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General Soft Drink / Non Alcoholic Beer Recommendations.

Yellow River

Yellow River

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I love my real ales, if I have one pint I like another, but from time to time, ie when driving it’s not appropriate to drink alcohol. Plus for health reasons it wouldn’t do me any harm to cut down a bit.

At home I’m quite happy to drink water with a meal, but that’s not really appropriate when I’m in a pub or bar. So what non alcoholic soft drink would our learned forumites recommend as a half pint or full pint option?

In general I’m not a fan of low or non alcoholic beers, however I guess they’re improving? So would be interested to hear of any worth trying.
 
0% Guinness is really good. Koppaberg fruit cider is also ok as a refreshing summer alcohol free drink. Haven’t tried any of the Punk IPA type 0% versions.

My favourite summer drink has to be iced cold water though - stick a bottle in the freezer and get it out just before it turns to ice, gorgeous stuff!
 
Ewes said:
0% Guinness is really good. Koppaberg fruit cider is also ok as a refreshing summer alcohol free drink. Haven’t tried any of the Punk IPA type 0% versions.

My favourite summer drink has to be iced cold water though - stick a bottle in the freezer and get it out just before it turns to ice, gorgeous stuff!
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I know a few people who say the 0% Guinness is one of the better non alcoholic’ beers. Must give it a try sometime.
 
Ewes said:
0% Guinness is really good. Koppaberg fruit cider is also ok as a refreshing summer alcohol free drink. Haven’t tried any of the Punk IPA type 0% versions.

My favourite summer drink has to be iced cold water though - stick a bottle in the freezer and get it out just before it turns to ice, gorgeous stuff!
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Brewdog's alcohol free beers are generally pretty decent, and I agree the Guinness 0% is good, especially on draft although that's pretty rare. Asahi zero is a really good lager too.
 
0% Peroni aint bad. That's what I stuck to whole training for a half marathon earlier this year. Got straight back on the higher percentage stuff after that, and my stomach has definitely grown back much quicker than I'd expected.
 
I don't mind Heineken or Peroni 0%, they seem to be the ones in pubs along with Becks (small bottle so a bit of a rip off). They all taste much of muchness but if I drive to football its nice to stand with something that at least feels like an adult drink, plus apart from tea and water I don't really drink soft drinks so I am a bit limited for choice.
 
holdsteady said:
I don't mind Heineken or Peroni 0%, they seem to be the ones in pubs along with Becks (small bottle so a bit of a rip off). They all taste much of muchness but if I drive to football its nice to stand with something that at least feels like an adult drink, plus apart from tea and water I don't really drink soft drinks so I am a bit limited for choice.
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I've stopped the soft drinks in a bid to reduce the sugar/artificial sweeteners, so the 0% beer has become the default pub drink, for when I don't want a buzz.
 
Emilio said:
I've stopped the soft drinks in a bid to reduce the sugar/artificial sweeteners, so the 0% beer has become the default pub drink, for when I don't want a buzz.
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I stopped soft drinks years ago now, had no more than a handful over the last decade when I haven’t had much choice, don’t miss them at all.

Had my first Guiness 0% the other day, tasted nice.

My only quibble is that they nearly all come in bottles so you finish them a bit quick, would be nice to be able to have a pint .
 
It is a bit of a wild west with alcohol free beers. Sometimes a s**t lager does an alright alcohol free version and a higher tier lager does absolute shite (The morretti one was particularly dreadful, I think. As was Corona). Best I've had are the 0% guinness and the Erdinger Weissbier that comes in a blue bottle.

There is a (not cheap) company called St Peters that do alcohol free beers and I can honestly say they're completely vile.

As for soft drinks... i mean they're all the same as they've always been and Vimto is the best.
 
Mojofilter said:
It is a bit of a wild west with alcohol free beers. Sometimes a s**t lager does an alright alcohol free version and a higher tier lager does absolute shite (The morretti one was particularly dreadful, I think. As was Corona). Best I've had are the 0% guinness and the Erdinger Weissbier that comes in a blue bottle.

There is a (not cheap) company called St Peters that do alcohol free beers and I can honestly say they're completely vile.

As for soft drinks... i mean they're all the same as they've always been and Vimto is the best.
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The non alcoholic lagers don't actually taste much like their namesakes do they so you can't base it on whether you like the alcoholic version.

After paying £9.50 for a pint in the O2 last night thinking of just drinking from puddles anyway, maddest thing is people were throwing it at that price.
 
holdsteady said:
The non alcoholic lagers don't actually taste much like their namesakes do they so you can't base it on whether you like the alcoholic version.

After paying £9.50 for a pint in the O2 last night thinking of just drinking from puddles anyway, maddest thing is people were throwing it at that price.
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It probably wasn't the original contents of the plastic glasses that they were throwing...
 
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