[Closed] Alcohol free Beer

Bravia has a really nice taste at 0%

becks is not too far from proper becks.

i'll never forget a mate coming back from the bar at weatherspoons and proclaiming loudly "i got this guest beer, caliber never heard of it, only cost a quid" he looked so proud. we all sat there and pissed ourselves!

caliber is crap-don't go there.

another vote here for Becks
also Sainsburys own brand 0.5% german lager

waits to be slagged off but somedays i think my liver deserves a chance

be honest what you realy want is

A nice cup of tea 😉

Alcohol free beer is illegal - fact

Alcohol-free lager should be banned. Tea, coffee and Coca Cola are fine.

You can get alcohol free versions of some nice wheat beer - can't remember which ones sorry. Some of em aren't bad.

Drinking non-alcoholic beer is like muffing your sister………..
it tastes the same, but there’s just something not right about it.

It's about as pointless as vegetarian sausages

^ what a ridiculous thing to say.

Alchohol free lager?

I much prefer lager free alchohol....

My gf is vegetarian and doesn't drink - I have tried vegetarian sausages and alcohol free beer and some of em aren't too bad at all. Surely if people enjoy them that's the only thing that matters.

Weird childish macho attitudes being displayed in this thread. 😕

Bavaria 0.0% here - fewer calories too. Kaliber / Cobra not that great, the Becks is passable. Trick is to not mix drinking it with the real stuff. In Spain, the San Miguel sin alcohol is really quite good stuff, and available everywhere.

Flatly refuse to get drawn on the whys and wherefores of it's the right thing to do or not, but as a veggie sausage eater, I'm probably not the best person to comment. 🙂

(Recoils in horror, from the wrongness of alcohol-free beer)

Woon't go that far, Lowey! 😯

Oh and I think it was Erdinger that make nice alcohol free wheat beer.

I prefer the Cobra to the Becks (which tastes metallic to me), caliber is awful, 'bitburger drive' was highly recommended on forums, but I find it very 'dusty' tasting, so far the cobra wins, a bit sweet, but very smooth & drinkable if very chilled, rather like a nice cup of char in reverse 😉

Kaliber tastes like sh*t brown bread.

Cobra is really good IMHO the secret is to get it very cold.

Buy some alc-free Becks and squeeze quarter of a lime in the glass before you pour it.

It's [i]actually very nice[/i] to drink, try it.

markenduro - Member
It's about as pointless as vegetarian sausages

sc-xc - Member
^ what a ridiculous thing to say.

no its not.

If your going to have sausages, have sausages. not some veggie version of the real thing.
Thats like saying "lets have a meat free steak!" what the hells the point? if you want what tastes like meat, have meat. otherwise, dont.

Saw some 2.1% stuff in Tesco the other day but it was Value range and in a tin so gave it a miss .

Useful if you're thirsty and have a large pile of ironing to get through (in one piece) but otherwise stay well clear. My lads still haven't forgiven me for buying it but on a plus note - it stayed in the fridge for far longer 😉

I tried vegetarian 'bacon' once.

I just don't see the point. If you don't want to eat meat, then why eat something that tries to look and taste like meat?

I've yet to try any of this unholy brew that is alcohol-free beer, mind.

Thats like saying "lets have a meat free steak!" what the hells the point? if you want what tastes like meat, have meat. otherwise, dont.

Unless you would like to eat sausages for the taste, but don't want animals to have to die for it. Is it really so hard to grasp?

What grumm said, also, if you don't want veggie sausages don't eat them, how does it really affect you?

Drinking non-alcoholic beer is like muffing your sister………..
it tastes the same, but there’s just something not right about it.

You can't argue with the voice of experience.

🙂

oh dear. so a sausage is an animal?

I always thought it was a shape. A shape that conveniently fits into buns.

As above, even some of the less enlightened people on here should comprehend this. Clearly not.

I've never tried booze-free beer, but after reading this thread I'm keen to give it a go now. I find just a sniff of alcohol gives me a hangover, but I quite like a shandy now and again.

I never had a sister sadly...

if you want to drink beer, drink beer. If you want to drink notbeer, drink lemonade or cola or Irn Bru or tea or coffee or, god forbid, water.

I've yet to find an alcohol-free (or low-alcohol) beer that actually tastes remotely like beer.

The nearest I've found is Clausthaler (or something), which vaguely resembles German style bier. Chill it hard enough & it might just taste like bier.

Drinking non-alcoholic beer is like muffing your sister………..
it tastes the same, but there’s just something not right about it...

Erdinger Alcohol free Weissbier is pretty good. They market it at all the MTB races and in the mags here in Germany as a iso- or hypo- tonic fitness drink!
Full version is sold, naturally, as post ride recovery version.

Carling C2 ?.

S.

You need that Kamikaze lager

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Results of extensive research. In my order of preference:

Erdinger
Cobra
Bravia/Becks/Bitberger
Clausthaler
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Kaliber (drink only mixed with lemonade as it's horrible)

All of them are nicer when very well chilled.

Why alcohol free? Maybe you're driving, maybe you have had a 'bad reaction' to alcohol, maybe you like the taste of beer without the downsides? Just maybe, you need to drink a 'mans drink' to avoid some of the ridiculous luddite comments seen above...? 🙂

Each to their own.

My pal told me he is nailing a couple of twins. I asked him how he could tell them apart.

He says the bloke has a moustache!

Alcohol free beer is bad, mmmkay? It still gives you a hangover too strangely.

my mate is trying to convince me to try erdinger alcohol free, but the problem is that even when i used to drink i never liked beer/lager (i just used to drink until i couldn't walk or speak mostly)... so i stick with a good quality ginger beer, such as bunderberg or fentiman's...

and as for veggie meat substitutes, well... if you don't want to eat them, don't. and don't apply your own worldview to everyone else either; some of us are happy to eat stuff that is somewhat "meatlike" but that hasn't ever had a face...

I wish the Spitfire I had last night after cycling was alcohol free. All 5 pints of it. And the 2 glasses of some thing clear as well.

It's just pointless!! beer with no alcohol 😯

It's just pointless!! beer with no alcohol

No - it's not beer, it's pop

I second the advice above about not mixing it with actual beer. The Becks is nice if you drink it on its own, but if you have it after a normal one it tastes horrible.

If I'm driving & unable to have a drink with alcohol in it then I stick to coke(not the stuff that you snort) or orange juice.Mainly for two reasons;
1)I've yet to find a nice tasting one.
2)Can't see the point in paying beer prices for brown water

It still gives you a hangover too strangely.

As said elsewhere Bravia is quite nice. The biggest problem I find with 0% alcohol beers is that they lack bite. Some of the low alcohol ones are pretty good though.
There's a low alcohol badger ale that's ok.
Also as mentioned a few times mixing with full strength beers makes the alcohol free beers taste watery and crap.

What is the point of alcohol free beer? Do you people not drive or are you just alcoholics?

If I'm driving & unable to have a drink with alcohol in it then I stick to coke(not the stuff that you snort) or orange juice.Mainly for two reasons;
1)I've yet to find a nice tasting one.
2)Can't see the point in paying beer prices for brown water

In my experience a pint of orange juice costs as much as a pint of beer round here! Also - if I drink coke I end up staying up for a stupidly long time after getting home. I've yet to find a nice tasting one too though