BrewDog Nanny State 0.5% Alcohol Free Vegan Beer - 24 x 330ml Cans

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It’s the malts that come to the fore in the taste assisted by herby, grassy and mango flavours. There’s a dash of bitterness, which is all it needs. While that bulleted list took 10 seconds to read, it took an age to pull together given the depth and complexity of flavours! It is a great advert for why I buy and drink 6-8 of each beer before writing things up and deciding on flavour profiles! Lemon Aspen Pilsner from @SobahBeverages . Citrus on the nose, orange marmalade, malts. Citrus when we taste too, but it's more earthy and floral than your traditional citrus fruit. Works well in the lager free-beer.co.uk/sobah-lemon-… @FreeBeer_UK - Nov 10 Overall, the taste is nicely balanced yet feels like it’s missing a vital element and ends up a little flavourless and watery. Verdict

Thankfully, that is beginning to change now. As more and more people look to cut down on their alcohol intake, or cut it out completely, alcohol free beer has slowly started emerging from some of our breweries to make their way on to our supermarket shelves and even into our pubs and bars. Please note: BrewDog recommends that you only drink this beer whilst wearing the necessary personal protective equipment and in a premises that has passed a full health and safety risk assessment for optimum enjoyment.Honestly, I don’t think I’d notice that Nanny State was an alcohol-free beer if no one told me. If you usually enjoy a full-strength British bitter or an IPA, the hoppiness of this beer is sure to appeal to you. Whether you’re a fan of the brand or not, it’s hard to deny that Brewdog produces great beers. So how would its alcohol-free offering measure up? Some might even say that partnering with multinational supermarkets and Wetherspoon pubs goes against the punk ethos. Then again, it’s not like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols only sell their music in independent record stores.

When I smell the beer, the scent is quite piney and earthy. Not to get too poetic, but it really is something like walking through an evergreen forest after a rain shower. Very interesting. That’s the NA hops at work.The aroma is understated compared to some IPAs, but complex and interesting all the same. Importantly, it sets you up for a sip. There’s the milk sugar, lactose, in this brew too. So it’s not suitable for vegans. Punk AF calories

Punk AF pours a light straw colour – quite a lot lighter than the original I fancy. The first bottle I tried looked a bit flat, with hardly no head or lacing. But the second (from the same batch) looked better in the glass, with a modest white head. At BrewDog we appreciate your inability to know your limits - especially when it comes to alcohol – which is why we created Nanny State.

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You’ve probably guessed that this is going to taste hoppy, and it is, almost excessively so. I say ‘almost’ because BrewDog have done a great job of blending the flavours they’ve used. It’s still very bitter, and I know will not be to everyone’s taste. Rather sharp pine seems to dominate the taste, with malt not really making an appearance, except for a slight teasing of coffee/chocolate.

This leads to Wake Up Call perhaps ultimately reading more like “iced coffee” than it does coffee stout, per se, which isn’t such a bad thing for a non-alcoholic beer. It might not specifically scratch the “stout” itch, if that’s what you’re craving, but it certainly delivers on the coffee. Unlike these other beers, this might be one I’d be reaching for not when I really wanted a stout, but when I wanted a twist on iced coffee. There’s no denying it—Britain is a nation of beer lovers. The beverage has been brewed for centuries and shows no sign of losing its appeal, and with both multi-national corporations and smaller establishments offering a huge variety of British beers and ales you’re certainly not short of options. It supplemented these beers with the occasional one-off publicity-inducing beers such as “Tactical Penguin”, a 32% ABV beer, to the wrath of regulators and industry bodies. Elvis AF is simply the AF twist on the company’s year-round Elvis Juice, which is a grapefruit IPA. I’ve written before about how I’m not terribly fond of that particular style—it really flared into popularity and faded out faster than most—but I’m not sure I’ve ever sampled BrewDog’s take on it, so I’m not terribly sure what to expect here. I’m mostly just hoping that it doesn’t taste overwhelmingly artificial.

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Scottish brewery BrewDog started out as a two-man craft-beer operation in 2007. Now they have bars and breweries across the globe, but they’re still keen to hang on to their anarchic “bad boys of brewing” image. They now have breweries all over the world, bars in cities all over the world, 50,000 shareholders, a hotel, a collaboration with British Airways and have become the world’s first carbon negative brewery. They have a lot going on! Often, when I review a drink like this, it is one from a smaller brewery, or one that has just been released. However, with this drink, you don’t just have to take my (highly trained and professional) word for it. Nanny State has regularly polled at the top of non or low alcohol free beer top 10 lists, and it is not hard to see why. It’s a great drink, and one of the pioneers for the industry in this country. In 2009 They launched Equity for Punks. In a ground-breaking first, they offered people the opportunity to buy shares in our company online. Over 1,300 invested and their famous anti-business business model was born.