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# Beer Origin Style Score Date
7301 Åbro Arton56 Sweden Pale Lager 1.2

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

February 2019: Shared 330 ml bottle, way past BB date. Golden colour. Awful aroma. Undrinkable. Might sample again, if fresh - and for free. My expectations won't be high, though.

Sep 23, 2023
09:55:55 PM
7302 Three Coins German Lager Sri Lanka Pale Lager 1.2

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

August 2017: Shared bottle at local tasting, as Three Coins German Lager. Clear pale golden colour. Terrible aroma, crap. Dry grainy flavour, really bad.

Mar 27, 2024
08:51:17 PM
7303 Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc Sans Alcool France Reduced Alcohol 1.2

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

September 2018: 330 ml blue bottle, from Helgø Meny Maxi, Sandnes. ABV is 0.5%. Hazy pale golden colour, moderate to small white head. The aroma has notes of lightstruck hops, wheat, baby porridge and citrus, a hint of vomit. Citric and thin mouthfeel. The flavour has some sweetness, with distinct and unpleasant notes of baby porridge and overcooked vegetables.

May 24, 2024
08:38:56 PM
7304 Bud Light United States Light / Lite Lager 1.2

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

473 ml can, now unfortunately available in Norway. ABV here is 4.1%. Golden colour, fizzy, moderate head. Surprisingly strong aroma of artifical candy. Fizzy mouthfeel, a little sweetness, no real flavour at all, hardly any traceable hops, no aftertaste. Crap.

Jun 12, 2007
04:43:12 PM
7305 Flag (Ivory Coast) Cote dIvoire Pale Lager 1.2

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

Sampled 65 cl bottle, RBNAG 2007 in Grimstad, as Flag Spéciale (Côte d'Ivoire / Ivory coast). ABV is 5.2%. Pale golden colour. Industrial sickly aroma. Bland and utterly boring flavour.

Nov 13, 2007
05:31:13 PM
7306 Marmara Gold Turkey Pale Lager 1.2

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

1 litre green bottle, ABV (or was that ABW?) was 4.1%. Shared with my beerpal Olav who bought it in Turkey, thx! Pale golden colour, moderate white head. First a pleasant Heineken-like 'skunky' whiff when opening the the bottle, then a very unpleasant and bland aroma with notes of boiled vegetables and wet cardboard. Bland flavour with notes of rubber, glue and wet cardboard. Really, really dreadful.

Oct 27, 2008
05:40:27 PM
7307 Suttungs Mjød Norway Mead 1.2

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

500 ml bottle, at Vinmonopolet. The only commercially available Norwegian mead. Clear, nearly colourless like water, just a streak of greenish yellow. No head or carbonation. Weird strong aroma, with some good will I might say "interesting" - honey of course, lots of undefined herbs and spices, but also strong fruity (green apples) and grassy notes. Some unpleasant hints of vomit and cleaning agent. Very sweet with some honey notes, but tastes more like a sweet and really bad white wine with herbal off-flavours. Ugh. I guess meads are not my thing, and definitely not this one.

Sep 29, 2005
03:20:29 PM
7308 Fjelløl Alkoholfri Norway Reduced Alcohol 1.2

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

330 ml bottle, bought at LIDL Norway. Looks like a pale lager, gets a point for a tolerable head. Otherwise this is another offensive n/a beer, sweetish aroma and flavour with notes of grit, the usual n/a "boiled" notes are there. As with all(?) n/a beers: Avoid!

Oct 11, 2005
04:01:11 PM
7309 Ringnes Akairyu Norway Light / Lite Lager 1.2

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

440 ml can. A new pale lager from Ringnes (again developed by the marketing department, rather than by a brewer with any self esteem). Allegedly inspired by Asian / Japanese dry lagers. Very pale clear golden colour, large head that soon subsides. Weak sweetish aroma with a faint hint of hops. Bland, watery and extremely boring flavour. A glass of sparkling water would be better. But then, sparkling water has no alcohol ... If you LIKE beer, avoid!

Feb 6, 2006
05:37:06 PM
7310 Munkholm Alkoholfritt Juleøl Norway Reduced Alcohol 1.2

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

(330 ml bottle). Ringnes' attempt at making a non-alcoholic Christmas/Yule beer. The result is as poor as Santa Clausthaler. Looks pretty good though - reddish colour, thick lasting head. Aroma has some malts on a sickly background of over-boiled vegetables. Flavour is blah! again: over-boiled vegetables and sickly sweet porridge with some caramel. Thin and watery mouthfeel. Aftertaste leaves a real nasty medicinal and metallic bitterness. Another truly miserable n/a beer!

Oct 18, 2006
02:29:18 PM
7311 Aass Uten Norway Reduced Alcohol 1.2

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

(Bottle). "Uten" is Norwegian for "without" - this is a beer without alcohol. Looks OK, golden colour, good thick head. Malty sweet aroma that becomes sickly as the beer warms up. Tastes as if it's made from a little malts, a little hops and lots of contaminated water from an industrial waste dump. Avoid!

Oct 19, 2006
03:31:19 PM
7312 Tuborg Lite 4,5 Norway Light / Lite Lager 1.2

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

500 ml can, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. Very pale golden colour, fluffy head of moderate retention. "Artificial" sweet aroma, unpleasant. Incredibly boring flavour with "plenty of nothing". Even the new "Ringnes Lite" is slightly better than this. This is a low carb beer to forget!

Feb 4, 2007
04:47:04 PM
7313 Beck's Alkoholfrei Germany Reduced Alcohol 1.2

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

(33 cl bottle, bought in Norway). Fizzy straw coloured water with some unpleasant metallic bitterness. I can't believe I actually paid for this. If I'm ever desperate for a n/a drink, I'd rather have a bottle of sparkling water.

Apr 24, 2005
05:06:24 PM
7314 Gaymers Olde English Cyder United Kingdom Cider 1.2

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

500 ml can. Bought by mistake in a London store when I was in a hurry just before closing time - thought it was an unrated beer! Fizzy sourish stuff. Watery mouthfeel. Gave me a heartburn - and I didn’t even finish the can! Industrial ciders like this one seem utterly pointless to me. Avoid!

May 14, 2005
04:56:14 PM
7315 Miller Genuine Draft United States Pale Lager 1.1

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

Seriously struck by beer rating addiction, I bought this beer only to rate it - and I hate myself for it! Hate hate hate!! I paid good money for this crap, in the US at least it’s cheap - here it’s expensive. Importing this shit to Europe is totally ridiculous! And the alternative in Norway, if you want an American beer, is mostly Bud!! (If you’re ’lucky’, you might find Michelob! *and a couple others at "Vinmonopolet".) My expectations were very low, but I soon found out that this ’beer’ was even worse than I expected. Aroma reminiscent of the wine yeast of my disastrous, short lived wine-making career 15 years ago. Excessive head that disappears rather quickly. Hardly any flavour at all - just a bland, metallic mouthfeel. Luckily, there is no aftertaste either (if there was, it would surely have been bad). ’Genuine draught’ my ass! This is just bad, real BAD!!

Jan 20, 2005
05:58:20 PM
7316 Kopparbergs Special Brew X-Strong 7.5% Sweden Strong Lager 1.1

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

(500 ml can). Golden colour, moderate head. Sickly sweetish chemical aroma, flavour dominated by a revolting alcoholic sweetness. Not good. Rerate: I started writing before I had finished the beer. As it turned out, I was unable to finish the glass. That very rarely happens to me. Congratulations, Kopparbergs!

Feb 16, 2005
06:13:16 PM
7317 Santa Clausthaler Germany Reduced Alcohol 1.1

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

A non-alcoholic Christmas beer! Sounds like a joke - tastes like a joke too. Brownish golden colour, just a little darker than the ordinary Clausthaler. Malty aroma that gets sickly as the beer warms up. Sickly flavour, foul aftertaste. Avoid!

Mar 20, 2005
06:16:20 PM
7318 Baladin Sud Italy Witbier 1.1

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

330 ml can, as Birra Baladin Sud, from Vaaland, Bryne. ABV 4.5%. Slightly hazy and very pale golden colour, moderate to small white head. Aroma of wheat and very stale jam / marmalade, not good. The flavour is on the sweet side, again unfresh notes of stale jam and citrus, drainpour. Baladin should be ashamed of this one.

Jun 18, 2024
01:32:56 PM
7319 Klokk FRIPA Radler Julebrus Norway Reduced Alcohol 1.1

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

Shared 330 ml can at Christmas Eve, we all hated this one. A terrible Radler with n/a beer and Norwegian "julebrus" (Christmas soda) - aroma and flavour of bubblegum, chemical waste and vomit. Message to Klokk: It is allowed to make experiments, but when the experiment is not successful, it is also allowed to pour the entire batch down the drain. You just can't sell crap like this.

Dec 24, 2024
05:49:42 PM
7320 Grolsch Non Alcoholic (Premium Malt) Netherlands Reduced Alcohol 1.1

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

330 ml green bottle, as "Grolsch Non Alcoholic", courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. Golden colour, moderate head. Unmistaken sickly n/a beer aroma with "boiled" notes (= vegetables that have been boiled far too long) and grit. "Unfresh" and sickly flavour, notes of grit. Fizzy mouthfeel. Bad.

May 25, 2007
06:54:25 PM
7321 Łomża 0.0% Poland Reduced Alcohol 1.1

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

500 ml green bottle, from EKO Market, Stavanger. Clear golden colour, small white head. Strong aroma of grits, wort, baby porridge and over-boiled vegetables. The flavour is first slightly citric, then gritty and grainy, low bitterness. Won't buy again.

May 8, 2024
01:40:07 AM
7322 Cerná Hora Forman Czech Republic Reduced Alcohol 1.1

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

Bottle, kindly shared by gunnar. ABV is 0.0%. Golden colour, low head. Sickly aroma of unhopped wort, grain, porridge and over-boiled vegetables. Flavour of wet cardboard. Pass.

Dec 3, 2010
12:00:00 PM
7323 Meister Max Egypt Strong Lager 1.1

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

Can at local tasting, as Meister Max 8% Lager Beer, shared by our beerpal Olav. Pale yellow colour, moderate white head. Terrible industrial aroma, chemical waste and raw alcohol. Disgusting sweetish chemical flavour. Undrinkable.

Jan 21, 2012
12:00:00 PM
7324 Budweiser Chelada United States Spiced Beer 1.1

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

Shared 25 fl.oz. can at local tasting. Cloudy orange to red colour, hardly any head. Aroma of cheap ketchup and stale seawater ponds. Sickly flavour of stale ketchup, salt and spices. Undrinkable.

Jun 12, 2018
12:00:00 PM
7325 Trio Lettøl Norway Reduced Alcohol 1.1

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

330 ml bottle, bought at LIDL Norway. Pale golden colour, low head. Sweetish aroma, grainy with some strange and very unpleasant sidenotes of undefinable industrial waste. Flavour is grainy with unpleasant "industrial" sidenotes, and the "boiled" house character (you know, vegetables etc. that have been boiled too long) that seems to be the trademark of Trio Bryggeri. In a blind taste I’d probably have guessed that this was a completely n/a beer. This is one to avoid!

Oct 11, 2005
06:14:11 AM