No or low alcohol artisan beers (all vegan-friendly)

Lucky Saint beer

If you like a beer but without the alcohol, here are good brands beyond supermarket fodder. No alcohol can be 0% (even fruit or bread has a little).

  • 0.5% is the official percentage, best still avoided for pregnancy/nursing.
  • For bottles, keep lids on to avoid attracting ants, bees and wasps. Rinse glass bottles before recycling, it’s okay to keep caps on.
  • Before recycling cans, rinse then pop ring-pulls back over holes. Then step on upper cans to pinch rims together (this stops wildlife getting accidentally trapped).

Do you drink too much booze?

Alcohol advice is pretty confusing with units etc. Here’s a quick plain English guide for average adults:

  • 1 pint of beer or 1 glass of wine each day (one day alcohol-free)
  • 2 measures of spirits daily (again one day alcohol-free)

Note this is either/or (not all at once!)

So in plain English (you can mix and match these):

In a week have no more than:

  • 6 pints of beer or
  • 6 glasses of wine or
  • 14 measures spirits

Of course if you are having low-alcohol or no-alcohol alternatives, you can drink more. And that’s where  no or low alcohol drinks are helpful.

Lucky Saint (includings a version on draught)

Lucky Saint beer

Lucky Saint is brewed to German standards. Using just four ingredients, you can find this vegan beer in stores everywhere. It’s sold in glass bottles or cans. You can also find it on draught in pubs.

Choose from:

  • Unfiltered lager
  • Hazy IPA
  • Lemon lager
  • Lime & sea salt lager

Changing Tides (made with upcycled bread waste)

Toast Brewing changing tides beer

Changing Tides is by Toast Brewing, a brand that uses up bread waste, and donates profits to help food waste charities. This beer is flavoured with citrus and spice, malted barley and English hops.

Also try Shift Happens, another 0.5% pale ale from an organic Gloucestershire brewery.

Below Brew Co (a nice range including stout)

Below Brew Co

Below Brew CO is a range of quality artisan vegan beers, with no alcohol. All in beautifully designed cans, and there is a vegan stout, as a locally-made no-alcohol Guiness alternative.

  • New England IPA
  • Pale ale
  • Gluten-free lager
  • Hoppy Pilsner
  • Pale ale
  • Pastry stout

Small Beer Co (low alcohol beers from London)

Small Beer Co

Small Beer Co is a good brand of vegan low alcohol beer, made in London.  These beers spend at least 6 weeks lagering for flavour profiles, and are also available in mini-kegs for parties or pubs.

Small Beer Co

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