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Non-alcoholic beer sales are close to $40B/year globally and going up. Generally speaking, the flavor of non-alcoholic beer pales in comparison to the real thin

Non-alcoholic beer sales are close to $40B/year globally and going up. Generally speaking, the flavor of non-alcoholic beer pales in comparison to the real thing. Then there's also the market for wine and spirits.

2024throwaway 2y ago
There are some new, very good, NA beers on the market these days. Untitled Art and Athletic are two brands that are doing great work.
- ahahahahah 2y ago
  Yes, those both make some good NA beers. I wouldn't categorize them as good beers, but they are drinkable.
- alamortsubite 2y ago
  Yes, those are great for NA beers (De Halve Maan's Brugse Sportzot is better). Unfortunately, they're mediocre among normal beers.
- cpfohl 2y ago
  The Athletic seasonals are way better than their "always available." And the Free Wave is better than the Run Wild for the always available beers. They had an Irish Stout (Emerald Coast) that was indistinguishable. I could have blind taste tested them. There's some fantastic single-hop beers too. I couldn't get into the Untitled Art. Just too sweet.
ravenstine 2y ago
> Generally speaking, the flavor of non-alcoholic beer pales in comparison to the real thing. Ehhh... that's a bit of an overstatement, though I mostly agree. I just happened to be doing a crapload of bar hopping this last month and got into trying different non-alcoholic beers because they're way more prevalent than they used to be. They're certainly a lot better than the nonalcoholic beers of yore. And it's also obvious that you're not drinking a traditional beer. Undoubtedly, it has to do with the lack of ethanol present, but I can't help but think it's got to do with the process of producing them. Nonalcoholic beers, from what I've noticed, are usually much less foamy than alcoholic beer. I will generally still drink alcoholic beer since I don't seem to have alcoholism in me, but I think it's great that people are being given options. When I was younger, I really hated it when people would pressure me to drink or act like I'm an alien for not wanting to drink, and nonalcoholic beer is inconspicuous enough that people can drink socially without the peculiar attitude. Although that attitude seems to have largely gone away anyway.
- postcynical 2y ago
  There's this Danish startup that claims they can put the missing flavour back into the beer using their enzymes: https://evodiabio.com/yops/ https://evodiabio.com/yops/ https://science.ku.dk/english/press/news/2022/researchers-make-non-alcoholic-beer-taste-like-regular-beer/ https://science.ku.dk/english/press/news/2022/researchers-ma...
triceratops 2y ago
Why drink grain juice when you could drink fruit juice?

2024throwaway 2y ago

There are some new, very good, NA beers on the market these days. Untitled Art and Athletic are two brands that are doing great work.

ahahahahah 2y ago
Yes, those both make some good NA beers. I wouldn't categorize them as good beers, but they are drinkable.
alamortsubite 2y ago
Yes, those are great for NA beers (De Halve Maan's Brugse Sportzot is better). Unfortunately, they're mediocre among normal beers.
cpfohl 2y ago
The Athletic seasonals are way better than their "always available." And the Free Wave is better than the Run Wild for the always available beers. They had an Irish Stout (Emerald Coast) that was indistinguishable. I could have blind taste tested them. There's some fantastic single-hop beers too. I couldn't get into the Untitled Art. Just too sweet.

ravenstine 2y ago

> Generally speaking, the flavor of non-alcoholic beer pales in comparison to the real thing. Ehhh... that's a bit of an overstatement, though I mostly agree. I just happened to be doing a crapload of bar hopping this last month and got into trying different non-alcoholic beers because they're way more prevalent than they used to be. They're certainly a lot better than the nonalcoholic beers of yore. And it's also obvious that you're not drinking a traditional beer. Undoubtedly, it has to do with the lack of ethanol present, but I can't help but think it's got to do with the process of producing them. Nonalcoholic beers, from what I've noticed, are usually much less foamy than alcoholic beer. I will generally still drink alcoholic beer since I don't seem to have alcoholism in me, but I think it's great that people are being given options. When I was younger, I really hated it when people would pressure me to drink or act like I'm an alien for not wanting to drink, and nonalcoholic beer is inconspicuous enough that people can drink socially without the peculiar attitude. Although that attitude seems to have largely gone away anyway.

postcynical 2y ago
There's this Danish startup that claims they can put the missing flavour back into the beer using their enzymes: https://evodiabio.com/yops/ https://evodiabio.com/yops/ https://science.ku.dk/english/press/news/2022/researchers-make-non-alcoholic-beer-taste-like-regular-beer/ https://science.ku.dk/english/press/news/2022/researchers-ma...

triceratops 2y ago

Why drink grain juice when you could drink fruit juice?