- Hi, it's Matt and this is part two of my alcohol-free
beer taste test.
Last time, I found about 15 beers in my local supermarket
and since I filmed that one, I found another 7.
So, let's give them a try.
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I don't have a specific order to try these in,
so I'm gonna pick that one.
A Ship Full of IPA by Brutal Brewing.
Wow, that's really golden, that.
That's very bitter,
okay, there's some stuff going on here, let me have a,
this is incredibly hoppy, it's a bit caramely,
there's some sweetness to it.
It's in a similar vain to the,
oh what's it called?
Nanny State by Brewdog in its like pure hoppiness
and slightly soapiness.
It does have a slight bit of Weetabixy-ness to it though.
Nowhere near the top of my list but it's still on
the good side, so I'll leave that over here.
Next, let's go for a full commercial one, shall we?
Carlsberg's Nordic Pilsner, alcohol free.
I think I might have drunk this before
when I was in Denmark.
Looks like lager.
Tastes very wet.
What do I mean by that?
It's not overpowering, it is,
I could happily drink that.
It's a thirst quenching summer beer, that.
I'm going for some more.
I think this is everything I would want from
an alcohol free lager actually.
It's kind of like beer flavored fizzy water,
which is I suppose what all of these are but,
there's barely anything to this so there's nothing
wrong with this but I mean that as a compliment.
I don't know the right words for this but I like it.
That's gonna go in the yes pile.
Becks Blue, this is the one that I see the most
in supermarkets and it seems to come in 12 packs
or many, many, many packs.
So I didn't buy it for the previous test
because I didn't wanna buy loads of it in case
I didn't like it, so I was waiting to see
if I could find it for just one can.
So I found just one can, let's try it.
This definitely is the most prolific in supermarkets.
Wow, is this one even lighter than the Carlsberg?
That is sweet.
No, this is very sweet.
It's not like fully soft drink sweet
but if you get one of those posh fizzy elderflower drinks
or whatever, it's that kind of sweet.
I suppose 'cause I'm thinking of that,
it must taste very floral.
If I was going between this and the Carlsberg,
I'd definitely choose the Carlsberg
but this is fine if I really fancied a beer
I would probably have it.
I'm not gonna buy to have it at home because it's,
same with the Carlsberg, I'm not gonna buy that,
they're both on the beer flavored fizzy water kind of arena.
It's not horrible, it's fine I just,
you can drink it if you want.
But I'd probably choose a soft drink over it,
but it's all right.
Right, let's go for Moretti Zero.
Now I'm hoping this will be a bit nicer than the other two.
Because I would normally prefer Moretti to the average lager
just cause it's a bit, I don't know, maltier.
That's very light, I was expecting it to be darker.
This tastes flavored.
This is in the similar vain to the Peroni.
If you haven't watched my previous video,
there'll be a link in the top and in the description below.
The Peroni tasted like lime and soda,
this also tastes like cordial and soda.
I don't think it tastes anything like Moretti.
It's very fruity.
It just tastes like a soft drink,
it's not beer.
If someone gave me one I'd probably drink it,
but I'd rather have a Coke or something.
Yeah, it's gonna go down there,
it's not really beer.
The other two, while they still taste like flavored
fizzy water, they're still beer.
They still taste like beer,
whereas that does not taste like beer.
Next up is the Coast Hazy IPA.
Just seeing this even lists the variety of hops
it's got in it.
Simcoe, Citra and Mosaic.
They're all very light.
Wow.
Yeah, that's a kick in the face in the flavor that, that is.
Right, that's a punch to the face with citrus
straight away.
Like, the first taste you get of that is nothing but citrus,
then the fizz comes through and,
then once that's settled in you start to get the more
hoppy IPA kind of flavors on top of it.
It's sweet.
Having tasted this, I can maybe see where the Peroni
and Moretti's cordial flavors come from because
it's in this but then there are undertones of beer after it.
If you like a fruity beer,
one of those really light, golden, fruity beers
then you'd probably like this.
Yeah.
Just got a load on maltiness in the aftertaste now as well.
That is a complex beer.
It's going on the yes.
Next we got the Shipyard's Low Tide Pale Ale.
What have we got here?
A stark contrast to the previous one.
This is more like a traditional IPA,
I'm getting a lot of bitterness.
That tastes like an IPA, that's good.
You can taste the hops coming through.
I actually wanna compare it to this one,
seeing as I've had a couple of different ones in between.
Oh wait, you can see the color difference.
Look how much darker this one is.
Okay, the Ship Full of IPA
is a maltier, muddier.
As you can probably see from the color,
in the Shipyard,
it's more of a crisper, cleaner bitterness.
So if you like a crisp, clean, hoppy IPA then
go for the Shipyard over this if you've got the choice.
Considering I've only ever seen most of these once,
you probably won't have the choice.
(laughs)
I'm gonna keep that on the left
'cause on second thought, I might not finish
the bottle of that if I was given one.
This is a yes, that's a beer.
And now the seventh and final beer is Brewdog's Hazy AF.
I've also brought along the Punk AF just as a comparison.
So let's try the Hazy.
I think I tried the Punk AF on the last video.
I must have done.
Oh, wow look how light that is.
Oh and it's hazy.
Okay.
Here we go.
I'm tasting something like burnt toast in it.
It's nice I could drink that.
It says "tropical fruits and grassy notes mix it up,
oats and wheat unite for a smoother ride."
I don't get so much of the tropical,
it's there a bit.
It's nowhere near as hoppy as some of their other beers
but then again, I've been drinking a lot of hoppy beers
for someone who doesn't drink them so hoppy,
then yeah, this might taste quite hoppy.
I could drink a can of that.
It's not going in my favorites but it's nice.
I just wanna compare it now to the Punk AF because.
I've talked about the Punk before on my previous video
so I'm not gonna talk about it now,
I'm just gonna compare it to the Hazy,
now I've had a taste of the Punk.
Okay, having tried it after that one I can absolutely tell
the fruitier more tropical flavors to it,
I can see where they're getting that from.
I think it has got some similarities to the previous beers
I've tasted which means I couldn't tell so many
of the differences but now I've had a swig of the Punk.
Yeah, I can really see that, that's a much lighter one.
Seems like everything I've found this time
are the more summery beers.
Okay, so here's our final lineup
starting at the bottom in the no pile,
it's the Ship Full of IPA,
it's really bitter, it tastes Weetabixy.
It started at the top and now I've changed my mind,
I moved it down a bit and now it's right at the bottom,
I'm not gonna have that again.
The Moretti tastes like cordial in fizzy water.
It doesn't taste like beer, it's not horrible
but why bother when you could have some
normal cordial in water.
In the middle, we've got the lagers.
Becks, eh, I wouldn't choose to drink it.
Carlsberg, quite nice if I really wanted
a beer over anything else and they had one of these.
I would go yes with the Carlsberg,
with the Becks I probably wouldn't,
but I'm not normally a lager drinker.
If you're a lager drinker then yeah,
this might do it for you.
Then in the good pile, in no specific order
we've got the Brewdog beers Punk AF I showed you last time.
The Hazy AF is a nice alternative, it's something different.
What they're doing here is they're giving us
a range of flavors.
They've got 3 non-alcoholic beers that I've tried now
including the Nanny State, Punk AF and the Hazy AF.
If you want a lighter, fruitier, brassier,
hazy IPA then yeah, try that.
Definitely different to most of the other things I've tried.
Shipyard seems like a pretty good American style IPA.
And then this Coast is a onslaught of citrus flavor.
If you like
to have to think about what you're drinking
from a flavor standpoint
then this is an absolute experience.
I think it has got some Weetabixy-ness in there.
And it's being covered by the punch
in the face of the citrus.
I don't think I'm gonna buy it again.
But I think you should try it just 'cause it's so different.
None of these beers go above anything from my list
on the previous video.
Big Drop Stout is still my favorite beer
that I've had that's alcohol free.
I did go to Brewdog's alcohol free beer festival
a few weeks ago
and got to try a few more that I haven't been able
to find since
and I just thought I'd mention a couple of them
that were really nice.
Just finding the pictures on my phone.
Lowlander's 0.0% Wit.
That as a very nice orangy beer,
it kind of tasted like Blue Moon if you've had that before.
But alcohol free, that was really good
I could drink a lot of that.
Big droperoo there, I've mentioned them lots of times,
I'm not sponsored by them, they've never given me anything.
Oh no wait, they have me this coaster.
I just really like their beers.
I tried the Hazelnut Porter which was excellent
and I had a little taste of some of the special beers
which like, I haven't disliked anything of theirs.
They're really good at this.
Also, Nirvana Brewery's Hoppy Pale Ale,
I tried that as well if I remember rightly
I think that was a really grassy tasting one,
a really fresh one that was really nice.
And possibly the most surprising
beer I tried was Mikkeller's Yuzu Sour
and if you haven't had it before
Yuzu is, I think Japanese citrus fruit.
It tastes kind of lemony, kind of orangy, kind of limey,
it's just another citrus fruit but in my opinion
better than all the others
and to have that in a beer was wow,
it was something else, so try it if you find it.
Those were all my recommendations from the beer festival,
they might be a litter harder to find than all of these,
I got all of these in the supermarkets
and all the beers from my previous video are also
from UK supermarkets.
If you event seen that video,
then it's linked below in the description
so give it a watch.
And if you've tried some non-alcoholic beers
let me know what you've thought of them
and if you've found any that are better than any of the ones
I've tried then please let me know I'd love to try them.
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and wow this outro was about 15 attempts,
it may have even taken longer than the rest of the video.
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