Alcohol free beer

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  1. joh

    john coucom Well-Known Member

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    does anyone know why it’s more expensive than normal beer just paid £3.40 for a pint
     
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    If it's alcohol free craft beer, they use loads more hops to mask the lack of alcohol. If it's mass-produced crap, you've been stung!
     
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    Just get some water mate and enjoy the look of disgust on the barman/woman's face.
    £0.00
     
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    Heineken. Would have ordered water if I known how much it was a pint
     
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    It's a more expensive process, as first you make beer, then you have to spend time taking out the alcohol (which is usually done by keeping it at a temperature that lets the alcohol evaporate, but leaves the rest in as well as possible).
     
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    Most of it tastes like summat from inside an iron to me
     
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    john coucom Well-Known Member

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    It wasn’t to bad for a lager didn’t seem as gassy as normal lager
     
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    Erdinger alcohol free is class, as are a lot of the other German ones. Most of the big ones taste like *****
     
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    Brewdog Nanny State is pretty decent
     
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    Bitburger Drive is also a good non alcohol drink.
     
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    In that same direction: Punk AF is pretty decent too. Erdinger is normally my go-to for alcohol free beer. Not a fan of alcohol free lagers. The stronger taste of the other ones hide the lack of alcohol better than a lager can.
     
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    How much is the duty they’re not paying though. 10%?
     
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    Lovely. £1 30 a bottle at Sainsbury's
    Bavaria is Ok as well
     
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    I'm as mystified as you mate, pubs whinge they are killed by the duty then charge more for alcohol free beer which can't attract the same rate of duty. I try and do a couple of months a year off the sauce and it really annoys me
     
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    Just to clarify a couple of things on this one.

    The best alcohol free beers aren't de-alcoholised. Meaning they're brewed to their abv, rather than brewed to the original abv before having the alcohol taken away. You can achieve this by using a 'Lazy Yeast' which converts the sugars much slower meaning you can package at 0.5%. Ones worth trying, including those already mentioned, are Thornbridge Big Easy, BrewDog Punk AF, BrewDog Nanny State, Adnams Ghost Ship, Big Drop Milk Stout, Big Drop Pale, Big Drop Sour, Erdinger Weisse, Stiegl 0% and then lower abv beers from a little producer called Small Beer that produce a range under 2.8%.

    What the breweries save on duty they invest in to the process and the ingredients. That's not the case for Heineken 0%, however if you had it on draught then you're paying for the system they use to pour it. Nobody wants kegs with 50 plus pints in so they have a system called 'Blade' which is 14 pint containers.

    The Germans create the best 0% beers in general but we're catching up big time. Erdinger sponsor marathons in Germany with their Weisse beer as the Isotones are great for the body - so you get handed one as you cross the finishing line.
     
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    Ghost Ship is the best one I've tried. Very close to the real thing.
     
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    Yeah, I'd been thinking much the same as all that myself.! :D
     
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    It's superb. In my top three out there for sure.
     
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    Whoa, admin can you please delete this thread, no place for this heresy on this board. Alcohol bloody free indeed.
     
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    Wouldn’t touch the stuff normally at a funeral and I can’t drink
     
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