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#75 Re: Alcohol free booze...
January 11, 2019, 07:03:37 pm
Tesco have a good range of low/no alcohol beers at the moment for dry January-ers

I quite like the Budweiser one, light and refreshing if a bit too sweet, but most importantly it doesn't have that chemically aftertaste alot of the other low alcohol beers have

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#76 Re: Alcohol free booze...
January 11, 2019, 07:11:29 pm
I'm currently championing the Patronus Weissbier from Lidl. 69p a bottle, and fair decent.

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#77 Re: Alcohol free booze...
January 11, 2019, 07:46:19 pm
Was in Austria recently and tried Stiegl, Null Comma Josef, Schlossgold and a few others. Stiegl was my favorite but the others were fairly palatable too.

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#78 Re: Alcohol free booze...
January 11, 2019, 07:51:41 pm
Can’t stand the Bud I’m afraid. Threw it away!

Tesco also has 0.5% speckled hen. Which ain’t perfect but is decent for an ale.

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#79 Re: Alcohol free booze...
January 13, 2019, 12:52:39 pm
Just been to tesco’s - most things £1 bit cans of zero Bud for 50p each.....

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#80 Re: Alcohol free booze...
January 13, 2019, 04:37:22 pm
I got a few bottles of Erdinger for £1. Had a look for Speckled Hen but my local one had none. They had Addams Ghost Ship in I think, not sure if it was 0% or 0.5%.

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#81 Re: Alcohol free booze...
January 13, 2019, 04:44:53 pm
I got a few bottles of Erdinger for £1. Had a look for Speckled Hen but my local one had none. They had Addams Ghost Ship in I think, not sure if it was 0% or 0.5%.

GS is a 0.5 I think. I’ve had some and it’s alright - though having really liked Addams beers I was a bit disappointed. Hoppy IPA lovers will think it’s alright. I’m more of a wherry fan :)

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#82 Re: Alcohol free booze...
March 19, 2019, 09:54:05 pm
Just tucking into some Peroni Liberia 0.0%. Quite nice.

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#83 Re: Alcohol free booze...
March 19, 2019, 10:06:39 pm
If sour beers are to your liking, BrewDog Raspberry Blitz is worth a go.

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#84 Re: Alcohol free booze...
May 26, 2019, 07:12:39 pm
Enjoying Brooklyn Special Effects at the moment. Adnams Ghost ship too.

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#85 Re: Alcohol free booze...
May 26, 2019, 08:34:01 pm
Enjoying Brooklyn Special Effects at the moment. Adnams Ghost ship too.

Just tucking into a Brooklyn now - new arrival at Tesco. Decent 👍

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#86 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 15, 2019, 08:26:14 pm
Anyone else tried Punk AF? Newish Brew Dog one. A lot more subtle than Nanny State! Maybe too subtle? Very drinkable though.

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#87 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 15, 2019, 09:45:41 pm
Anyone else tried Punk AF? Newish Brew Dog one. A lot more subtle than Nanny State! Maybe too subtle? Very drinkable though.

Not seen that one yet, nanny state is great so will keep an eye out. Where can you get it?

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#88 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 15, 2019, 09:56:09 pm
Pretty sure it was Morrison’s where I saw it. Not tried it yet. The Open Gate (Guinness) Pure Brew lager is my go to at the moment- nice clean taste

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#89 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 15, 2019, 10:13:02 pm
I got it in Sainsbury’s today, but haven’t seen it in all of them.

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#90 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 16, 2019, 05:51:00 pm
Thumbs up for punk AF. Free Damm ok too.

Not much choice up where i live.

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#91 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 16, 2019, 06:12:49 pm
Cobra Zero.

Euch. Better than water with a poppodom but not much....

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#92 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 16, 2019, 06:28:07 pm
Think it's been tipped on here before but I got some Infinite Session Pale from Tescos, top of the list for me that.

As for the mainstream AF lagers, all pretty grim, but the Free Damm (is that the one in the blue can) is OK.

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#93 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 16, 2019, 07:30:02 pm

As for the mainstream AF lagers, all pretty grim, but the Free Damm (is that the one in the blue can) is OK.

Yeah I think Free Damm is alright. I'm quite partial to the Bavaria 0% as a cheap and cheerful option, much better than heineken, becks, budweiser etc which are a bit grim IMO.

Brooklyn special effects is my favorite at the moment.

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#94 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 16, 2019, 08:02:24 pm
Just tried Big Drop Brewing 0.5 Milk Stout.
Tastes pretty much like as you’d expect a Stout to taste. I quite liked it.

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#95 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 16, 2019, 08:23:36 pm
Just tried Big Drop Brewing 0.5 Milk Stout.
Tastes pretty much like as you’d expect a Stout to taste. I quite liked it.

It’s one of my favourites.

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#96 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 16, 2019, 09:21:39 pm
The Big Drop stout is by far the best alcohol free beer I've tried. I read somewhere it has actually won awards against full strength stouts. Shame as I'm not a massive stout fan- it's a cold lager I usually crave and there still isn't one that has really tickled my fancy, I'll have to try the Brooklyn Special effect and report back

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#97 Re: Alcohol free booze...
July 29, 2019, 08:45:20 pm
Quick update as I've been trying a few new ones.

Agree about Brewdog Punk AF - more subtle / not as hoppy as Nanny State so not as good IMO

Got the Infinite Session IPA last week, absolutely amazed by it. I genuinely think you could blind test that with other alcoholic IPAs and you'd be hard pushed to pick it out.

Had the Brooklyn Special Effects this evening. Quite nice, good hop level but a bit to sickly / caramel-y on the finish for me.

My rankings would be:

1. Infinite Session IPA
2. Brewdog Nanny State
3. Infinite Session Pale
4 = Brooklyn Special Effects
4 = Brewdog Punk AF
6. Damm 0%

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#98 Re: Alcohol free booze...
August 05, 2019, 11:30:22 am
Update - picked up a can of Bad Co. Brewing AF beer yesterday, which I'll update on once I've given it a crack.


However, it's the first can I've seen with the (as you see on other beers) unit count on it. It is (like Nanny State, Infinite Session etc) a "0.5%" AF beer on the label, but listed as 0.56 units.


So my question is - is "alcohol free" beer like this actually alcohol free?


If I'm reading it right, if I had 4 cans of that stuff (and presumably the Brewdog / Infinite Session stuff), it'd be the equivalent of a pint of normal ale. Is that right?


I'm aware the mainstream lagers' 0% (Heineken, Budweiser, the Damm one) are all 0.0% so sure they're all completely non-booze. Shame they all taste terrible compared to the 0.5% I would much prefer.


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#99 Re: Alcohol free booze...
August 05, 2019, 11:50:47 am
Update - picked up a can of Bad Co. Brewing AF beer yesterday, which I'll update on once I've given it a crack.


However, it's the first can I've seen with the (as you see on other beers) unit count on it. It is (like Nanny State, Infinite Session etc) a "0.5%" AF beer on the label, but listed as 0.56 units.

What's the alcohol percentage on the the beer?  0.56 units doesn't make sense on 0.5% alcohol.   

1 unit is 10ml of alcohol so 250ml of 4% beer is 1 unit.  A pint of 4% (i.e. not too strong) is just over 2 units, 5% is 2.5 units. 

0.5% 'alcohol free' is .17 units for a 330ml can/bottle, 0.25 for 500ml.  So 4 large bottler (500ml) would be equivalent of half a pint. 8 bottles for 1 pint - I think the argument is that realistically you body should process the alcohol faster than you drink it at 0.5% so functionally its pretty much alcohol free.

 

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