Erikoinen

Now that the local supermarket's selection of Mauritian beers is exhausted, it's time to review a couple of European nonalcoholic alternatives. The first one is a Dutch dark Malt Beer with 0.0 % ABV. The beer pours murky, dark brown with an extremely distant red hue. The fizzy carbonation creates a silky, milk-chocolatey head that exceeds one finger. The foamy pillow loses quickly air and descends to a thin lace ring on top. I take a deep breath and enjoy hefty sweet malt, bags of molasses, a good amount of sweet dark bread, some syrup and a tiny pinch of dark chocolate. The taste receptors like the package in some perverted way: I receive rather powerful sweet dark malt, loads of molasses and sweet skärgårdsbröd that is, nevertheless, less distinct than that in the scent. Additionally, I pick brown sugar and a silent sigh of dark chocolate. The beer finishes rather short with sweet dark malt, molasses and skärgårdsbröd that all portray substantially thinner volumes than upfront. The mouthfeel is thin, sappy, juicy and lip-glueing. The nonalcoholic Malt Beers are a strange genre per se but work neatly as a substitute for soft drink. The rating is given within the context of a Malt Beer (which is yet absent as a category in Pint Please).