[troutman]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

troutman, i'm surprised to see you this simplistic.

Alcohol greatly alters the flavour of beer. The processes involved to mimic the obvious flavours of beer like malt and yeast without creating alcohol leaves a significantly inferior product.

Some of these scored well in tastings:

http://www.11points.com/Food-Drink/1...,_Taste_Tested

http://www.hitherandthither.net/2013...lic-beers.html

http://www.thrillist.com/drink/natio...eer-taste-test

We felt the best way to get our beer experts to critique N.A. beer exactly how they would a real beer was to force them to consider that they might actually be drinking real beer, and to judge it as such. And we chose Keystone Light because it's a mass-produced beer: It's one that wouldn't stand out like, say, a craft IPA. They judged the beer on aromas, flavor, and on whether they thought it was a real beer.

O'Doul's was far and away the best reviewed out of all the N.A. beers. It might only have a .5% ABV, but our experts thought it tasted like the real thing.

And how did the Keystone rank? It would've ranked right in the middle of the pack of the N.A. beers. Only two out of four experts thought it might be the real beer.