Best alcohol free lagers or ales.

[securespark]

Another one for zero Guinness.

As for St Peter's Without, there are a few versions. The dark one I like, but you have to like dark beers to start with, obviously.

The blue one is the dark beer. The others are much lighter.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Guinness 0% tastes nice, like a grown-up drink. But paying £5 a can in the pub seems a bit much.

I also find I get a build-up of dryness in my throat from drinking it, like there's some additives in there to replace the alcohol.

Sadly the breweries are in a unique position of not having to list their ingredients - unlike any other food or drink product.

 

[morqthana]

Another one for zero Guinness.

As for St Peter's Without, there are a few versions. The dark one I like, but you have to like dark beers to start with, obviously.

I think it was the Original we tried.

And I do like dark beers.

The blue one is the dark beer. The others are much lighter.

Generally I find AF lagers and pale ales more successful than bitters.

 

[morqthana]

Sadly the breweries are in a unique position of not having to list their ingredients - unlike any other food or drink product.

Untrue with alcohol-free beers.

 

[Dec27]

Lucky Saint is the one that makes me rough!! It’s worse than a proper sesh. I’ll stick to coke

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Thanks, never realised. That does make sense, as it's essentially the same as any other soft drink.

From the Guinness website...

Ingredients​

Water
Malted Barley
Barley
Roasted Barley
Fructose
Natural Flavourings
Hops
Yeast

So it's pretty OK stuff then. Guess the dryness is probably from the Roasted Barley, perhaps the alcohol somehow negates it normally. Or it may get denatured somehow in the de-alcoholising process. I did see a vid by Guinness about it, they make alcoholic guinness then put it through a secret process. I'm guessing it's some sort of partial freeze-drying, they get it down to a pressure where the alcohol boils out without the water, like distillation but at a lower temperature so it doesn't cook all the flavour out.

 

[securespark]

Untrue with alcohol-free beers.

I don't think they do.
Well, I didn't see mention of sugar on their bottles.

As for more beers, these are worthy of a mention...

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Well, I didn't see mention of sugar on their bottles.

The sweetness is from the malted barley. This is what the yeast eats, it pees out alcohol but some remains unfermented.

Home brew kits use added sugar. But that's not proper beer, it's beer flavoured prison hooch.

 

[morqthana]

All this talk of "meh - not very nice"...

Hands up all those who remember Kaliber.

 

[morqthana]

Thanks, never realised. That does make sense, as it's essentially the same as any other soft drink.

I like Tanquery Sevilla gin, and I was looking at a bottle of the af version, and all the ingredients they have to list as it's a soft drink.

And I'm thinking jeez - is all this crp in the alcoholic one, but nobody knows because they don't have to list ingredients in the same way?

 

[Elsa TLC]

All this talk of "meh - not very nice"...

Hands up all those who remember Kaliber.

 

[pete01]

 

[blup]

I am sure the loonies will be looking down their noses at anyone actually enjoying themselves but whats the point of drinking if your not going to go beserk.

The loonies will be thinking let’s cut VAT on pubs

 

[Elsa TLC]

Having a Peroni 0.0% apart from being £3.60 for a small bottle, it ain't that bad. Its about the best alcoholic free lager ive ever had.

However the last time Ill but it at thst price. Ill see what its like at Wetherspoons.

 

[morqthana]

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