These have been getting much better with craft brewing. Last night I had an Athletic Brewing Company Free Wave no alcohol IPA. Quite delicious and very satisfying. 70 calories.
Available nationwide I think at Whole Foods. Athletic has a pretty full lineup of beer types.
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Athletic has gotten really popular, they make good NA beer. There are so many more choices now! We really like the Deschutes Black Butte (porter) NA, their regular Black Butte porter is really nice too. and the Blue Moon NA is very light and citrusy - a little sweet - so good with certain things, but not others. I tend to drink Busch NA the most because it’s less expensive and it’s what WalMart carries.
I’ve had a couple of the Athletic beers, and they taste good, probably the best out there, but it still seems to me that there’s something missing, and I don’t mean alcohol. It’s something having to do with body or balance.
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Non-alcoholic beer is good for the Sober Curious, but not for alcoholics. I know alcoholics who thought they could drink non-alcoholic beer. No. There is enough alcohol in non-alcoholic beer to spark the craving and loss of control over drinking. Even ginger beer and kombucha ferment a little and should be avoided by alcoholics.
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Originally posted by CHAS: Non-alcoholic beer is good for the Sober Curious, but not for alcoholics. I know alcoholics who thought they could drink non-alcoholic beer. No. There is enough alcohol in non-alcoholic beer to spark the craving and loss of control over drinking. Even ginger beer and kombucha ferment a little and should be avoided by alcoholics.
True. And its not just the trace of alcohol. It's also the psychological association. Like tossing lit matches over a bucket of gasoline for some people.
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I think pique is correct in that some of the problems alcoholics have with NA beer is the association with drinking something called beer in a bar atmosphere. I never liked the bar atmosphere, many alcoholics do.
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I love a good dive bar, one of those places if your drink has more than two ingredients, and ice counts, you're in the wrong place. But for someone who has a problem with alcohol, even zero alcohol beer is too close, as is the atmosphere.
I wish there was a bar like that near me. I grew up with a ton of them. Not nightclubs, bars.
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Originally posted by Mikhailoh: I love a good dive bar, one of those places if your drink has more than two ingredients, and ice counts, you're in the wrong place. But for someone who has a problem with alcohol, even zero alcohol beer is too close, as is the atmosphere.
I wish there was a bar like that near me. I grew up with a ton of them. Not nightclubs, bars.
I never really liked bars. They seemed like places for alcoholics. Then I learned too late in life that people went to those places to find romantic partners. Sigh. Oh, well, fortunately I found that kind of attention in other places.
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