More and more craft breweries are jumping on the alcohol-free bandwagon and we couldn’t be happier about it. Gone are the days when alcohol-free beers tasted like nothing, were bland, monotonous and all the same. Today we have a whole range of fine brews with less than 0.5% alcohol content available to us and none of them are boring. The growing interest in these types of brews has led to great advances in technology and better methods of removing the alcohol. There are now even yeast strains that produce only a very small amount of alcohol when fermented.
One of these successful non-alcoholic beers comes from the Hanover brewery Mashsee and bears the fitting name Blaufrei. The brew with the humorous name (a play on the words lead-free and blue, which is used synonymously with the term drunk) is an alcohol-free lager with an alcohol content of less than 0.5%. A combination of pilsner, sour and caramel malt ensures a full-bodied body and a soft honey sweetness, while the hops Zamba and Sabro bring fruity notes of golden peach and ripe lychee into the glass.
Blaufrei comes in a very delicately cloudy lemon yellow and complements its peach-lychee aroma with sunny citrus fruit, creamy caramel, freshly mown grass, crispy bread crust, yeast plait, light malt and a noble bitterness.
Mashsee Brauereiwater, barley malt , hops, yeast
Nutritional values per 100 ml:
Energy: 99.3 kJ | 23.4 kcal
Fat: 0.0 g
of which saturated: 0.0 g
Carbohydrates: 5.0 g
of which sugar: 2.5 g
Protein: 0.4 g
Salt: 0.003 g
