The variety now spans craft styles such as alcohol-free IPA, non-alcoholic American Pale Ale, Amber and Golden ales with all the heart and soul of a full-bodied craft brew. Bridging the gap between alcoholic and non-alcoholic, this simple 0.5% ABV lager is infused with botanicals that are said to aid relaxation and improve brain function. Juicy tropical fruit mixes it up with grassy notes and a hit of resinous pine, all sitting on a solid foundation of four malts, while the bitter finish belies its ABV, providing the perfect retort to those who push alcohol-free beer devoid of character.

It contains four types of hops, with a focus on the relatively new US hop, Citra. As a result, it’s fruitier than the original with many of the tropical and grapefruit aromas that the Citra hop is famous for. Another exercise-themed alcohol-free beer from Mikkeller. “Energibajer” is a wheat beer but its more reminiscent of an American modern-style ale with mango and pine in the aroma and caramel mixed with tropical flavours in the taste. Featuring intricate fruity and herby flavours in the taste and aroma and a full-on mouthfeel, this isn’t a typical pale lager – actually, it’s more like a real ale. Coupled with some low-key malt flavours and a smooth mouthfeel, it’s a useful alternative if you want a break from a more complex, hoppy pale ale. Brewed to an English-style recipe, it’s low on hop aroma and bitterness with a deliciously smokey malt base.This lager is brewed with the Chaga mushroom. Unfiltered and featuring a complex aroma with caramel, toffee and earthy hops, it doesn’t have the simple characteristics of a typical pale lager. But’s a decent beer none the less.

One producer that’s boosting NA beer’s health and wellbeing credentials further is Fungtn, with its range of beers brewed with myco adaptogens – medicinal mushrooms. A little lighter than its “Stout”, Big Drop’s alcohol-free “Brown Ale” is another dark ale that features vanilla and cocoa among its flavours. This beer from Germany’s Insel (Island) brewery feels like a real treat – and that’s before you take the posh paper-wrapped bottles into account. And while it’s not as good as Brewdog’s best beers, Nanny State is better than most breweries’ alcoholic offerings. For those opting to stay away from alcohol, whatever the reason, our low-alcohol and alcohol-free range has become even more interesting, with two new additions.It features many of the features you’d expect in a standard tripel, including spicy hop aromas and loads of fruity esters in the flavour. This Aldi IPL is a pretty good example of this newer style, with low malt flavours allowing tropical mango, lemon, grapefruit and passion fruit flavours to shine. In the style of a milk stout, this beer offers a gorgeous, diverse aroma featuring coffee, cocoa, liquorice and a touch of dried fruit.

This camel-coloured and opaque pale ale has an amazing aroma featuring tropical fruits, pine and toffee. Ghost Ship Alcohol Free pours a clear amber/copper colour, with a frothy but fleeting head. Citrus dominates on the nose, which is unsurprising as Adnams uses Citra hops with aplomb, so grapefruit and lemon zest aromas abound. A touch of grassy-ness too, but on the whole if you’re a fan of fruits of the Rutaceae, you’ll be happy! Dry-hopped with Centennial and Mosaic hops, this beer starts off like a piney and citrusy ale before the cleaner flavours and aromas you’d expect from a typical pale lager come through. Lemon Aspen Pilsner from @SobahBeverages . Citrus on the nose, orange marmalade, malts. Citrus when we taste too, but it's more earthy and floral than your traditional citrus fruit. Works well in the lager free-beer.co.uk/sobah-lemon-… @FreeBeer_UK - Nov 10Stella Artois Alcohol Free maintains the high quality and exacting standards of the original Stella Artois recipe, using all-natural ingredients – just without the alcohol. East Sussex’s 200-year-old brewery Harvey’s quietly released two non-alcoholic beers to go alongside its core range of traditional ales.

And while the body and taste doesn’t hit such high standards, this is a great option if you like varied and interesting flavours in a beer. The East Kent Goldings hops give this beer an earthy, spicy character while the malts and yeast contribute peach, red apple and a touch of wholemeal bread to the flavours and aroma. The body is full and fizzy, without being aggressive, while the aroma features floral hops and biscuity malts. Hallo, Ich Bin” is Mikkeller’s attempt at an alcohol-free Berliner Weisse, a sour beer that originates from – you guessed it – Berlin. London’s Signature Brew make music-inspired beer with a mission to improve the quality of beer at gigs and festival (long overdue).

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Adnams, the Suffolk-based brewer and distiller, has launched a new alcohol free version of its best selling beer Ghost Ship Pale Ale. Created to meet the rapidly growing demand for low alcohol beer, Ghost Ship Alcohol Free has all the same flavours and aromas as Ghost Ship but is no apparition, treating pale ale lovers to 100% of the taste but at 0.5% ABV – spooky! Hazy Jane” (also known as “Hazy AF”) is Brewdog’s stab at a non-alcoholic New England India pale ale. And it’s pretty good. Fergus Fitzgerald, Head Brewer at Adnams explains: “Ghost Ship Alcohol Free is a quality beer that retains all the flavours of Ghost Ship but with almost all the alcohol removed. There are various ways to create alcohol free beers, but most of the methods either involve changing the recipe, brewing methods, or altering the fl­avours.