The best brands of vegan beers (no or low alcohol)
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
Before recycling cans, pop ringpulls back over holes. Then step on upper can tops to pinch rims together, to prevent wildlife getting trapped.
No alcohol can be 0% (even fruit or bread has a little). So 0.5% is the official percentage, best still avoided for pregnancy/nursing.
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.
Below Brew Co (includes no-alcohol stout)
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 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.
Uses a dry floor process to save water
This beer is unique in that it uses a dry floor process, that has saved over 8 million litres of water to day. It also runs on clean energy and sells in zero waste packaging.
- Lager
- Hazy
- IPA
- Amber
- Pale Ale
- Mexican lager
