I’ve gone on medication that makes drinking kind of problematic, but I really love beer of all kinds, IPAs, sours, etc. I like flavorful and varied beers. I’d like to try some interesting non-alcoholic options. What is your favorite non-alcoholic beer?
Another mention of Athletic, sours for me.
Agree with everyone on Athletic I like their upside dawn golden. I also like Black Butte Port which is a NA I’ve only seen at BiMart of all places. I go through a lot of the Claushaller dry hopped.
Brewdog does some really good NA beers
I hate the company for various reasons, but they do make some of the best NA beers.
Fremont Brewing Non-Alcoholic IPA. Tastes real.
Guinness 0 is surprisingly good as well.
Guinness 0 is remarkably good I have to say.
Clausthaler Dry-Hopped (the brown bottle, not the green). It actually tastes like a beer.
If they’ll ship to wherever you are, you should give Mash Gang a try. My personal favourite is a fruited west-coast IPA, but mostly I just like that they’re constantly trying new things. Since giving up alcohol, it’s the closest I’ve gotten to that feeling of trying a bunch of crazy craft beers and not knowing exactly what you’re about to get.
Athletic brewing company has a a stout…that if they billed as an ESB would be amazingly convincing.
I swear to you, I am (or I guess used to be) a BJCP certified beer judge. (former) Cicerone ii
Athletic is the best out there for NA, that I’ve seen. And that stout… I was intrigued to see how you could make beery. And you can’t. But… an ESBs flavor profile is, for all intents and purposes, a watered down (Still spritzy) dry stout.
I’ll bet there are better for hopheads. Hell, I prefer lagunitas’s NIPA offering more than athletics pale ale. So… yeah.
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I read this twice and have no idea what you said.
ESB means “extra special bitter,” which is a beer style
One that BJCP judges need to know. They also need to know a variety of stouts. BJCP stands for beer judge certification program.
And cicerone is like sommelier.
Sommelier is like wine expert but certified.
Idk about wine, but cicerone has three levels.
Level 1 is trivial and about glassware and cleanliness and beer style general knowledge.
Level 2 is a bit more intense (identifying specific problems with a slightly imperfect beer)
Level 3, to me, is wizardry. It’s like mouth-brain-beer turning completeness. Basically.
Thanks for the rundown.
Thanks! This helps. I really wish they made a decent non-alcoholic beer. I don’t drink alcohol by choice, but I love the taste of beer.
I tried a few non-alcoholic things that are local, but they are all pretty water downed tasting.
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Give mulled cider (NOT spiked) a try. Super easy to heat up a batch, fairly inexpensive (and Simply Apple works for cider if you can’t get apple cider out of season), and, to me, at least, it “feels” like something alcoholic but with zero alcohol (unless you make the spiked version).
I’ve never had a NA beer, so this is kind of a joke answer, but I actually wonder it technically counts.
Root Beer?
In the same vein- Ginger Beer. Specifically the great Jamaican brand in the yellow labeled bottles
Dr Pepper.
Peroni Nastro Azzurro 0.0 – really scratches the lager itch.
Sam Adams, Just The Haze – my fav NA IPA
Athletic Brewing Company – many offerings but Upside Dawn Golden is my favorite.I love Athletic Brewing Company. Their Oktoberfest is very good, and their Blueberry Lemon Mango sour is my favorite NA beer on the market. I also really like Best Day, especially their Kolsch.
Non-alcoholic beer has come along in leaps and bounds and there are many very drinkable beverages available now.
For the past 2 years, I’ve bought a non-alc beer Advent Calendar, which is basically a case of beer with perforated “doors” that you get a can from for the first 24 days of December and then about 4 cans for 25 December itself. Only one or two that I didn’t like enough to not drink them and several I thought were amazing.
As I live in Australia, the majority are from here. There were some from the US and Europe, though. Some that spring to mind are : Athletic, Løwlander, Vandestreek, Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing, Bravus, Big Drop.
Where did you get that from? I quit last year so when I’m in the mood just grab whatever my IGA has.
This most recent one was from Craftzero.
Ooh thanks!
You’re welcome!
So far the Athletic IPA
Solid hops hit. It’s a bit thin in the mouth feel. But the. Hops hit home.
