Best Alcohol Free "Beers"?


They normally rotate two or three different low ABV but this one is very good.
 
We got some alcohol free ciders left at our house few months back

What shocked me is how sweet they were; they were quite nice but full of sugar to compensate.
 
I find the 0% ciders way too sweet! Like drinking undiluted squash
Yeah I like ciders but struggled to get through them. There is 1g per 100ml more sugar in than Coca Cola. The full version only has 2.3G per 100ml less mind, a 500ml bottle having 42g sugar in.
 
I’ve tried most of the mainstream ones and of those my favourites are.
Guinness 0.0, Brooklyn Special Effects and Corona Zero.
Brewdog Punk AF isn’t too bad either.

I was having a look yesterday to get some in for over Christmas, and found a place online called Big Drop Brew which did a pack of 8 cans of four different varieties for about £15. I’m probably going to give that a go and if they’re good take up the offer the have on to buy a bigger quantity for a little discount.

I was chatting to a brewer the other day who said the AF market is expanding faster than anything else in the mainstream alcohol market at the moment. Maybe it’s time to buy buy buy 😆
 
I’ve tried most of the mainstream ones and of those my favourites are.
Guinness 0.0, Brooklyn Special Effects and Corona Zero.
Brewdog Punk AF isn’t too bad either.

I was having a look yesterday to get some in for over Christmas, and found a place online called Big Drop Brew which did a pack of 8 cans of four different varieties for about £15. I’m probably going to give that a go and if they’re good take up the offer the have on to buy a bigger quantity for a little discount.

I was chatting to a brewer the other day who said the AF market is expanding faster than anything else in the mainstream alcohol market at the moment. Maybe it’s time to buy buy buy 😆

I thought the Brewdog Punk AF was vile - very watery with a hint of the real thing.

Guinness 0.0% is excellent, as is Heineken 0%.
 
You still have to be aware of what you are comparing in AF land

Heineken in cans is £2 per litre or £2.40 in bottles whereas say Moretti is £4 p/l in bottles and there's plenty of big premium options going up to £6.50 p/l . I don't bother with them or haven't so far as don't want to pay that much. Heineken is my pop replacement for a during the day if I need a fizzy thirst quencher . In the evening, I'm currently focusing on Hoegaarden, Guiness, San Miguel , but usually go for the mid ground ones that I know I like , when they are on some kind of discount or offer so in 3 months times I will have changed.
 
I tried loads of low alcohol beers a few months back, found it quite a depessing experience tbh, as found none of them hit the mark. gave up in the end, and started trying "better" & different soft drinks, like elderflower which were nicer! fortunately, am now back on real beer and enjoying it. the best low alcohol beers I found were these....


@afcb_acklam How easy is it to get hold of this stuff? Do they ship from the UK?
 
I thin in I had Peronist over Christmas and I couldn’t really tell the difference!!
 
After my demise into chugging on vodka literally from the bottle at all hours, I am now on a journey of recovery. I did try the "only soft drinks route", but I just don't like soft drinks that much. I still want a "beer" but without the alcohol. This goes against AA (I am not a member anymore) and a lot of other recovering people and I do not class myself as an alcoholic, just a person with massive depressions, who turns to alcohol to quieten my head, which every time makes it 100% worse, so I drink more.. repeat the cycle. but next time I think, it will be fine, but it obviously never is....

So I started recently testing 0 - 0.5% drinks and some are actually very nice. Shame 90% of the bars I have been to with my wife, don't stock any non alcoholic beers, so back to the tonic water.

I have found the following to be not bad at all.

Heineken 0.0%
Guinness 0.0%
Peroni 0.0%
Erdinger alkoholfrei grapefruit

Any others that you feel are decent and are easy to get hold of plus not £20 a 330ml can :D
I love poncey overpriced beer in cans with fancy stickers on and recently found that there are more and more no or low alcohol ones. Tried about 4 different ones in off the ground a few weeks ago and was surprised that all of them were nice. Things have definitely moved on from Kaliber.
 
Had teo good ones. First Kine Pine Trail IPA from Big Drop


Second was Lucky Saint.
 
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