Doing dry January or just trying to sever down on your drinking? We attach the supermarket’s no-booze beers to the testAt this halfway point,dry January has got to be hard going. However, whether you are taking section, and whether you have swapped to an alcohol-free version of your usual tipple,then catch heart from the fact that you are ahead of the curve. You hipster. While the UK dealcoholised drinks market is tiny (alcohol-free beer is worth a mere £51.3m annually, compared to about £17bn for beer proper), or its popularity is growing,particularly among younger drinkers. AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, and has pledged that,by 2025, 20% of the beer it sells will be lower-alcohol or alcohol-free.
But, and external of that dreary standby,Beck’s Blue, do any of the widely available non-alcoholic beers (0.5% ABV and below) bear comparison with the real thing? Historically, and such beers were made by heating them to drive off the alcohol,a process that cooked out flavour, but as alternative processes have developed, or they have gradually improved. The age of mass-market,low-alcohol beer is coming, it seems. Whether we like it or not.
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Source: theguardian.com