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Have a look at cloudwater
You won’t find them in the supermarket but some of the more discerning bottle shops will have them and they do mail order (or same day delivery if your in Manchester or bits of london)
These two are low alcohol but still have the hop flavours of much stronger beer (rather than a lot of low alcohol stuff which is just a bit watery
Small pale 2.5%
https://shop.cloudwaterbrew.co/products/small-pale-1
Hoppy little lager 3%
https://shop.cloudwaterbrew.co/products/hoppy-little-lager-6-pack
They also do hopped sodas which are a nice alternative to low alcohol beer which manage the impressive act of Being a flavoured soft drink and not being to sweet.
https://shop.cloudwaterbrew.co/collections/soda
On the back of this thread and striking a chord that I'm trying to cut back, certainly for a period, I bought several types of non and low alcohol beers last night, not impressed with Peroni, but Ghost Ship is passable - ish, still have Nanny State, Punk AF to try yet. Perhaps try and seek out the breweries that do 2.5%, at least they have some taste.
Recent release from Shipyard - Low Tide 0.5 - tropical fruity taste - very nice 😛 May even be better than the knats pee Bud Light I currently use to make my DIPAs go further 😉
Weak but still taste good........
Saltaire Blonde 4%
Coniston Brewing Co Bluebird Bitter 3.6%
Salopian Oracle 4%
Bradfield Brewery Farmers Gold 4%
Ossett Brewery Yorkshire Blonde 3.9%
Ilkley Brewery Blonde 3.9%
Bevertown Neck Oil 4.3%
Vocation Heart and Soul 4.4%
Just got a case yesterday of Small Beer lager, which is 2.1%, First taste seems very pleasant.
Saltaire Blonde 4%
Coniston Brewing Co Bluebird Bitter 3.6%
Salopian Oracle 4%
Bradfield Brewery Farmers Gold 4%
Ossett Brewery Yorkshire Blonde 3.9%
Ilkley Brewery Blonde 3.9%
Bevertown Neck Oil 4.3%
Vocation Heart and Soul 4.4%
Funny how times have changed... those would've been considered standard strength in the past.
Re peroni af being crap
...it is I agree but my local pub which is also the local Italian serves birra moretti AF.
It's really rather good.
Perlenbacher 0.0 from Aldi for no booze
Bud light for little booze.
Weak but still taste good……..
Saltaire Blonde 4%
Coniston Brewing Co Bluebird Bitter 3.6%
Salopian Oracle 4%
Bradfield Brewery Farmers Gold 4%
Ossett Brewery Yorkshire Blonde 3.9%
Ilkley Brewery Blonde 3.9%
Bevertown Neck Oil 4.3%
Vocation Heart and Soul 4.4%
None of those are in any way weak 🙂
Under 4 might be considered a light beer but over is standard strength.
Coors "light" is over 4% Be as well on Tenants lager.
Have a look at cloudwater
You won’t find them in the supermarket but some of the more discerning bottle shops will have them and they do mail order (or same day delivery if your in Manchester or bits of london)
These two are low alcohol but still have the hop flavours of much stronger beer (rather than a lot of low alcohol stuff which is just a bit watery
Small pale 2.5%
Small Pale
I was about to say Cloudwater - tried the Small Pale for the first time last night and it's very close to the normal pale ale in flavour (they're all very nice and easy drinking). They also deliver anywhere in the UK for free via UPS when you spend £40 (if you're not in one of the local delivery zones)
Not difficult to spend £40 at Cloudwater. A fiver a can! And not much less for the low alcohol stuff. I'll just have to imagine how good it tastes 😂
Cheers guys. Am struggling with stuff online that's twice the price of supermarket (and the same per volume as wine FFS!)
I may try them tho if this turns out to be a longer term thing.
The infinite pale is best I've tried recently - thought their IPA was very bland. Nanny state in bottles still the champ for me, tho.
A lot of LA stuff tastes decent or even good on a first drink, but doesn't stand up to repeated visits IME. Hard to find one you'd be happy drinking on the reg.
Bud light for little booze.
It's 4.2% so still a fair bit.
Funny how times have changed… those would’ve been considered standard strength in the past.
In a traditional sense and when writing about beer yeah.
None of those are in any way weak
As weak as I usually drink and less than 5-7% the OP mooted. I find there are only a handful of easily available beers that taste of anything below 4%. I've tried loads below 4% and usually find they taste alright for the first mouthful, but by the third or fourth quite watery. There are a few exceptions I can't remember off the top of my head! But they're difficult to source in anything other than cask.
Some (not all) of my list you can get 4 for 6 quid (£1.50 a bottle) at Asda or Tesco.
find there are only a handful of easily available beers that taste of anything below 4%.
Sure. But isn't that the point of the thread? Quite a good selection of small beers and palatable 0.5% choices so far.
It’s 4.2% so still a fair bit.
3.5 in the UK
Going on hols to Spain tomorrow so that should help my 7-8% double IPA habit as there'll be nothing but 4% Spanish piss. As long as I can stay off the wine 🙂
This place has about 60 to choose from: https://www.craftyaf.co.uk and they did offer a 10% off coupon for STW users back in May. I can see if they're keen to do it again. They do a nice couple of mixed cases - Fruity/Hoppy/Light - though unfortunately no dark. They do do some dark AF beers though...
I've started trying to do nothing in the week and then just continue my blaze through the world's 8 percenters at the weekends... but there's only so many cans of plain tonic you can endure...
Quite a good selection of small beers and palatable 0.5% choices so far.
Hmmmm when there that low IMO you're not really drinking beer anymore, a substitute/shandy. Each to their own I'm not saying you can't!
Speaking of Spanish piss Mahou Green and Red (the 5.5% red is best) used to be surprisingly drinkable for mainstream bottled beers!