TopCat
Putin fanboy
No it's of great interest. I would drink a product like this if it tasted of beer but was booze free. Problem is the booze provides the underlying taste. Remove it and what's left?
Low-alcohol and alcohol-free beer recommendations
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discobastard
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Have a look at some of the recommendations then, try some and come back and tell us what you think.
Lots of breweries are experimenting with different techniques for either removing alcohol or brewing it lower and keeping the taste (vacuum, osmosis etc).
Have you tried some of the recent crop of booze free beers? Big Drop, Endless Session, etc?
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Becks blue is gross. Swan lager used to do a 1 percent beer thirty plus years ago. Is that still going?
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I await personal recommendation. I tend to drink two cokes and then leave the pub if I am not drinking booze.
I recommend Big Drop and Endless Session then.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I will try and will report back.I recommend Big Drop and Endless Session then.
Cid
Proper break this time
There's the 'best no/low alcohol beers' thread too, which is a bit more up to date than this, but shorter. Perhaps a passing mod could merge all three (inc the Christmas one) as it is a pretty useful thing...er... given urban's demographic. FridgeMagnet
My standards are nanny state and ghost ship. I've tried a couple that are equally good/maybe better, but can't remember the names. Kind of want to get a taster pack or something. Definitely been a dramatic increase in quality, even just over the last couple of years.
My standards are nanny state and ghost ship. I've tried a couple that are equally good/maybe better, but can't remember the names. Kind of want to get a taster pack or something. Definitely been a dramatic increase in quality, even just over the last couple of years.
discobastard
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The challenge there is that while there's quite a lot of interesting stuff to try, even the craft beer places tend to just stick a few bottle of Becks Blue in the fridge as a 'concession' to non drinkers. And then run out.
The more people that ask and make the point, the more pubs might start stocking decent stuff. I got the email address of the Craft Beer Co person responsible for deciding on what to stock yesterday. Going to see if I can get them to provide a bit more variety. Then it will actually be worth the trip and it'll be a win win.
I think one of the problems is how AF beer is viewed by beer enthusiasts that run and staff the bars - they're mostly pretty scornful IME. The bars might get a crate of something or the other, but without buy in from the bar staff it doesn't get pushed at all - half of it goes out of date before it's sold, so they don't bother getting it in again.
I passed a Morrisons in Manchester today and picked up a bottle of this - it's very good indeed. Good call.
They also had a couple of the big drop beers (the stout and the IPA - not the lager which - despite being the best of their range - is never available anywhere...)
Lazy Llama
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Updated thread title as suggested.
discobastard
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
It was in (I think) a sainsbury's in a distant part of north west london. They actually had a surprisingly wide range of AF stuff.
discobastard
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Had my first Ghost Ship last night (was looking for Punk AF but still no sign). Yeah definitely one of the better ones [emoji1360]
sunnysidedown
caput mortuum
Southwold 0.5% Pale Ale is my choice for now, very nice.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
The thread title now doesn't make sense, by the way. Unless there is such a thing as 'low beer' or 'low free beer'.
Limerick Red
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Not sure if yis have it in England yet, but the "Pure Brew" by Guinness is absolutely banging. Been off the sauce about 2 years now after fairly serious health problems, so becoming a bit of a connoisseur of the Non-Alchie beers.
In Ireland Lidl do an own brand IPA, that isnt a million miles away from Punk, 0.5%
Aldi here do a Russian one called Baltica, that is a really nice non-alcholic lager. Ironically when I did drink, weatherspoons in Kilburn used to sell an 8% version of it.
The Heineken one is pretty okay too, as is Stiegl a kinda German pils type tipple.
In Ireland Lidl do an own brand IPA, that isnt a million miles away from Punk, 0.5%
Aldi here do a Russian one called Baltica, that is a really nice non-alcholic lager. Ironically when I did drink, weatherspoons in Kilburn used to sell an 8% version of it.
The Heineken one is pretty okay too, as is Stiegl a kinda German pils type tipple.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
had that the other day, quite hoppy as they say but found it perfectly pleasant - will buy againAlso picked up, but yet to try,...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
saw ghost ship (and brooklyn special effects) in waitrose the other day, ghost ship in wetherspoons, very good
I came across this monthly beer club - not going to subscribe 'cause it's a bit expensive, but had a look through their lists of beers and there's loads I've never seen before but want to try...
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