A ml bottle? I am not sure anyone loves low-alcohol beer so much that they demand it in such volumes. Saint Omer is sweet, thin and watery, and what flavour there is beyond that sweetness — and, frankly, there is not a lot — is metallic, acrid, unpleasantly bitter hop oil compounds, clanging around in a highly unstructured way.

It is less challenging than the worst examples here although there is a weird, dank maltiness going on in the background , but still terrible.

This is veritable Um Bongo concoction, which mixes lemon, orange, lime and cherry-like acerola juice with alcohol-free beer and carbonated water.

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Tony Naylor. Ales are fermented at more ambient temperatures than lagers with yeast that floats at the top of the fermenter. It looks gorgeous once poured too.

It would be easy to mistake ü. NN for a full-ABV pale ale. The aroma manages to weave in fruit and spice with pine, grass, coriander seed and oregano backed by a hit of mango and lychee.

The body rivals many standard brews while the fruity flavours are followed by a balanced bitterness that leaves you wanting another sip and quick.

Originally a 1. This is a nicely balanced pale ale, which oozes citrus and mango aroma and flavours. It contains four types of hops, with a focus on the relatively new US hop, Citra.

The aroma features tropical fruits and lemon, with a touch of wheat beer aromas — bubblegum and banana. In the flavour, the tropical fruits are joined by pale and wheat malts with a decent hit of bitterness.

This beer is one of only a handful of tripel-style NA beers. But the highlight is its full body and soft mouthfeel, belying its status as an ultra-low-alcohol beer.

Many traditional breweries have tried — and failed — to produce a decent alcohol-free pale ale to go alongside their full-strength ranges.

It might it even be better than bottled version of the original. It features tropical fruits and caramel biscuit in the aroma with a viscous, sticky body and a good dose of bitterness.

This beer — Surfers Summer Ale — features a balanced variety of malt, yeast and hop flavours with pale malt, lemon, passionfruit and sage on the nose and danker, plummier flavours in the taste.

Danish gypsy brewer Mikkeller produces its non-alcoholic beers in Belgium, a country that has a long tradition of adding fruit to beer.

So this pale ale laced with raspberry juice feels like a natural fit. And, the mouthfeel is juicy and creamy, with smooth carbonation.

This pale ale from West Berkshire Brewery WBB features a decent hit of bitterness with lots of fruity esters and a good body. Becks Blue tastes fine to me.

Waits for delivery of free samples. Rowdy Posts: 6, Forum Member. Becks Blue must taste OK, at my 40th birthday party I noticed my uncle was on about his 5th bottle so I asked him why he'd got a taxi instead of driving if he was drinking that.

Hut27 Posts: 1, Forum Member. Staunchy Guest Posts: 10, Forum Member. Becks blue is a genuine alternative if you cannot drink driving etc.

I was expecting it to be awful but it was rather pleasant. I do prefer to drink nice week bitter normally though.

I wonder what percentage of the sale of these drinks is accidental? Centennial and Mosaic varieties of American hops give the brew a fresh floral aroma with hints of tropical fruit and citrus.

With an aroma of hop floral aroma with hints of tropical fruit and citrus combined with a full-bodied, malty flavor balanced by a pleasant bitterness.

The high bitterness might be an issue for some, but refreshing for others, with foam that leave a luxurious linger as it glides down.

That said, the high bitterness might be an issue for some. Brewed in Suffolk, using reverse osmosis the brewers at Adnams are able to create a low alcohol version of their extremely popular Ghost ship ale.

The result is a crispy, light and super tasty pale ale. It actually tastes like an Adnams pale ale. Schneider Weisse is another German brewery.

It has a thick body is a little darker than a typical weisse but just as refreshing making it ideal for the change in the seasons.

There's a little spice in the aroma and a sweet flavour with minimal bitterness, so it's an easy drinker. This light and fresh alcohol free beer can be shipped to you from the good people at Amazon.

This certainly paves the way for more low alcohol ale alternatives. Suffolk's Big Drop Brewing Co specialise in non-alcoholic beer, using innovative techniques to produce beers under 0.