I liked Leffe 0.0% when I tried it a few weeks back.

Have a look on drydrinker.com…huge selection there

I particularly like the Kaineken smoked porter

My favourite is Big Drop Paradiso Citra IPA

Has anyone found a decent alcohol free ‘traditional’ bitter/brown beer? There’s quite a few decent AF lagers and happy IPA type ones, but all the ones I’ve tried in a more traditional style have not been great at all, they were really sweet (basically testing like unfermented wort).

This was about a year ago though and times move on, so anyone found anything?

Big Drop make some nice ones.

They do AF and gluten free which can be handy for coeliac.

The other AF GF one I’ve found regularly in supermarkets is Estrella free dam, likable lager.

Cross post – same idea

Butcombe’s Goram IPA Zero is my new favourite, though it’s only available direct or through one or two places online.

I like Brooklyn Special Effects.

Only really found decent lagers so far. Bitters and the like don’t seem to work AF.

Shipyard low tide American pale ale is nice (Morrisons £1.75)

Brewdog do a mixed box of their AFs. I like the Elvis Juice best but they are all nice.

Guinness 0.0 is my go to.

I have Infinite Session on a monthly delivery, mixed case with lager, pale Ale and another. I also love Impossibrew, though quite pricey.

Jaipur Alcohol Free IPA 12 x 330ml bottles

At a gig last night and 4 ‘pints’ of Guinness 0.0. A first for me an, oh my – that’s good.

But…….and it must be psychological……at the end of the night I was questioning myself if I was fit to drive. I swear my brain thought I’d had a few and ‘thought’ my reactions were impaired- a sort of Pavlovian response to 35 years of 4 pints having that impact. It was definitely the 0.0 as I watched it being opened and poured.

Is this a known thing?

edit – read that back. It sounds like I know what it’s like to drive on 4 pints! For the avoidance of doubt, that’s not what I meant!

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Duggan
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This might be a stupid question but is there any such thing as super-low abv beers? i.e. like 2 or 2.5 or 3%? I see lots of AF beers and lots of strong/standard ones but not much in-between.

yes, have a google at ‘Small Beer’

https://theoriginalsmallbeer.com/

I have it in the fridge at all times and it’s my go to if I want an alternative to the AF stuff.

Another fan of the Guinness 0%
best other ones I’ve tried is the aldi Pilsner or lucky Saint lager

Something you can already see on this thread is – one persons nice AF beer is another persons poison. Some of the worst (to me) AF beers I’ve had have been recommendations on threads like this. It seems one of the hardest things to take on someone else’s reccomendation for some reason.

Guiness Zero seems to be the outlier, seems to be the most universally agreed on good AF beer

Generally I think if you need to exclude something from your diet its better to go into new territory than have alternative versions of your favourites as you’re more attuned to the differences with things you’re familiar with. So perhaps try alcohol free versions of the kinds of beers you don’t normally drink (or alcohol free versions of drinks you don’t normally drink like cider maybe).

but sometimes leads to devastating, for others olfactory sensitivity, trouser trumpets.

I can’t see any down sides

At a gig last night and 4 ‘pints’ of Guinness 0.0. A first for me an, oh my – that’s good.

But…….and it must be psychological……at the end of the night I was questioning myself if I was fit to drive.

I had the same thoughts at wake a few weeks back where I was designated driver. I think when I’ve had AF beers in pubs in the past the selection has tended to  been quite light, quite small bottled AF beers like Becks. I think becuase the Guiness is so weighty and sold in proper pints sized portions you feel very ‘full’ after a few of them in a way that a night in a pub drinking beer usually feels – and it is odd in that while you’re not drunk you do ‘feel’ in every other sense like you’ve been drinking

Cloudwater, brewed in Manchester, delicious, but I’ve only had it on draught, can’t speak for cans or bottles.

Corona 0.0% I quite like as well.

Had this too and was surprised it was actually an ok drink

I like a Ghost Ship, and the AF Doom Bar isn’t bad.

Not strictly for this thread, but if you’re a cider drinker on a quest for an AF stick that doesn’t just taste like overly sweet apple juice, Hogan’s High Sobriety is really nice. It’s still not exactly dry, but way better than anything else I’ve tried.

On the “phantom” alcohol sensation it could also be your blood sugar/carbs.

AIUI many of the AF beers have a notably higher sugar and carb content as the sugar hasn’t converted to alcohol.

As for proper AF bitters someone asked about it does seem (Guiness aside) that the market is dominated by pales and lagers.  Even Ghost Ship mentioned above has more of a pale ale feel.