Heineken Buckler

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

OK, couldn’t wait to try this after a few good beers! Pop the lid of this 12 oz bottle and it has the quality of many better beers that are slightly veggie skunky, you know, the green bottle ones? Has an interesting beer quality about the flavor. This has the color of any other ubiquitous pale yellow american lager. Funny seeing a liquid called beer that has very little alky. Good carbonation. To it’s credit, it really tastes like a below average lager! Even has a little taste bud impact that fools you into thinking there is alky in there. A good session brew but you may need to drink a half case to catch a buzz. If you are a lager drinker, mix these with your standard brew to extend the non drunk enjoyment time without a hangover! Much better than Coors Non-Alcoholic, this actually tastes like ubiquitous pale yellow american beer. IMHO the flavor is much better than many regular alcohol brews I’ve tasted. Surprising! Even has a slight malt or hop bitterness that develops on the back of the palate.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

33cl bottle from a local supermarket at Rhodes. Pours pale golden with a small, white head. Weak aroma of malt with hints of cooked vegetables and fruits. Medium sweet, weak in flavour, but with a noticable bitterness. Watery and close to flavourless, but quite drinkable as a thirst quencher on a hot day. Not the worst alcohol free beer, in fact better than the sweet, flavourless pale lagers that doesn’t even have some bitterness.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Can at the airport in Paris
Appearance: Drank from can, but it looked clear yellowish
Aroma: Yeast and some citrus flavors
Taste: Slightly bitter hops and yeasty
I picked this up at the airport, I didn’t realize it was NA until I opened it up. Not bad though. Better than many of the BMC beers on the market.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

I've known about Buckler beer for decades, they used to sponsor a team on the World Cycling Tour in the 1980s. Jelle Nijdam won a TdF prologue while racing for Buckler. It is a very clear gold, and the head starts out large but quickly disappears. Aroma is typical of the pale lager style, but the flavour is severely lacking. The bottle lists hops, but none can be detected.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

After a stiff walk and with a long and difficult customer meeting ahead not a bad ber. Simply straight forward barlye aroma and taste, nothin else. (Madrid 201611)

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 3

pretty much as expected...though ironically not as skunky foul as the last Heineken I had. Standard macro swill, fake-ish tasting pee water...could be refreshing ice cold but quickly wears thin.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 2

Pours a light amber with a 2 finger white head that goes down quickly. Fairly carbonated. Aroma is very mild with a hint of butter. Taste is of sweet grains and whatever plant life they throw in the brew pot. Slight malt backing. I find it funny they put their main stay in green bottles to skunk and put this piss in the good amber bottles.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

250 ml bottle, as Buckler 0,0%, brewed by Heineken Spain. Deep golden to pale brown colour, moderate white head. Typical n/a beer aroma of unhopped wort and cooked vegetables. Grainy flavour, notes of wort, maize and over-cooked vegetables.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

I di this to say I did. Now that it out of the way, won’t do it again. A sickly pale yellow colored beer, if that’s what you call this. Big soapy white head. Hangs around a long time. Really, not bad lacing left behind. The nose is skunked. Metallic-corn, In the body you’d swear you were drinking water. Taste? Not much there. Kinda like drinking a flavored water.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Pours a bright golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is of rice milk, odd i know. Grainy, slightly watery. decent for an NA, but nothing exciting.