Why can't I add 0.0% ?

Good catch.

Since the category of non-alcoholic is defined on this site as being 1.0% ABV or less, those beers you are describing don't fit the category and need to be reported and moved. Clearly the BAs who entered them made a mistake.

@dbrauneis @Todd

 

@Todd, could an edit be added to prevent any new NA beers from being entered if they have over 1% ABV?

 

Determining style may be the biggest problem for some. I noticed in a casual browse that there are a few Radlers. IIRC they don't have a style listing on here.

 

In the US, for a beer to be legally labeled "Non-alcoholic" it must have less than 0.5% alcohol by volume. I realized that this is an international website, but I'd find it pretty difficult to believe that any of the industrialized countries' maximum alcohol content limit for a "NA" would be much higher. If anything, the current generation of such beers (like Heineken's) contain no alcohol - what in the US would be labeled "Alcohol Free".

 

In the UK a NA beer must be 0.05% ABV or less. Most of Europe says 0.5%

 

According to the UK industry site, Drinkaware:

They further note that in the UK they don't have a legal term of "Non-alcoholic":

(Their "De-acoholised beer" equals the US's "Non-alcoholic").

Thus making the use of the abbreviation "NA" in these dicussions kinda confusing, since it might mean "Non-Alcoholic" (US) or "No Alcohol" (UK).

But, either way, they're both well below your suggested limit of nothing over 1%.

 

I didn't think his original comment was suggesting an upper limit of 1.0% but rather that the existing upper limit for the style as defined on this site be enforced by not allowing the entry of a beer with more than 1.0%.

 

Yeah, I get that but a beer with a 0.9% ABV would still not be legally NA or NA or AF or DA in either the US or the UK, so if this website is going to update their catagories, why not have it conform to most of the English-speaking world's legal definitions (wait, where's Canada weigh in?)

 

I agree and think it would be excellent if you could convince the site Admin about getting that changed.

 

Have you reported these as being in the wrong category?

Sounds to me like these entries were put into the wrong category.

 

Bet I could get drunk on LA beer less than 1.2% ABV without water poisoning, though it would not be a pleasant experience. There are much easier ways to get drunk. An ABV limit for the existing LA style of 1.2 makes sense though. Hopefully we don't end up with two styles; NA and LA.

 

Of course, US TTB regulations puts "Low Alcohol (LA)" at less than 2.5% ABV (chart in post #28 above).

I imagine most of the now-defunct LA's from breweries like AB (which had a brand simply called LA) and Heileman (seems they had "LA" line extentsions of half a dozen or so of their major brands) and several other US breweries in the late '80s had alcoholic level well over 1.2% (they predated listing ABV on US beer labels).

OTOH, not likely many of them are in line for revival, tho'