Non/low Alcoholic Beer/spirits

...and one thing led to another in the campsite toilet ??

 

You fill in the gaps yourself you grubby minded perv

 

Bit harsh calling such a mutually thrilling occasion a ‘bash’.

 

Fair play for managing the deed if you were that drunk

 

Drinking beer without alcohol is like supporting a team without a goal scorer. How much misery do you want in your lives? You got through the last season, now you should really be enjoying yourselves lol

 

Mediocre

 

Can't believe I've only just found this thread! The pitfalls of only lurking the football sections of this site...

The main problem with low/no alcohol beers historically is that they have utterly failed to capture that 'bite' you get when you drink a full-service beer. It's the sharpness that cuts through as you take it into your mouth, and gives the taste and mouthfeel a satisfying body and presence. All the big brewery 0% versions like, say, Heineken, fall foul of this and end up resembling thin, pungent water as a result. In my experience, you need to go largely for specialist breweries that are solely focused on producing non-alcoholic products.

The absolute No.1 best non-alcoholic beer I have tried is from BRULO. They are a Scottish brewery, based in Edinburgh, and they produce a range of lagers, stouts, IPAs of the DDH-type variety, and more; all 0% alcoholic. Their 'Lust for Life' DDH IPA is the best non-alcoholic beer I have ever had - it smells delightful, like a mix of mango and passionfruit, and perfectly reproduces the effects of drinking an alcoholic beverage (aside from the drunkenness!). It's a (relatively) complex, full-bodied taste (though of course that particular option does lean heavily toward the currently fashionable 'craft beer' IPA+ type of beverage that one beloved family friend describes as 'floral'). Drinking it is more enjoyable than drinking plenty of other full alcohol tipples.

As @hornmeister as already initially pointed out, Lucky Saint have managed to produce a perfectly serviceable standard pisswasser-style lager with the requisite bite*; I'm perfectly happy to drink that. Their recent attempt at a Hazy IPA was not successful at all, however, by comparison; greatly lacking in the same taste and feel-ape that the lager pulls off. Something else to note is that their beautifully designed glass bottles have been disappearing from shelves recently, to be replaced by cans even as the price increases - a minor difference, but a great shame to my mind.

Along similar lines, Free Damm has popped up out of nowhere recently, and is available in several supermarkets; it is a perfectly cromulent facsimile to Lucky Saint, and achieves a very similar level of real-beer-replication, but often at a fraction of the price. Currently, a four pack of Lucky Saint at Morrisons is £6 outside of a bundle deal, whilst Free Damm is listed at £4 on the shelf, and actually rings up at £3.50...

I have to speak up for Clausthaler, too - they are another dedicated no-alcohol brewery, and their lager is at the top of my non-alc lager list, even above the very acceptable offerings from Lucky Saint and Free Damm.

In terms of products that have great reputation and even greater disappointment, shout out to Big Drop - incredibly bad, tasteless mud water versions of cool modern beers that are constantly unjustly lionised by lazy broad tastemaker outlets like Shortlist and GQ (presumably for advertorial purposes). Another honourable mention goes to full-alc brewery Northern Monk, who recently produced a 'Chocolate and Maple Imperial Stout' that was one of the worst drinks I have imbibed full stop, let alone this Christmas, which was mostly filled with delightful Christmas versions of double-figure-%-ABV Belgian Trappist ales.


*Not to mention the fact that their eponymous up-their-own-ass pub in central London was chosen and featured as trip headquarters in Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's fourth 'dreamily piss about on motorcycles' epic, 'Long Way Home'.

 

I thought you were banned?

 

I believe he has added a space before the letters for a new login name. Make the most of him as it won’t be long before the Mods realise and kill him off as they did with Burnsy’s rejoin attempts.

 

St Austel Proper Job is growing on me.

 

I've joined the Guiness 0% revolution. At last a 0% drink with some taste still.

Thanks peeps

 

It's 90% ther imho. Better than a poorly served propoer Guinness.


Asda are jobbing our Propper Job for £1.49 in bottles with a buy 4 for the price of 3 offer.