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[Saint Rich]

can't believe no one has suggested this...

Nice weak beer

I'm still on the lookout for Brewdog Edge. They occasionally brew it as a cask beer. Only about 4%, but stacked full of flavour.

[Andrew Vause]

Anyone know of any decent beer with ABV <3% that I can get hold of reasonably easily?

I know some milds have a lower ABV but they're not likely to be stocked at a sensible price in my local Tesco's.

Thanks.

Blend a third of a can of Tennants Purple with 2/3 rds lemonade, that should be about 3 ish.

Edited by Andrew Vause, 26 November 2010 - 12:29 PM.

[Futtocks]

I don't know about low alcohol beer, but First Cape have launched a range of low alcohol wines (about 5.5%), called the Cafe Collection.

Their brand is available in many supermarkets, and the first time I tried one, I didn't know about the 'low alcohol' thing, and didn't notice either. The red I had was competitive in terms of taste with other wines at the same modest price.

[Saint Rich]

Their brand is available in many supermarkets, and the first time I tried one, I didn't know about the 'low alcohol' thing, and didn't notice either. The red I had was competitive in terms of taste with other wines at the same modest price.

So nothing special then? Cooking wine.

[Futtocks]

So nothing special then? Cooking wine.

Perfectly drinkable plonk, like much around the £4-5 mark.

[Tiny Tim]

So nothing special then? Cooking wine.

If you use cheap wine for cooking, your dishes will taste of cheap wine.

[Pen-Y-Bont Crusader]

Swan Lager 20 years ago always seemed ok to me.

[Trojan]

In the past when our water supply wasn't all that wholesome, most people drank "small beer" whether they bought it or brewed it I'm not sure, but it was presumably a weak version of beer. Even John Wesley's ouitdoor meetings used to end with "cakes and ale" presumably "small beer"

[Celt]

I drink a lot of alcohol-free or low alcohol beer.

I don't know how widely available these are in the UK, but my two favourites are:

Bitburger Drive (which tastes remarkably similar to bottled Bitburger) and

Erdinger Alkoholfrei (a Weissbier).

Bitburger Drive sponsors the german football team, and is marketed internationally. I don't want to blether on about it being 'really good' as these things are always subjective, but i really like it a lot, drink about 3 bottles a day, and really recommend you give it a try. It has less than 1% alcohol.

[Ullman]

I drink a lot of alcohol-free or low alcohol beer.

I don't know how widely available these are in the UK, but my two favourites are:

Bitburger Drive (which tastes remarkably similar to bottled Bitburger) and

Erdinger Alkoholfrei (a Weissbier).

Bitburger Drive sponsors the german football team, and is marketed internationally. I don't want to blether on about it being 'really good' as these things are always subjective, but i really like it a lot, drink about 3 bottles a day, and really recommend you give it a try. It has less than 1% alcohol.

I've tried that and I think it's very palatable.

Although my son reckons it smells like the bottom of a rabbit hutch.

[waistline expansionist]

I drink a lot of alcohol-free or low alcohol beer.

I don't know how widely available these are in the UK, but my two favourites are:

Bitburger Drive (which tastes remarkably similar to bottled Bitburger) and

Erdinger Alkoholfrei (a Weissbier).

Bitburger Drive sponsors the german football team, and is marketed internationally. I don't want to blether on about it being 'really good' as these things are always subjective, but i really like it a lot, drink about 3 bottles a day, and really recommend you give it a try. It has less than 1% alcohol.

Erdinger Alkoholfrei sponsors the German biathlon team. Unfortunately it's hard enough to get hold of normal Erdinger in the UK....


Apparently the government is to reduce duty on beers under 2.8% so we might see more brewers jumping on this.

[Ullman]

Erdinger Alkoholfrei sponsors the German biathlon team. Unfortunately it's hard enough to get hold of normal Erdinger in the UK....


Apparently the government is to reduce duty on beers under 2.8% so we might see more brewers jumping on this.

Is it? Plenty of pubs and offies around here sell it.

I only know of one of them that sell the Alkoholfrei though.

[Saint Rich]

Apparently the government is to reduce duty on beers under 2.8% so we might see more brewers jumping on this.

It's just at proposal stage and I've already written to my MP protesting about it.

Taxing high ABV beer won't do anything about the alleged "drinking blight" in the UK. Why only beer? And why only high ABV, rather than the supermarket offers of 24 tins of lout for a tenner? All this will do is raise the tax on Belgian beers and good craft beer, rather than solving the problem of tramps buying industrial cider.

Idiots.

[Aristotle]

Skol. You can still get it but it tastes like p*ss. Allegedly.
Of course, taste is relative.

[waistline expansionist]

Just got some Manns (or Mann's - it's written both ways on the label) Brown Ale. It's OK but not worth the £1.42 I got charged for it at a popular northern supermarket.

Also got some tins of Thwaites Dark Mild (3.2%) which has a lot more flavour and is about half the price.