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What is the best non-alcoholic beer?

By YPB Team

A category that barely existed twenty years ago now takes shelf space away from ale. These are the ones worth ordering on purpose.

  1. Partake Brewing IPA — ranked #11
    Partake Brewing IPA
    A Canadian brand founded after a Crohn's diagnosis, at ten calories a can.
    1000pts
  2. Clausthaler Original — ranked #22
    Clausthaler Original
    The 1979 German pioneer, brewed alcohol-free by design rather than by removal.
    942pts
  3. Beck's Blue — ranked #33
    Beck's Blue
    The alcohol-free version of the German pils that travels through duty-free everywhere.
    753pts
  4. Athletic Brewing Run Wild IPA — ranked #44
    Athletic Brewing Run Wild IPA
    The Connecticut brewery that built a business on alcohol-free beer and outsells most craft IPAs.
    668pts
  5. Bitburger Drive — ranked #55
    Bitburger Drive
    Named for the thing it lets you do, and the biggest alcohol-free pils in Germany.
    668pts
  6. Heineken 0.0 — ranked #66
    Heineken 0.0
    The bottle that made supermarkets give alcohol-free beer its own shelf.
    565pts
  7. Guinness 0.0 — ranked #77
    Guinness 0.0
    The cold-filtered stout that keeps the cascade and the tan head without the alcohol.
    565pts
  8. Lucky Saint Unfiltered Lager — ranked #88
    Lucky Saint Unfiltered Lager
    A London brand that put alcohol-free beer on the pub taps rather than in the fridge.
    439pts
  9. Brewdog Punk AF — ranked #99
    Brewdog Punk AF
    The alcohol-free version of the IPA that started Britain's craft boom.
    0pts
  10. Paulaner Weissbier Alkoholfrei — ranked #1010
    Paulaner Weissbier Alkoholfrei
    A Munich wheat beer that keeps the banana-and-clove yeast character intact.
    0pts
  11. Erdinger Alkoholfrei — ranked #1111
    Erdinger Alkoholfrei
    Germany's isotonic wheat beer, sold in sports shops as a recovery drink.
    0pts
  12. Athletic Brewing Upside Dawn — ranked #1212
    Athletic Brewing Upside Dawn
    A golden ale at 45 calories that turns up at trailheads and after-work runs.
    0pts
  13. Corona Cero — ranked #1313
    Corona Cero
    The Olympic sponsor's zero-alcohol lager, sold with the same lime wedge.
    0pts
  14. Budweiser Zero — ranked #1414
    Budweiser Zero
    Anheuser-Busch's zero-sugar, zero-alcohol take on its flagship lager.
    0pts

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