• Slow@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    Bought a few bottles of non-alcoholic beer. One brand of beer tasted like salted soda water with a yellow tinge. The second bottle attempted to recreate the flavour of an alcoholic beer by adding bitterness.

    So it’s hard for me to imagine the perfect flavour of a non-alcoholic beer.

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      11 months ago

      Well just like regular beer, there’s good ones and bad ones.

      As for the excess bitterness, that’s more about IPAs and similar overly hoppy beers being both popular and easier to make in general, rather than specific to non-alcoholic ones.

      One of the most annoying things to me is when they change a non-alcoholic beer I like into an overly hoppy monstrosity. Happens far too much.

      Anyways, maybe try the non-alcoholic version of a beer you know you like? The non-alcoholic version of a bad beer will tend to be bad too 🤷