N/A Beer Is Booming. Here Are the Ones to Try.
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Despite the many challenges of brewing nonalcoholic beer, the evolving market has plenty of standout, crave-worthy options.
  • Baggins@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    10 months ago

    UK here. Guinness Zero is uncanny. Just like standard draught. I always keep some in the fridge at home.

        • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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          10 months ago

          First off, it is 100% ok to not like beer. That being said, you might want to try some other styles. If you like roasted coffee/chocolate flavors, try stouts or porters. Belgians are also one of my favorites. Tend to be more caramely, and a little yeasty. Delirium Tremens and Le Chouffe are a couple of my favorites that tend to be easy to get. If those are not around, Unibrowe brewing from Canada does Belgian style beers. Sours can also be pretty fun, and can approach juice like flavors.

          I could probably go on for a bit, but there are a lot of options out there.

  • inverted_deflector@startrek.website
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    10 months ago

    One of the issues I have with non alcoholic products is that because they are meant to be a drop in replacement for alcoholic they wind up being comparable in price sometimes even more expensive.

    For what is effectively a softdrink you wind up paying almost 14-$20 a 6pack and a mocktail at a bar can cost $10+ a cup. Compared to something like soda, flavored seltzers, or a malty brewed softdrink like malta the prices are so high. You can get 12-24 packs for what theyre asking. Some mocktails actually take quite a lot of effort to put together to justify the pricetag, but most Ive seen in the wild tend to be simple to make and in terms of labor not much more than a late or milkshake despite being priced way above them.

    That said there’s nothing wrong with giving people more options to drink while out and about and if you do enjoy the taste of beer to be able to enjoy it without having to get buzzed(even if for some even a mild kick is part of the point)

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      Alcohol-free beer is usually made through the same process, though. So I expect it to cost the same.

      But mocktaiks at bars that are basically juice costing almost the same as cocktails? Yeah, fuck that.

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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        10 months ago

        Even if made through the same process you aren’t paying the alcohol tax at the till so it should be a fair bit cheaper.

        Unless it’s inherintly difficult to remove the alcohol which I can’t see since alcohol evaporates pretty easily but I’m no expert or a brewer.