Recently, the Gizmodo web site posted an article reviewing many of the available non-alcoholic beers, such as Sharp’s, O’Doul’s Premium, Beck’s Non-Alcoholic, Bitburger Deluxe, and others.
Their “testing methodology” was to buy every non-alcoholic beer they could find at local stores. Then, the article’s author and two beer fanatic friends picked bottles out at random and sampled them. Each beer was given a number so that no one knew which one they were drinking. They drink 6-8 ounces of each beer and cleansed their palates between each sample. As they sampled, they recorded their notes and assembled a ranking.
The final ranking of the non-alcoholic beers they tested was:
- Clausthaler Golden Amber
- Erdinger Non-Alcoholic
- Kaliber (from Guinness)
- Clausthaler Premium
- Buckler
- Gerstel Non-Alcoholic
- Paulaner Thomas Brau
- Coors Non-Alcoholic
- St. Pauli N.A.
- Bitburger Drive
- O’Doul’s Amber
- Beck’s Non-Alcoholic
- O’Doul’s Premium
- Miller Sharp’s
There’s a lot of humor in the article and I recommend checking it out if you have time. Whether it’s Miller Sharp’s being described as smelling “like a dirty fish tank” or O’Doul’s Premium being likened to “dirty pasta water”, you’re sure to find a chuckle in there somewhere.
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