28 January 2022

The Best Non-Alcoholic Beers for 2022

Which are the most popular non-alcoholic beers and other beverages according to Pint Please users? And why are the non-alcoholic beverages so popular right now?

The markets of non-alcoholic beers and other beverages have been raising specially over the past ten years. It seems that the trend is here to stay. While the sale of non-alcoholic beverages has accelerated, also the range of different types of beverages has widened considerably in recent years.

What is the phenomenon behind the popularity of non-alcoholic beverages?

There are, of course, lots of reasons to reduce consumption of alcohol. You may be concerned about your health or consumption of money, or got mental issues with alcohol etc. But there is still one thing that every reducer has in common. We need alternatives that taste as well. To not consume alcohol doesn’t mean that you should drink only water. And don’t worry, there are plenty of alternatives!

A Wellness Trend?

Author Ruby Warrington has given a name for a wellness trend behind the raise of consumption of non-alcoholic products. It’s called sober curious, which doesn’t mean total refusal from alcohol, but is a way to try to avoid bad feelings (both mental and physical) that alcohol may produce in some persons. It also calls for questioning old traditions that usually include social pressure to drink alcohol.

In addition to this there are also plenty of low-alcoholic products hitting shelves right now. An other reason to avoid alcohol has also to do with wellness and self-care. To avoid the consumption of alcohol or getting drunk isn’t always the thing, but the calories that beverages normally contain considerably because of alcohol.

Beer is a low-calorie drink itself, because it hardly contains sugars. That’s why low-alcoholic beer is again lighter version for those who are, for example, watching their waistline. The amount of calories is quite strictly bound to the amount of alcohol.

What kind of beverage will you choose?

When you’ve decided, will you have a non-alcoholic beverage or a low-alcoholic one, there’s only left to explore the wide range of different types of drinks and find the one that fits your taste.

We have brought here the statistics of the best non-alcoholic beers for example. These stats tell which were the most popular non-alcoholic (0.0–0.5%) beverages in 2021 according to Pint Please users, so that you can find out, where to start.

The Best Non-Alcoholic Beers

The best non-alcoholic beers seem to come from Denmark. Apart from the first place, there are five Danish beers on the top-ten.

	Beer	Brewery	%	Style	Average Rate	Country of Origin
1.	Limbo Series: Flemish Primitive Ale With Raspberry	Mikkeller	0.3%	Sour Red / Brown	3.39	Denmark
2.	Weird Weather Non-Alcoholic IPA	Mikkeller	0.3%	New England IPA / Hazy IPA	3.3	Denmark
3.	Special Effects Hoppy Lager	Brooklyn Brewery	0.4%	Amber Lager / Vienna Lager	3.28	U.S.
4.	Henry Gose Lightly	Mikkeller	0.3%	Grodziskie / Gose / Lichtenhainer	3.27	Denmark
5.	Implosion	To Øl	0.3%	Pale Ale – New England	3.2	Denmark
6.	Krombacher Weizen Alkoholfrei	Krombacher Brauerei	0.5%	Hefeweizen	3.18	Germany
7.	1664 Blanc Alcohol Free	Kronenbourg (Carlsberg)	0.5%	Wheat Beer / Wheat Ale	3.16	France
8.	Easy Rider Bulldog	Gotlands Bryggeri (Spendrups)	0.4%	India Pale Ale	3.14	Sweden
9.	Limbo Series: Flemish Primitive Ale With Yuzu Fruit	Mikkeller	0.3%	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	3.13	Denmark
10.	Drink’in The Sun	Mikkeller	0.3%	Wheat Beer / Wheat Ale	3.12	Denmark
11.	Special Effects IPA	Brooklyn Brewery	0.4%	India Pale Ale	3.12	U.S.
12.	N.A.P.A Non Alco Pale Ale	Sigtuna Brygghus	0.5%	American Pale Ale	3.11	Sweden
13.	Superb-Owl	Uiltje Brewing Co	0.2%	India Pale Ale	3.06	Netherlands
14.	Original Long Drink Ginger 0%	Hartwall (Royal Unibrew)	0.0%	Long Drink	3.06	Finland
15.	Fassbrause Lemon	A. Le Coq (Olvi)	0.0%	Radler / Shandy	3.03	Estonia
16.	Crisp Radler Sitrus	Sinebrychoff (Carlsberg Group)	0.0%	Radler / Shandy	2.99	Finland
17.	TsingTao Zero Alcohol	Tsingtao Brewery (Tsingtao)	0.0%	Premium Lager	2.98	China
18.	Guinness Draught 0.0	Guinness (Diageo)	0.0%	Dry Stout	2.96	Ireland
19.	Malmgård Oat Ale	Malmgårdin Panimo – Malmgard Brewery	0.5%	Pale Ale – International	2.91	Finland
20.	Stella Artois Alcohol Free / 0.0% / Non Alcohol / N.A.	Brasserie Artois (AB InBev)	0.0%	Premium Lager	2.9	Belgium

It seems that the secret to the popularity of Danish breweries Mikkeller and To Øl, is to trust in well-spiced beers, such like sour beers, NEIPAs and gose-styled beers. On the top-ten there is also Brooklyn Brewery‘s well-known product Special Effects, which is a hoppy amber-style lager.

What is also remarkable is that there aren’t any totally non-alcoholic beers (0.0%) on the top-ten. Actually the best beverage with 0.0% alcohol is Finnish ginger-spiced long drink Original Long Drink Ginger 0%.

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