Much to my surprise, this is the first time we are featuring WellBeing Brewing on here. WellBeing comes to us from St. Louis and has a delicious line of non-alcoholic beers and CBD waters. My thought that we featured them before was because of my mention of their Intentional IPA, one of my favorites for sure. But this is the first official review of one of their tasty treats, and what a perfect one for the Halloween weekend.
This week, we are drinking Hellraiser Dark Amber from WellBeing Brewing. There are not as many ambers in the craft NA world, so it’s always a nice treat to find a good one. O’Doul’s claims to have an amber, but I claim to have a toilet, so you can see the correlation. This one deserves no such thing though.
How Does It Pour?
Hellraiser Dark Amber by WellBeing Brewing pours the way you would hope an amber would, with a darker copper color and the aroma of spices and malt coming off the top of the cream-colored head.
How Does It Taste?
The flavor is a balanced mouth feel that hits all the right notes for an amber ale and is especially perfect for the cold weather coming in. WellBeing Brewing does a great job with adding spice for flavor and balance, but not making it so strong it stands out in any identifiable way.
WellBeing Brewing’s Hellraiser Dark Amber gets a 3.2 out of 5 on Untappd and I would give it an even higher score in the amber category. A lot of non-alcoholic ambers leave a skunky taste in your mouth and smell like a urial, but WellBeing Brewing does a great job of taking what you love about high octane ambers and putting it in an NA form for you to imbibe. Enjoy and let me know what you think!
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