Category:Non Alcoholic Beer

Non-alcoholic beers can take a few forms.

The typical method for brewing beer that tastes like real beer, but is alcohol free, is to brew a real beer then remove the alcohol. Alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water, so heating the beer to a temperature that is above the alcohol point point, but below the water boiling point, allows the alcohol to evaporate. If done correctly and carefully, the taste is maintained, but too much heat can cause a degradation in taste. And this method doesn't always result in the alcohol content being reduced to 0. The evaporation may not complete 100%, or there may be small amounts of sugar remainging, which can ferment in the bottle or can with the yeast, resulting in a very small amount of alcohol. Alcohol free beers made in this style can typically be identified as the ABV being noted as <0.5% (less than 0.5%), which covers the brewery in case it is not exactly zero. And some breweries will point out that this is still a higher ABV than things like orange juice and some lemonades.