Non-Alcoholic (ABV < 0.5%) Beers (2023)

Have been drinking NA quite exactly five years, can deeply recommend it! Have dry moments, days, weeks, months, years, lives. I'm inclined to the latter.

Looks my great NA beer hunt is coming to an end though. Have had about 300 different, and not always remembering which ones. New ones have mainly to be from abroad, with the cost. Think I will enjoy the 90 or so different from my regular super market provider, now and then there will be a new one, which I will be registering and tasting, maybe one or two new each haul, so 10-20 new per year?

Will simply go deeper with the ones readily available

 

Are any American NA beers imported to Finland, or are you trading and/or buying online? Any way you look at it, it's got to be expensive for you.

 

Luckily there are the Hoppy Lager/Amber and IPA Special Effects from the Brooklyn brewery. Have been buying online from mainly the Netherlands and earlier Britain. Cutting down on that radically, will not put in so much energy in totally new anymore. Comfy to drink known.

 

I started incorporating some NA beers back in October and am going completely dry for January. I have had quite a few and here are my thoughts:

Guinness 0 is a lot closer to their Nitro Draught cans than I expected. I could get by on mostly this if I had to.

Clausthaler Dry Hopped is also surprisingly good and super cheap at Trader Joes.

Untitled Art Juicy IPA is probably the best NA beer I have had, but the price is a little too high for regular purchase.

Athletic is a good company overall and everything is decent to quite good. I am getting four, new, online-only 6-packs via FedEx today.

Bravus simply sucks overall. I tried a variety pack and the 4 beers ranged from godawful to barely serviceable.

I had a few local MN ones from Summit and Bauhaus that were good but nothing special.

And I do not know why Sam Adams Just the Haze gets decent reviews. It is putrid overly sweet swill.

 

If they can't get fresh-ish beer to my store I'll never know for sure. But I agree with your statement.

 

It was like 4 months old. That can't possibly explain how awful it was.

 

The 2.54 overall beer average here on BA really makes a statement. I don't know how they stay in business.

 

Totally agree with you re Clausthaler Dry Hopped. Having one at the moment. I usually stay dry on Tuesday and Wednesday but will attempt even more abstinence this month (really overdid it this holiday season).
See a lot of good things about Untitled Art on the forums, but haven't come across any around here.
Tried some Athletic IPAs, ok but wasn't crazy about them. Did like the SA Just the Haze.
Think I like more lager- ish NAs. The NA IPAs just make me feel homesick.
Lagunitas NA IPA NG (no good). Odd. You'd think that would be right up their alley.

 

Thanks for the review. I occasionally try some NA beers. A good idea for someone my age. Most of them seem to disappoint so I try to stick with lower ABV beers and stay away fro the 7% plus beers. I've had the SA Just the haze and didn't hate it but it , IMO, isn't very beer like and too sweet.
I picked up some Guinness 0 and looking forward to trying it, especially after you review.

 

Check out last year's thread too. I recently reviewed the Clausthaler NA Dry Hopped beer. https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/na-abv-0-5-beers-2022.664128/
I agree with @bsp77 's assessments and I think you'll like the Guinness 0.0 if you like the regular Guinness, and also the Clausthaler DH beer if you are an IPA lover.

 

I don't mind the "hop waters" like Lagunitas Hop Refresher, Hoplark, and Sierra Nevada Hop Splash (admittedly haven't tried the latter two). The issue is, these are typically out on warm shelves, and they could be old too.

But I like them mainly because they don't try to be beer, so my expectations are lower, and there's no calories.

My biggest gripe with a NA beer is when it doesn't taste good AND I wasted calories...

 

Just reporting back as I just tried the Guinness 0. I agree with bsp77 as well. It reminded me of Guinness Nitro (yes, I am one of those who enjoy a good nitro beer). I could see myself buying this again if it sticks around.

 

Still the closest beer to the real thing I've had. And only about 75 calories per 14.9 oz. can if I recall.

 

Deschutes Black Butte N/A and Athletics' First Ride are my never let me down, would be good even for alcoholic beers. My beer tastes run towards stouts and porters as my favorite styles though. Happy New Year all!

 

60 calories / 13.5 carbs

 

Been enjoying a number of NA brews so far this month - doing the dry Jan thing.....

My favorites so far would be;

Guinness 0
Sam Adams = Just the Haze
Flying Dog - Deep Fake
Clausthaler DH
Weihenstephaner NA

I ordered some additional AF beers online, which should arrive Wednesday - have not tried any of the Untitled Art NA beers, so a few of those are in my order, along with favorite Bitburger Drive (which I used to find locally in years past, but not now)....will report back!

 

Had Heineken 0.0 last night. Actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

 

Has anyone tried any of these, they all at the TW but I’m looking for opinions from BA drinkers not the TW reviews.

Ceria
Gruvi
Wellbeing
Atmos
Partake
Sober carpenter
Surreal
Erdinger
Clausthaler
Brooklyn, they have a mix of 4 beers
Lagunitas NA IPA
Weinstephaner

Untitled art is quite expensive and even more than I care to pay for the real thing.

Any thoughts are great.

Thanks
Enjoy