Alcohol Free Beer Explorers

The 6th Beer in the Nothing but the rain beer from Ridgeside  is a pale ale with Sabro and chinnok Hops.  It pours with  a very pale colour with quite a lot of bubbles to it.  On the nose you get a bit of a tropical smell with a hint of coconut.  It has a nice tropical juice flavour to it with hints of citrus fruits similar to what I have tasted in other beers using Sabro.  The taste is very Subtle though and feels like it needs to be brought out a bit more.   6/10 Review by Tim Jenkins This beer was purchased from SoberSauce  but is also available from all good Alcohol Free Beer suppliers.  

What is SoberSauce SoberSauce is an  online alcohol free beer retailer.  Set up by Adam Uttley, Adam set up sober sauce as he was having difficulty finding good alcohol free beers in the shops.  He set up sobersauce to help people who like him wanted to try good quality alcohol free beers but were having difficulty finding them.  Adam has now tried over 200 alcohol free beers and has a very good knowledge of what is out there.   This is where the Latest Beers box comes in.   The Discovery Box In the Discovery box Adam personally select 8 alcohol free beers a month to send to the members.  Most these beers will be new to the market so likely be ones you haven't tried elsewhere. There will be a variety of different styles that gives the end customer a good selection to find out what ones they like.   You can also add extra beers to be delivered with your box which saves on extra postage and packaging. The box costs £19.99 + P&P and is available direct from the sobersauce website.

  This is a great Brown ale from Samuel Smith and very much unique in flavour in the alcohol free world.   Best served at room temperature this pours with a nice dark colour and creamy looking head.   Has a nice sweet smell to it.    Tastes like a good brown ale with nice malty taste with a caramel finish to it. 8/10 Written by Tim Jenkins 

  I’ve treated myself to a discovery mixed case from CoastBeer Co. I was lucky enough to pick this up when they were running 25% off, but if you’ve missed out on that they currently [at the time of writing] have 15% off on their website if you use the code ‘15OFF’ – and if you miss that too you can sign up to their ‘community’ and you’ll get 15% off your first order.   A little bit about Coast Beer Co. Coast Beer Co. started in 2019. Like many breweries who are breaking out to specialise in alcohol free beers, they are relatively new. However, that doesn’t mean they are lagging behind. Their website tells us that they are “ on a mission to shake up the tasteless, mass-produced alcohol free beer of the past” , and from what I’ve experienced they are doing a fine job at it. They started with just two beers and have quickly expanded that range. Each time they have kept true to their mission, after all “ it’s about taste, quality and creativity”. You will notice that all of their b

  Pour: Nice caramel Colour with a decent small head.   Smell:  overly sweet malty smell and to be honest does not smell very pleasant. Taste:  well there is lots of malt and  then a sweet finish.   Overall:  Not really a fan of this one its a bit too malty for my liking. Score: 4/10 Review by Tim Jenkins    

This is a new one from Nirvana for me the classic IPA. It pours a lovely golden colour and is very carbonated with a good stream of bubbles rising up through the glass.  Smells Tropical definitely hints of pineapple. The taste is very hoppy but leaves an artificial bitterness behind which seems to be a thing with a lot of the Non Alcoholic IPAs. 6/10 I shall hopefully be reviewing this again on 16th when I take part in the Nirvana virtual tastings .  Will be interesting to see if my opinion on this and the 5 other Nirvana beers changes when taking advice from a professional on how they should be tasted. Article by Tim Jenkins

  This Pours with a nice hazy IPA look.  The pour is very carbonated but soon settles down. Smells very much of tropical fruits. The taste starts tropical but then hits with quite a bit of bitterness which leaves a bit of strange aftertaste. 6/10 Post by Tim Jenkins 

This pours with a lovely Amber colour and lots of  hops on the nose. Lovely sweet taste too it reminds me a lot of London pride and similar style beers.   Went really well with fish #afbeer 130 7/10

  This was very bland and didnt really get any flavours coming across 4/10

 Now I'm not really a fan of peanut butter but always willing to try any beer once.   This pours with quite a large head but it disappears very quickly.  Now the smell of this is very interesting it actually smells a lot like Butter popcorn.   The taste as well is very popcorn like Buttery with a nutty finish.   Its a very pleasant tasting beer and certainly a unique taste as far as alcohol free goes.   6/10 AFBeer 128

 One of the biggest subjects in the Alcohol free Beer World this year has to be Guiness 0.0 launch in October and it's subsequent recall 2 weeks later.  This was one Beer everyone in the alcohol free world was trying to get and from those (un)lucky enough to get hold of it had Good things to say about it.  Personally I didn't get to try it and thought I'd missed my chance to try a Traditional Irish Stout but alcohol free.  That was until now and the launch of Big Drops Good Things Irish Stout.  Now this beer probably would never have come about had it not been for a certain little Microbiological Contamination but that aside its here.  Straight away you can see from the Can that this is a dig at the Big boys. It starts with the beers name itself Good things.  Now I'm sure we have heard many times before from a certain Irish stout maker how Good things Come to those who wait.  Then there's the text on the Can itself has many references to the Big Boys of the Irish st