Alcohol free beer

vet111s · Post by **vet111s** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 2:56 pm

I know it sounds an oxymoron but still. In the lead up to and since Beth has been born I've been enjoying (?) alcohol free beer in the evenings.
However, just noticed on the outer of the 6 pack of Becks Blue it urges consumers to "enjoy Becks Blue responsibly"
Can anyone explain how one is supposed to enjoy something that has "no more than 0.05% abv" irresponsibly!?

flyingscot68 · Post by **flyingscot68** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:34 pm

I haven't had alcohol free beer since Kaliber (I think that's what it was - advertised by Billy Connolly) was doing the rounds in the early nineties.

If you drank enough it still made you fat and gave you all the joy of a hangover but without the sore head, dodgy guts only.

Can't imagine why it would say enjoy it responsibly?? Maybe they mean don't feed it to your kids?

vet111s · Post by **vet111s** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:48 pm

While brew dog were doing their Nanny State 0.5% beer I enjoyed that but was a novelty limited run.
This http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/sainsburys ... er/133823/ is pretty good from sainsburys as a low alcohol 'adult' drink. Can't abide fizzy pop and there's only so much water-sparkling or otherwise you can consume!

young_bairn · Post by **young_bairn** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:10 pm

We are given Becks blue at Christmas/new year offshore. Had a bottle new years day. Everything I have it I think what's the point? Lager without the alcohol is just wrong.

tut · Post by **tut** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:11 pm

What they actually mean is enjoy it responsibly by not drinking it.

tut

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:05 pm

I have a saying about N.A. beer, but if I said it here I'd have the mods on me like flies round Shiite

Post by **Shug** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:11 pm

So we're saying the *only* reason to drink beer is that it intoxicates... Interesting

I will occasionally have a few bottles of zero alcohol stuff like the Becks blue (probably the most beer-like) if I'm out with mates and driving. Can't stand drinking coke all night. Would be nice if there was a zero alcohol beer-like-drink that didn't market itself as pretending to be normal beer. If I've got no reason to remain sober or able to drive a car, I'll have stuff with alcohol in it.

In answer to the OP question - I'll bet it's some regulation that because the drink has more than a trace amount of Alcohol (albeit tiny) then you legally have to whack that notice on it.

young_bairn · Post by **young_bairn** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:18 pm

Shug wrote:So we're saying the *only* reason to drink beer is that it intoxicates... Interesting

I will occasionally have a few bottles of zero alcohol stuff like the Becks blue (probably the most beer-like) if I'm out with mates and driving. Can't stand drinking coke all night. Would be nice if there was a zero alcohol beer-like-drink that didn't market itself as pretending to be normal beer. If I've got no reason to remain sober or able to drive a car, I'll have stuff with alcohol in it.

In answer to the OP question - I'll bet it's some regulation that because the drink has more than a trace amount of Alcohol (albeit tiny) then you legally have to whack that notice on it.

Yes, yes we are!

Rossybee iv also heard that saying. Best not put up here

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:21 pm

Only ever tried Non-Alcoholic beer once (2 bottles of Kaliber after my wedding as I was driving to Reading straight after the meal). Horrible stuff.

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:39 pm

young_bairn wrote:Rossybee iv also heard that saying. Best not put up here

Does it involve my sister?

Non-alky Cobra is not a bad brew btw

young_bairn · Post by **young_bairn** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:41 pm

rossybee wrote:
young_bairn wrote:Rossybee iv also heard that saying. Best not put up here
Does it involve my sister?

Non-alky Cobra is not a bad brew btw

Best leave it at that

hendeg · Post by **hendeg** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:09 pm

I've been alcohol-free for 4 years now. One of my first non-alcohol beers was unbelievably an Amstel in Amsterdam during French Frolic! I think they'd put something else in it though. I also quite like a Cobra Zero.

young_bairn wrote:I think what's the point? Lager without the alcohol is just wrong.

Lager can be quite refreshing and as others have said, there are only so many soft drinks you can take in a night. If you're driving, it can also avoid the 'tak a drink' comments.

flyingscot68 · Post by **flyingscot68** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:20 pm

I'm out tonight and driving.
Going to try the Cobra and Becks if they have it.

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 8:08 pm

I'll keep an eye out for those brands ... I like a beer with my dinner from time to time, but would do no harm to have alcohol free stuff (not that I actually drink that much, unless I am visiting those "up north"

).

Cheers,
Robin

woody · Post by **woody** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 8:16 pm

As a halfway house I enjoyed some brew dog how to disappear completely a few weeks ago, it's only 2.something%.

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