12 oz single from Arbor Place Beverage, Douglasville, GA, USA.
Style 103/103 reviewed on BA.
Pour yields a highly carbonated body and some decent head. Unfortunately the head is gone within 90 seconds as the large bubbles disappear and there is virtually no lace. Carbonation seems very high. Body is a typical macro, yellow piss color, no better or worse than scores of other macro’s.
Nose is a little strong. VERY strong vegetal notes, smells like dirty water.
The taste is an artifically, plastic-like affair with a surprising lack of bitterness. Many non-alcoholic beers I have had in the past have had a strong bitterness – this doesn’t. If it were not for the smell that one gets when the glass goes up to the mouth, one would think that this were simply carbonated water. The mouthfeel is woefully thin and the taste is that of water that has been siting in a plastic bottle, in a warm car for a couple of days. Aftertaste is slightly malty.
Let’s face it, you can’t make worthy beer with little or zero alcohol.