Approved Leave

Approved Leave is a non-alcoholic beer made by BREWTROPIC. This non-alcoholic beer is crafted in the style of a tropical sour.

BREWTROPIC's Approved Leave contains nootropics like galaxy hops, hemp seed, passionflower, and mango leaves. Together these ingredients may help your mind and body relax.

Team ZD's Description:

This beer tastes great, and the guys behind are truly innovators in the non-alc space. If you're after something to help unwind, and don't mind the odd tropical sour, this beer is for you.

It honestly just tastes like someone spiked a pacific ale with a whole bunch of sour fruit. Which in our opinion is awesome. Thicker than the other beers we stock, but also, the only beer we stock with added nootropics which may help people unwind if the taste of a good beer isn't enough.

BREWTROPIC Description:

‘Approved Leave’ is a fruited sour beer with delicate acidity, big tropical flavours and functional plant and mineral ingredients.

Packed with galaxy hops, hemp seed, passionflower and mango leaves to help your mind and body relax - inside and outside the office.

For the beer nerds: this fundamentally takes the profile a fruited gose that’s been heavily bastardised to feature a good dose of Australian Galaxy hops and a Pacific Ale that’s spent a bit too long in South Asia and Europe.

Yep, you’ve got mangoes, passionfruits a little coriander seed spice and a tiiiny bit of sea salt and Australia’s favourite yeast extract for a bit of umami to balance that tropical fruitines.

We’ve also sacked the use of any wheat in the brewing process - strictly focusing on Pale and Carapils barley malts.

We spike the water with bacterially cultured lactic acid for a  subtle tang, and with  mineral salts and sea salt for both their flavour profile and for their electrolyte content - this beer has a fairly gypsum heavy, slightly salted water profile, emulating the original mineral rich waters found at Goslar in Germany where the inspiration for this beer originated.

Galaxy hops are added at flame-out to keep the beer only mildly bitter, but distinctively hoppy.

After resting the beer for a few days, it’s force carbonated to a lively 3.5 volumes and pumped into some nice purple tinnies - designed by Livia Lima.