Hmmmm, not sure about this!!!

[SaintK]

Have only ever found one or two alcohol free beers to be drinkable

The global drinks company Diageo is to further raise the stakes in the burgeoning low- and no-alcohol drinks sector next week by launching a booze-free version of Guinness in Britain and Ireland.
Guinness 0.0 goes on sale in 4-440ml can packs in off-licences, and Waitrose and Morrisons supermarkets from Monday, before being rolled out to other retailers. But pubgoers will have to wait until next spring to enjoy the new version of the popular Irish stout on draft, while it will be launched in other parts of the world later in 2021.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/o ... -ireland

[Chrysoprase]

To be fair, it can't make the stuff taste any worse.

[Sandstorm]

I've had 23 bottles of Heineken 0% in my garage since 4 April. Can't give 'em away.

[dkm57]

To be fair, it can't make the stuff taste any worse.

This, in my late teens if I was absolutely hammered in the absence of anything else I might have tried some as an emetic, but then I mercifully wouldn't remember.

[Globus]

Here's one for you SaintK.

https://luckysaint.co/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_s ... OcQAvD_BwE

[Sandstorm]

To be fair, it can't make the stuff taste any worse.

This, in my late teens if I was absolutely hammered in the absence of anything else I might have tried some as an emetic, but then I mercifully wouldn't remember.

Not many Irish on here, but the Swarm will hear you from Dublin and be over to set you straight!

[SaintK]

Here's one for you SaintK.

https://luckysaint.co/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_s ... OcQAvD_BwE

Thanks, not come across that one before.......good name.

[dkm57]

To be fair, it can't make the stuff taste any worse.

This, in my late teens if I was absolutely hammered in the absence of anything else I might have tried some as an emetic, but then I mercifully wouldn't remember.

Not many Irish on here, but the Swarm will hear you from Dublin and be over to set you straight!

Cool, they can stop off at the Sulwath Brewery in Castle Douglas on the way and pick up some Black Galloway, then at least we'll have a decent stout.

cat's arse well and truly held to the fire

[SaintK]

Have only ever found one or two alcohol free beers to be drinkable

The global drinks company Diageo is to further raise the stakes in the burgeoning low- and no-alcohol drinks sector next week by launching a booze-free version of Guinness in Britain and Ireland.
Guinness 0.0 goes on sale in 4-440ml can packs in off-licences, and Waitrose and Morrisons supermarkets from Monday, before being rolled out to other retailers. But pubgoers will have to wait until next spring to enjoy the new version of the popular Irish stout on draft, while it will be launched in other parts of the world later in 2021.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/o ... -ireland

This is turning out well then?

The drinks group Diageo is recalling all of its newly launched non-alcoholic stout because of “microbiological contamination”, only two weeks after it was launched.
It warned that cans of the new Guinness 0.0 drink, which took four years to develop, may be “unsafe to consume” and advised people who had purchased the alcohol-free beer to dispose of it or return it to where it was bought.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... on-fears

[Paddington Bear]

Never understood the point of non-alcoholic beer. If I'm not drinking I'm fine with water.

[Biffer]

There's a wide variation of good and bad. They all used to be bloody awful but in the last year or so there have been a lot more decent ones - seems to me that some brewers are putting a bit of care and attention into developing them now (although some are just throwing crap out without doing that).

Good ones I've had recently -

Erdinger alcohol free
Infinite Session American Pale Ale
Infinite Session Pilsner

[tabascoboy]

Save your money, drink your own piss, no difference really.

[Biffer]

Save your money, drink your own piss, no difference really.

To be fair, that's also true of regular Fosters.

It used to be the case for 0% beers but things are changing. Mind you for things like Becks Blue or San Miguel 0% I agree with you completely. Have yet to try the Peroni alcohol free - heard some good reports, some bad.

[Slick]

There's a wide variation of good and bad. They all used to be bloody awful but in the last year or so there have been a lot more decent ones - seems to me that some brewers are putting a bit of care and attention into developing them now (although some are just throwing crap out without doing that).

Good ones I've had recently -

Erdinger alcohol free
Infinite Session American Pale Ale
Infinite Session Pilsner

Agree, I'm off the booze for a while and have been trying quite a few. The German ones in particular can be really good but agree that a lot of the big names just throw out shite.

The best I've found so far is No1 from the Weldebrau, althought the one Globby mentioned earlier, Lucky Saint, isn't bad at all.

Funnily enough I've just ordered a mixed case of 24 from a website this morning so will report back.

Paddington - I certainly don't drink them as I would normal beer or wine and it's mostly water if not drinking, but watching sport or sitting at a BBQ with mates I find it really nice, and helpful, to have a couple. There are some genuinely good ones out there.

[boere wors]

Some non alcoholic beers are really good, mainly those from Spain or Germany. Other are disgusting, mainly because they taste too sweet. Peroni is one of them, tastes strange, lots of flavors in it. Beck's blue one of those sweet ones for example

[Sandstorm]

Some non alcoholic beers are really good,

To quote the thread title: "Hmmmm, not sure about this!!!"

My boss has gout and therefore whenever we hit the pubs, he orders 0% beer for the rest of the team when we are there "to have a work day-time meeting"

Anyway I've tried at least a dozen different ones from all over and in my experience they are all "just about drinkable/bearable"

[GogLais]

Haven't been on the low-alcohol stuff for a while but St Peter's Without was ok.

[tcc_dc]

I've had 23 bottles of Heineken 0% in my garage since 4 April. Can't give 'em away.

My wife loves the stuff...and I do not complain as that means she drives when we go out..

Want to see something more tragic from Guinness ....

[Biffer]

I've had 23 bottles of Heineken 0% in my garage since 4 April. Can't give 'em away.

My wife loves the stuff...and I do not complain as that means she drives when we go out..

Want to see something more tragic from Guinness ....

Someone needs fucking shot for that. Gingerbread Guinness. FFS.

[Northern Lights]

Never understood the point of non-alcoholic beer. If I'm not drinking I'm fine with water.

Yep, same for me.

[Tichtheid]

Ginger beer with a dash of lime cordial, ice.

[SaintK]

Ginger beer with a wedge of lime, ice and a decent slug of gin

Fixed. I know, not alcohol free, but one of my favourite summer drinks

[Northern Lights]

Ginger beer with a dash of lime cordial, ice.

Add angostura bitters and that's a John Panton for the golfers out there

[Kawazaki]

Never understood the point of non-alcoholic beer. If I'm not drinking I'm fine with water.

I once served non-alcoholic beer to a table of young Colts at a rugby club dinner. They thought it was normal lager of course. They all got 'drunk'.

There's a similar trick you can do with gin and tonic. Serve the first one with a genuine shot of gin then on subsequent refills just rub some gin around the rim of the glass and serve just the tonic. The person drinking the G&T won't know the difference and will get merrily sloshed in their usual way without knowing the difference.

Try it out.

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Never understood the point of non-alcoholic beer. If I'm not drinking I'm fine with water.

Quite, although I am quite partial to tonic water when not drinking alcohol.

When beer goes below about 3.5% they largely run out of flavour. below 3% and I find them actively unpleasant.

[Uncle fester]

To be fair, it can't make the stuff taste any worse.

This, in my late teens if I was absolutely hammered in the absence of anything else I might have tried some as an emetic, but then I mercifully wouldn't remember.

Not many Irish on here, but the Swarm will hear you from Dublin and be over to set you straight!

I used to work there. Interesting place.

[Sandstorm]

Never understood the point of non-alcoholic beer. If I'm not drinking I'm fine with water.

I once served non-alcoholic beer to a table of young Colts at a rugby club dinner. They thought it was normal lager of course. They all got 'drunk'.

There's a similar trick you can do with gin and tonic. Serve the first one with a genuine shot of gin then on subsequent refills just rub some gin around the rim of the glass and serve just the tonic. The person drinking the G&T won't know the difference and will get merrily sloshed in their usual way without knowing the difference.

Try it out.

Only women can’t tell the difference between G&T and just tonic.

[Kawazaki]

Never understood the point of non-alcoholic beer. If I'm not drinking I'm fine with water.

I once served non-alcoholic beer to a table of young Colts at a rugby club dinner. They thought it was normal lager of course. They all got 'drunk'.

There's a similar trick you can do with gin and tonic. Serve the first one with a genuine shot of gin then on subsequent refills just rub some gin around the rim of the glass and serve just the tonic. The person drinking the G&T won't know the difference and will get merrily sloshed in their usual way without knowing the difference.

Try it out.

Only women can’t tell the difference between G&T and just tonic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3035442.stm

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... -hangovers

[Sandstorm]

I once served non-alcoholic beer to a table of young Colts at a rugby club dinner. They thought it was normal lager of course. They all got 'drunk'.

There's a similar trick you can do with gin and tonic. Serve the first one with a genuine shot of gin then on subsequent refills just rub some gin around the rim of the glass and serve just the tonic. The person drinking the G&T won't know the difference and will get merrily sloshed in their usual way without knowing the difference.

Try it out.

Only women can’t tell the difference between G&T and just tonic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3035442.stm

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... -hangovers

Women and Kiwis

[Paddington Bear]

Never understood the point of non-alcoholic beer. If I'm not drinking I'm fine with water.

I once served non-alcoholic beer to a table of young Colts at a rugby club dinner. They thought it was normal lager of course. They all got 'drunk'.

There's a similar trick you can do with gin and tonic. Serve the first one with a genuine shot of gin then on subsequent refills just rub some gin around the rim of the glass and serve just the tonic. The person drinking the G&T won't know the difference and will get merrily sloshed in their usual way without knowing the difference.

Try it out.

Look, throwing up in the loos at a rugby club dinner as a colt is a key element in growing up. Give them the proper stuff.

[Openside]

Have only ever found one or two alcohol free beers to be drinkable

The global drinks company Diageo is to further raise the stakes in the burgeoning low- and no-alcohol drinks sector next week by launching a booze-free version of Guinness in Britain and Ireland.
Guinness 0.0 goes on sale in 4-440ml can packs in off-licences, and Waitrose and Morrisons supermarkets from Monday, before being rolled out to other retailers. But pubgoers will have to wait until next spring to enjoy the new version of the popular Irish stout on draft, while it will be launched in other parts of the world later in 2021.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/o ... -ireland

Not no alcohol but low alcohol, has anyone had Little Swine from the Hogs back Brewery its delicious.

[Slick]

Drinking a genuinely good one tonight, best I’ve had.

Skippers from Insel-Braurei- name needs work

[mat the expat]

A decent Low/Zero alcohol craft beer is excellent - drinking water/soft drinks over a long session sucks balls