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Non alcoholic beer & wine does exist.
by eli 13y ago
Non alcoholic beer & wine does exist.
- charlysisto 13y agoYes it's called grape juice : the wine you drink because the taste is 'divine' doesn't exist in a non alcoholic form. Don't know about beer though
- dagw 13y agoThe best non-alcoholic beers are, relatively speaking, better than non-alcoholic wine, but the selection is basically limited to fairly mundane German style lagers and even the best ones (Jever is probably the best I've tasted) are inferior to even most mass-produced lager.
- hessenwolf 13y agoClausthaller (not the canned), Paulaner Helles and Hefe-Weiß, Erdinger Weiß, Lämmbrau, and Hacker Pschorr Helles are all very tasty tipples. Spaten Helles is wretched, and Löwenbrau Helles is surprisingly not too terrible, given the regular stuff is garbage.
- tripzilch 13y agoThe non-alcoholic Erdinger Weissbier is probably the best non-alcoholic beer I've tasted. You need to get "into" it a little before you realize it actually does taste like beer, except without the alcohol, and how much part of the flavour alcohol actually is (even with the relatively low 5% ABV that most beers are). Also, and this may differ per regulations where you are, but many "non-alcoholic" beers do in fact contain up to 0.5% alcohol (including the Erdinger Weizener). So you'd have to drink 10 of them to feel the buzz of one normal beer, but I'd expect by that time you'd be feeling something else, over the buzz from a single beer :-P
- hessenwolf 13y agoApparently, 0.5% is slightly less than orange juice. I'd confirm it with a link, but I am on the work machine.
- eli 13y agoI've had extremely low alcohol wine that tastes pretty close to every other glass of wine I've had. (But then I'm someone who thinks most wine tastes the same.)
- dagw 13y agoFlavor-wise they range from not very good to absolutely terrible, kind of defeating the whole purpose. Even the very best non-alcoholic wines are only marginally better than the very worst alcoholic wines.
- threeseed 13y agoIt's also not available at every bar/restaurant you go to. Shame though. If governments were serious about combating the abuse of alcohol they should make it mandatory (including on tap).