# What is the best non-alcoholic beer?

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

*By YPB Team · Published September 15, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-non-alcoholic-beer*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

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

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