Beer Blog & Beer Reviews

I was on a girly alcohol detox and was hankering after some of the good stuff, so done what any good man would do… and cheated.

Erdinger Alcohol Free to the rescue?

Could my salvation lie in an experemental bottle of alcohol free beer? Erdinger Alkoholfrei was my first choice.

With low hopes and a heavy heart I open the bottle to a fizzy chorus heralding my surely impending doom.

I’ve never had alcohol free beer before so this Erdinger Alkoholfrei is all new to me, but smells nice and malty like Horlicks, a hell of a lot like Horlicks! but not like beer :s

It tastes like fizzy cold Horlicks… though oddly it’s not a horrible taste!

The first thing is the fizz on your tongue witch i think is a bit strong and maybe an attempt to fool you into thinking this is real beer.

When the soft malt taste rolls over your mouth soothing your pallet after the fizz attack the “beer” comes together into a cup of cold mostly Horlicks. There is a very small amount of bitter just before the end to remind you it’s meant to be beer.

I’m not going to say it’s bad, because it isn’t, nor am i going to say its beer, because it just doesn’t taste like any beer I’ve had before. If it was going to taste like anything it would be the Sainsbury’s Abbaye biere de belgique I reviewed a long time ago.

A couple of things to consider:

Alcohol free beer is actually only <0.5% but with new lower drink dirving laws can you even drink many of these?

Is it any less likely to give you a beer belly?