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Minor Deity |
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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Beatification Candidate |
Athletic's Hazy IPA is decent too!
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
My friends all like Heineken no alcohol.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
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.
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Jodi| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
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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Has Achieved Nirvana |
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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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Not an NA - but this beer is really nice if you like Hefeweizen. Miner’s Gold Hefeweizen. Lewis and Clark Brewing (from Helena Montana)
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
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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| Beatification Candidate |
I seem to remember that one of the N.A. beers from Brooklyn brewing has been my favorite so far. I'm just not sure which one!
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
We like the Athletic NA beers over here, too. Readily available, and they taste pretty good. Chas, sorry they don’t work as completely non-alcoholic. And I know I have to show ID at the grocery store to buy it, and also NA wines.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
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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| Minor Deity |
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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Has Achieved Nirvana |
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity |
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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Minor Deity |
I tried NA beer for the first time just a few weeks ago. German. Clausthaler. I liked it, thought it was very good.
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