Anyone else like Budweiser Zero?

jpaul said:
aren't there some reasonable squashes now ? - keep meaning to explore that market
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That's quite a lot of choice now, we've got all sorts in at home. Restaurants need to up their game and start stocking more alcohol free options. Just shoving a couple of fruit juices together and calling it a mocktail isn't good enough.

Jukes Cordialities are very good, quite expensive though. There's a decent range of alcohol free gin, I really like Tanqueray 0.0%.
 
I like Erdinger Alkoholfrei, but it is very gassy and bloating. Tried the Brooklyn stuff tonight and also thought that was nice.

I'm more of a pale ale or IPA drinker though and not sure there's many decent alcohol free versions of those? I had a Ghostship alcohol free the other day and seem to recall it being okay.
 
Armageus said:
San Miguel 0.0% is one of the better non-alcohol options - taste isn't too far from the alcohol version.

Becks blue was fairly reasonable as well.
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+1 for Becks, although I remember the bottled version being substantially better but they always seem to come in tiny units (275ml).

I haven't tried San Miguel or Peroni.

Guinness was indistinguishable from the draught alcoholic cans (which wasn't necessarily a good thing for me).
 
Budweiser is disgusting with alcohol so I can’t imagine zero being an improvement. I’ve drunk a fair few 0% beers over the years. Erdinger is the best of the easily available in supermarkets. Heineken is not bad. Clausteiner is the best but I could only ever get it from Budgens. Ghost Ship definitely needs an honourable mention.
 
something daft already!! said:
I could never understand the point of alcohol free lager. I recall that stuff Billy Connolly used to advertise, Caliba I think it was called. It had all the taste of a waterlogged ashtray and was about as much fun as drinking one. Lager tastes nasty at the best of times IMO, I cannot understand why people would drink for any other reason than to get intoxicated. Alcohol free lager tasted vile and did not have the added bonus of seeing double before vomiting it back up.

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Maybe things have improved since then but I still would not try it myself.
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Shock as person who does not like lager does not see the point of alcohol free lager.

For people who do like the taste of lager, surely you see the point of having alcohol free lager?
 
It's a weird one for me, i've tried quite a few and so far i always get a weird chemical taste to them that tastes a bit off, i sometimes get it from some of the lower table beers too, i assume it's maybe a sensitivity to whatever they use to reduce the alcohol? It always makes it offputting and so it's never quite sold it for me. The Heineken and Brooklyn ones i can deal with, but it still has that unpleasant taste. I think my go-to if i'm driving is Schoffenhoffer, only 2% but tastes great.

Based on a podcast, I heard that Athletic brewing use a slightly different process to most which doesn't include that, but i've not tried it yet.


I'd also like a good non alcoholic red wine/whisky. Yet so far nothing compares to the actual thing, to the point i'd rather just drink a soft drink. Maybe these things are better for people who don't drink alcohol at all and are therefore the closest thing they'll get, whereas for people who do drink it's often more suitable to go with a soft drink when the occasion needs, and save the wine/beer for times when you can have the alcoholic variant.
 
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