Poll question: Do you drink non-alcoholic beer?

Poll result (13 votes) Sometimes, sure. (2 votes) Vote What's the point? (11 votes) Vote

The Simpsons have eviscerated the ridiculous concept of non-alcoholic beer over the years.

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2) And anyhow he's stupid"
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It's basically non alcoholic. It's good. I usually drink it those weekends when I'm at the crib alone and not doing shit or if I have my kid.

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real alcohol plus that stuff = nodding off at the bar within a half hour

... I wouldn't turn one down that was offered to me.

I mean, I genuinely like the taste of a good beer, but even then I have to admit a large part of the appeal.....even for a GOOD tasting beer....is the accompanying buzz! If I'm going the non-alcohol route I'd rather just drink soda, juice, or water.
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but I haven't had any since, and that was 5 years ago lol



at the end of the day, though...

but non-alcoholic beer beer?
I ain't got time for that foolishness.

Redd's, Johnny Appleseed, Woodchuck, Angry Orchard, all those are greatness to me. I always drank apple cider growing up anyway, so it's perfect.

Nothin' on you or anybody that drinks it. It's irrational, I know.



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>Redd's, Johnny Appleseed, Woodchuck, Angry Orchard, all those
>are greatness to me. I always drank apple cider growing up
>anyway, so it's perfect.

quote-real-unquote hard cider is really dry, almost like a white wine with an appleish flavor and less alcohol. I've done I think three batches of homebrew and they all came out totally dry, 7-10%

So if my understanding is correct, most of the sweet hard ciders (the one you mentioned plus Magner's, Strongbow, etc.) either stop fermentation at the desired balance, or kill off the yeast after fermentation and then 'backsweeten' by adding sugar or unfermented apple juice/cider to it.

There's been a huge expansion in cider on the tails of craft beer's saturation of the marketplace; my favorite beer bar now has a permanent draft cider section... today's list is
Big Hill Little Round Hop

Easy Eve Hoppy Cyser
Spire Pear Cider
de Christian Drouin Pays' d Auger
Trabanco Sidra
Big Hill Summer Scrumpy
Fuchshof German Most
Stone and Key Apple Brandy Barrel Aged Cider

They tend to have a balance of the sweet and dry ciders available.

Seasonal, so find some now

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it's not great, but probably better than the average macro adjunct lager... at least it's malty.

looks like they have a new hefeweizen/shandy NA as well, would probably be better: http://www.paulaner.us/en-US/products/weizen-radler-non-alcoholic

we usually had some on hand during the pregnancies.

Erdinger is the best one I've had:
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/703/7211/

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1/3 of the world's beer will be produced by the same corporation.

Wild!