I guess the simple answer is “why should I have to drink a very sweet drink if i’m not having alcohol?”.
There’s and “Ode to Beer” if i’ve ever heard one!
Good luck with finding a few bottles.
It is exceptionally good. Not the real thing, but a very good substitute.
Iain
I could post something similar except substituting ‘under the effect of alcohol’ for ‘sober’.
Different folks, different choices. Interesting zero alcohol drinks that aren’t stuffed with sugar or sweeteners are a boon to those of us who choose to avoid alcohol much of the time.
Bruce
Hop Back Crop Circle
Cultural in what sense?
I agree that many trips/holidays might have been less exciting over the years without alcohol, but have tried quite a few low alcohol drinks over the last couple of years just to see what’s out there these days.
I wonder how much I’ve missed out on culturally abroad just by having had a few too many the day/night before which would have made me quite disinterested in say visiting famous historic buildings, museums/galleries etc.
The majority of these low alcohol ubstitutes are not great but there are definitely ones that I’d prefer over others, and it’s likely to be a very individual thing.
I think it’s a bit of a shame that so many do try for ‘0%’ or <0.5%. I’m sure many beers would taste a lot better (even if not as good as the normal ones) with 1-2% alcohol content, or maybe spirits with 10-15% content provided you used the same measures and just didn’t imbibe/mix a lot more. Maybe it’s simpler to try to extract virtually all the alcohol than to produce drinks with lower alcohol content.
This is a key point. About ten or so years back in Ontario here, Molson made a 2.5% beer for a while and it was very good. I could drink it on a night out without cramping my style too much. I don’t know what adjuncts (allowable additions like rice) they added to the brew, but it was quite full-flavoured. They only made it for a year or so, but now that I get neuro issues in my lower legs from extra alcohol, I wish they still did.
Posters that say they don’t get 0% beer are just too young or too d"mn healthy.
Can you believe some stupid idiot’s are paying £20 for pint of Guinness at the Cheltenham festival. Now that money could go towards VINYL
holy moly - more money than sense.
To be fair I personally think that applies to betting on horses too!
‘0% Beer’ is an oxymoron.
That’s shocking. I stopped going to the pub when the price of a pint got close to £5, let alone £20.
I quite agree. I would add that they probably also do not drink with a frequency that borders on having a problem. For me 0% beer has helped me to stay mostly on the wagon for almost 2 years.
When beer got close to £5 a pint I built my own pub in the garden…cask ale works out at £1.25 pint…payback on the building approx 12 yrs…
Yes exactly. It allows a higher frequency of consumption, which I also need to watch, without increasing overall alcohol ingestion.
Congrats on the 2 years.
That’s clever, perhaps, but I’m no longer allowed to drink alcohol, so 0% alcohol is a damn sight better than nothing.
Drink as much of it as you like.
But it should not be called beer. Because it isn’t.
We shall have to agree to disagree. It’s brewed in exactly the same way as ordinary beer, then the alcohol is removed.
I don’t know how they do that. But I don’t know how to brew beer either.
I can’t see that it matters, in any event. Main thing is that it tastes bloody good.