort and grassy hops. Body is thin, with rather harsh carbonation. Flavour is husky, fairly bitter but without much hop finish. Malts seem to have been removed along with the alcohol.

Pale yellow color with a soft peak egg white head. Dry light toast aroma, with only a hint of herbal hops. Quite water in feel and the little extra spritz does not help the feel much as well. Actually the flavors or quite good for style. Not overly sweet or worty like many. Light pale malt sweetness with a bit of mineral chalkiness. Things fall apart toward the finish with floral bitterness and watery flavors. But overall a good quencher for style.

EXTREME metallic taste, offset by many good qualities: very smooth, complex texture. Very cool tasting--"fresh" is a great adjective. Lacks the harsh crispness that many German NA’s possess. I would like more hops, but there are quite a lot. Overall, this is among the best NA’s and is much unlike any other NA. I would drink this it more often, but I find it very difficult to obtain. The metallic taste can be minimized by drinking warm. Cold, this beer is poor. Warm, it is quite excellent.

I’m usually pretty generous with low-alcohols, especially the Euro versions, but this one is sub-par. Very light, plae golden appearance, deent whit ehead though. Aroma is somewhat wort-like - but when you really get down to it - it is not that different than cat urine. Very bland club soda-like flavor with a touch of corn. Thin mouthfeel. Pass on this one