Non-alcoholic beer review: Bellwoods Mythmaker Pilsner

Sorry if I haven't been doing any non-alcoholic reviews lately - I've been busy with work and life lately. Also, there's just not many options to choose from at the moment in my neck of the woods.

Today's NA sampling is Bellwoods Brewing's Mythmaker Non-Alcoholic Pilsner.

From the website: Mythmaker is our non-alcoholic pilsner, light, crisp, and brewed in collaboration with our friends at Burial. It brings together their approach to non-alc brewing with the techniques we use across our own program here at Bellwoods. 

This beer started with a simple but difficult goal: brew a true light beer at 0.5% that actually tastes good. No hiding behind heavy hops or tricks, just clean malt, precise hop character, and a focus on drinkability above all else. 

Built with the same ingredients, yeast strains, and standards behind beers like NA Jelly King and Stay Classy, Mythmaker carries those ideas into a lighter frame. 

It pours a straw gold in the glass, luminous and bright, with a clean white head that pulls you in. On the nose, a careful dry hop of Tettnanger brings soft notes of dried wildflower and a faint, refined spice that stays subtle and breezy. 

The palate is clean and crisp, built on a lean malt base that supports the hop character without weighing it down. It finishes dry, with snappy carbonation that keeps things refreshing and palate cleansing sip after sip. 

It drinks like an ultra-light, ultra-pale take on a classic premium lager, easy, familiar, and dangerously crushable. Delicate, nuanced, and designed for peak refreshment, this is a beer that disappears faster than you expect. This is our first iteration and, like any good myth, will only evolve from here. 0.5% ABV

Appearance: It's slightly cloudy with a light yellowish/straw body to it, decent amount of carbonation in the body, and a moderate amount snow white head on top that diminishes rather quickly, leaving behind a light amount of lacing on the glass.

Aroma: Notes of lemon, a tad bit of a grassy yet bitter hop presence, moderate notes of raw dough.

Taste: Crisp to the palate, fairly light, mostly notes of lemon, a bit of dill, slightly grassy, and a moderate amount of doughiness to it. The aftertaste is a lemon-dill kind of taste that lingers for a good while.

Overall Thoughts: I don't love this one, it's alright but each time I've had it I get that doughiness that I just really don't care for. I would say to get the Stay Classy IPA instead, but it also has that doughiness to it.. but their Jelly King line of NA products?! Best in the world!

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