Natural Bridges
Surreal Brewing Company

A: crystal clear; 1 finger white head that receded to a wispy cap with a thin tight collar; nice lacing;

S: chemicals;

T: metallic and chemicals;

M: light to medium bodied; moderate carbonation; moderately dry finish;

O: undrinkable;

 

From the can, it pours a clear yellow golden color with a nice white head that slowly reduces. The nose gets a musty basement type scent. The mouth gets some light grain with a modest mouth feel. Little to no aftertaste.

Poured from the can into a Gaffel branded stange glass.

A nice deep light orange body color, slightly darker than most Kolsch's but has excellent clarity and a nice fluffy white matching head. Head also stands a little tall, reaching almost 3 fingers with a good looking top. Good amount of cola sized carbonation bubbles also.

Things go a little odd even for an NA on this nose. Lots of dry flour notes, and an almost wall paste sensing smell. Sweetness is non existent which is a nice surprise, with just the faintest hint of caramel.

Palate seems to go astray. More of a dry flour grain sense, and even more so a really wet backbone even for a near beer. Muddy earth finish seems to come out a little in the aftertaste strangely too. Slightly seltzery as well but lacking any sense of distinction.

While certainly there's expected characters of the beer that are stripped out, there's very little beer like let alone kolsch flavor to this at all. I do like the fact the sweetness is dialed out or at least non existent compared to other NAs, but there are way better NA beers out there.

Poured from a can into a pint glass. Pours clear yellow with a small white head. Smells of sweet grain, slight citrus, but pretty weak. Tastes of some grain, not much else, pretty watery. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, but watery, good carbonation. Overall, an average NA beer.

First of this style. High carbonation, every time I open a can it bursts out ! Lots of foam, very airy that does not last very long though. Beer is ok, not much taste though. As others noted, there indeed a mineral water like taste. I guess it is better than the macro brew NA but not that much.

Pours clear, gold in color with one inch head. Taste is white bread, mineral and honey. Light bodied, sweet with high carbonation. Seventeen calories and loads of taste. A lot more mineral taste than other kolsches I have had. Super crushable. Most super low calorie beers are bland. Impressive with how much flavor is in here. This may be a new fridge staple.

Pale gold crystal clear pour with rocky white head; ok cap retention, solid ring and sudsy lacing. Very faint floral hop nose. Very little flavor save an odd melon-like aftertaste. Thin watery body and almost zippy carbonation; crisp finish. Overall there is nothing bad here, it’s just like drinking seltzer water though