I drink about 2-3 times more non-alcoholic beer than alcoholic beer. It’s nice to still enjoy a cold beer with my dinner without ruining my sleep on a week day
Your occasional reminder that alcohol is poison and will literally kill you. This is good news.
Additional reminder that there are more alcohole deaths anually than there are of all other drugs (legal and illegal) combined!
I stopped drinking it because it’s poison
Just another reminder that everything kills you and you have to die of something.
Beer is one of the few alcoholic beverages where the taste difference to non-alcoholic is really small, many would even say non-existent (at least for the ones that are regularly sold in German supermarkets).
Yesterday I even used non-alcoholic pilsener in an alcoholic cocktail, there was just no reason to use alcoholic pilsener instead.
I really don’t think that alcohol free beer and normal beer taste similar at all, and I really like both kinds of beer 😀
Then you have had shit non-alcoholic beer so far. Bitburger 0.0% tastes bad. But Radeberger alkoholfrei, Nittenauer Lola Coffee Porter alkoholfrei, Härle Export non-alc, Uiltje Bird of Prey, Wolfscraft Bio alkoholfrei, Störtebecker Frei-Bier all are good non-alcoholic beers.
I never said they taste bad. I said they tastes different. If you can’t tell a difference in taste, then I don’t know what to tell you.
Here in Belgium more and more of the stronger beer brewers are experimenting with creating non-alcoholic versions and it’s pretty great.
Obviously the taste is different, but often still very decent.
As compared to what? Non-alcoholic wine? Is that even a thing? And I don’t mean grape juice obviously.
I find the taste difference to be pretty strong and would rather have no beer at all 🤷 Which is also fine ofc.
In Germany, alcohol-free wine is very common, and even smaller supermarkets sell alcohol-free gin and rum (specifically Captain Morgan Spiced). Whether those are any good really depends on what kinds of drinks you make with them, IME they usually suck when drunk neat, but e.g. alcohol-free wine is fine in an Aperol Spritz.
I have never tasted a difference between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer of the same brand, though I’m not a big beer drinker so the nuances might be lost on me. But I don’t really like wine, either, and that difference is extremely obvious to me.
Hmm, TIL. I never noticed those in any supermarket, but I admit I never looked for them either.
Gordon’s non-alcoholic gin works well with lemonade (Zitronenlimo) or sprite.
I don’t drink since ages and never really drank wine. For me real wine mostly smells and tastes like solvent. Like it is isopropanol with some grapes.
Wouldn’t alcohol free gin simply be herbal tea?
I’ve never seen a herbal tea that tastes like juniper. You’re not wrong, though, and it definitely feels like a ripoff when it’s the same price as the brand’s regular alcoholic product.
captain morgan spiced isn’t very good to begin with
Meh, it’s not that bad. Wouldn’t pick it over any of the rums I usually buy (which aren’t available in supermarkets anyway), but it’s a decent enough spirit for its price class. I’d pick it over Bacardi or cheap whisky for sure.
There are non-alcoholic Rieslings that taste like actual wine. I have done enough tastings to know that.
I second that the taste difference is pretty big, at least for most I’ve tried.
I’ll third that, I would never confuse any of the German NA lagers I’ve tried with the real thing.
There are some where there is no difference or where it tastes like a slightly different beer but not thin. I have tried over 100 different non-alc beers and Helles and IPLs tend to get pretty good non-alcoholic variants. However I recommend staying away from Bitburger, Paulaner, Clausthaler, Bayreuther and Oettinger. Basically most of the most available large brands have the worst non-alcoholic beers.
Never had a decent NA helles, but Athletic does have some IPAs that aren’t awful. Lagers though always taste way too malty, at least all the ones I’ve tried.
Do you have Untappd? I can show you my reviews.
Not on my new phone, no. They’ve got just a website, you can just link that. I’m sincerely interested if you know NA lagers that actually taste like the beer they’re trying to be.
In Sweden, alco-free wine definitely is a thing. I’ve also already seen it in a German supermarket. But, as I don’t like wine, I didn’t try it.
I’ve bought alcohol free wine in Canada and Japan. They were ok, but it makes me want to drink the real thing even more so I stay away from it. And I think my body still reacts to the tiny bit left in it because I can feel my face get warm and red (I have that crappy Asian genes that doesn’t process alcohol).
That might also be a reaction to the histamines common in wine and well cured cheese. Some people are very sensitive to that and have allergy like symptoms.
Oh! I had no idea! I don’t think I get that from well-cured cheese, but tbh, I haven’t had good cheese in a while since it’s so expensive to get in Japan. I do have sensitive skin too, so you might be on to something!
I’ve yet to try an alcohol free wine I’ve liked, a lot more alcohol to replace than beer, I guess. Also don’t see the point with wine. Alcohol free beer is nice as a fizzy beverage that isn’t sugary.
I recommend Deutsches Weintor Riesling alkoholfrei if you are in Germany. Then you will know there are good non-alc wines.
Champagne / sparkling wine is a common one with non alcoholic versions
I like having my gin and tonic with a healthy dose of lemon juice and pulp, but I discovered it’s just as nice without the gin so these days I often just have tonic and lemon. Obviously it’s still a different experience so it’s not like I’d never have a g&t again
Espresso Tonic is my favorite “cocktail”, it’s just tonic and a shot of espresso. Terrible for those that don’t like bitterness though.
I discovered last week alcohol free gin. Didn’t even know that was a thing
It’s just nice. I don’t drink alcohol but I like everything else about beer so I’m glad it’s an option. There’s also a social factor to it. Drinking soda while everyone else has a beer just doesn’t feel right for some occasions.
Though if I go out, people complain that I don’t drink alcohol and act like dicks about it. So I started vaping weed or snorting stuff and act angry that the others aren’t having some to and be like: “See how I feel?”
So I started vaping weed
That’s what I do too for social gatherings where others drink but I don’t think I’ve ever had to convince my friends to join 😅
Well I have the issue that people in my village think there is an obligation to drink alcohol at social gatherings and they start pestering you about it even though you tell them like a hundred times that you can’t drink alcohol because you had a MCNV in your eye and alcohol could cause a recidive which could make you go blind. They don’t want to fucking understand. They will be like “one beer isn’t going to do anything”.
I have two sips of wine a few months back and it caused the veins in my eye to expand putting a dent in my eyesight. A bottle of beer will definitely do something. Weed doesnt do anything. Lowdose coke or chewing coca leaves wont do anything. However I can’t have alcohol or amphetamines (also no Ritalin). I actually snort something called kanna which actually has positive effects on the veins in my eye, though only temporarily.
Hmm, so this is starting to cross the Atlantic. Interesting.
As an aspiring alcoholic, I find this message offensive bordering on hate speech toward my race, creed and religion.
I like both alcoholic beer and non-alcoholic beer, but if it’s 0% it needs to taste like its own thing. I’ve had 0% beer where you can tell they’re trying to taste like there’s still alcohol in it and it’s never that great. If you can’t have alcohol I get it, but for me, it turns me off from the beer.
Corona Sunbrew is an example of a 0% beer that doesn’t have that fake alcohol taste to it. I’m moving away from lagers a bit now to expand my tastes so I don’t drink Sunbrew anymore but my wife drinks it and I’ll have a sip from time to time and it’s actually good. It doesn’t taste like it’s trying to fake being an alcoholic drink. It’s not the perfect beer or anything but it tastes like 0% beer without tasting like a cheap knockoff.
German alcohol-free beers contain exactly the same ingredients as regular beer minus alcohol, most of them are just regular beers treated with vaccum destillation and/or filtration. IMO the alcohol is practically tasteless at that ABV anyway.
How should it taste like alcohol?? Aroma?
Alcohol free beer is fermented malt and hop and stuff, if it has a lot of hop it works
I’ve found many 0% drinks to try and add the warm/burning feeling that you get from alcohol and it never works well.
Where? Also beer doesn’t have the alcohol burn. Or are you drinking some kind of Eisbock with 14%?
Yasss being alcohol free is the best.
As long as they don’t ever try to get rid of the alcohol versions, cool.
Non-Alcoholic Beer: Same awful taste, but none of the fun!
There are lots of more efficient ways to get drunk if you don’t like the taste
Like butt-chugging?
Why even trink beer if you don’t like the taste. There are about one million alternatives.
Why snort cocaine if you don’t like the smell?
That analogy makes no sense.
Why do [drug] if you don’t like the [flavor]?
We were talking about beer, where are lots of alternatives for alcohol beverages are available. You can ofc can smoke crack if you dislike the cocaine. You do you.
I don’t think I’ve ever been in the same room as cocaine. What does it smell like?
It smells like teen spirit.
Why even trink beer if you don’t like the taste.
For the effect.
Why not other beverages that you actually like?
They don’t get you drunk.
Wines, liqueurs, spirits, cocktails get you drunk just fine.
Tell me you haven’t had a negroni without telling me
There are other alcoholic beverages though. Drink wine instead of you don’t like beer and want to get drunk. You can buy a liter of wine from a vintner for three or four Euros.
