VandeStreek Playground IPA 330ml can:
VandeStreek Playground IPA is a non-alcoholic (0.5% ABV) India Pale Ale known for its bold hop flavor and aroma, despite its low alcohol content. It's brewed with four American hops, resulting in a beer with citrus and tropical fruit flavors, balanced with a noticeable bitterness. The beer pours a rusty orange color with a lingering head and offers a medium to full-bodied experience.
The beer is characterized by vibrant citrus and tropical fruit notes, alongside a prominent hop bitterness. Some describe tasting hints of mango, lychee, and even coriander seed. The beer typically pours a deep, rusty orange with a persistent, lacy head.
The beer is crafted with five different American hops, including Mosaic, Citra & Cascade, which are known for their aromatic and flavorful characteristics. The brewing process focuses on creating a low-alcohol beer with full flavor, rather than removing alcohol after fermentation.
What the Brewery say about it:
This is the most awarded Non Alcoholic IPA in the world; playground! Originated as a one-off special in an innovative series of beers. During a period of family expansion at Sander and Ronald's home, they wondered, among other things, why no one used American hops in low-alcohol beer. That's why we went looking for the best ingredients, brewing techniques and we learned from our German colleagues. We came up with a completely new recipe with a unique yeast that barely converts sugars into alcohol, special malts that provide the body in combination with the tastiest American hops. The taste of our Playground Non Alcoholic IPA is full of peach and fresh citrus fruits. It is a beer with a large body which ensures a round bitter mouthfeel. Playground symbolizes what the brewery is to us – a playground. In our brewery we get to play every day with ingredients, machines, each other and last but not least; forklifts!
vandeStreek Brouwerij
.....vandeStreek Brouwerij is a new craft brewery based in Utrecht in the Netherlands. The beers are modern, full of flavour, challenging and creative – above all, top quality. Brothers Sander and Ronald Van de Streek started home brewing in 2010. Production was still just 50 ltr per brew in May 2013 when their beers were introduced to the public at the Utrecht Beer Brewers Festival. By 2016 a crowdfunding campaign allowed Ronald and Sander to become full time brewers, settle on a core range of beers and draw up plans for their own brewery, which opened for production in 2017. VandeStreek brew a core range of seven beers including the Playground Non Alcoholic IPA. Then, in addition, they brew a ‘special’ every other month, complemented by both collaborations and ‘Barrel Aged’ beers from their growing stock of barrels.
