Old Speckled Hen - Low Alcohol
Greene King / Morland Brewery

From the bottle into a pint glass - the colour of pennies with no head to speak of. Fairly disgusting - overwhelming copper and metallic nose, then a sickly-sweet malt taste on the tongue. A lingering, astringent aftertaste. Alcohol-free beer can and should be better than this.

L- Pale chestnut, crystal clear, pour with 2mm head that clears swiftly.
S- Smells similar to the 'alcoholic version' but has quite a distinctive bready smell that often seems more prominent in low/no alcohol beers.
T- The taste is very bready too, like a lightly malted version of malt-loaf (bread) transformed into a beer.
F- The typically thin and somewhat watery feel you expect from a low/no-alc beer.
O- Low/no beers aren't something I usually buy, I just occasionally buy ones new to me to see if any of them merit possibly buying again. I've yet to find one, though Adnam's Ghost Ship probably came closest.

From the big sainsbury on Cromwell Road, London 500ml bottle £1.50 'BBE: Sep 20'. Unusual having such a short date

Bottle. Amber with a thin light tan and dense head.
Aroma of unfermented wort. Very hoppy with brown sugar and caramel malt.
Tastes the same. Some green leaf apparent.
Low carbonation. Quite soft.
Meh.