Non alcoholic beer in work

Lord Derpington

I was talking with some friends about this and some of our favourite drinks are beer.
Where other people would love to have a can of coke or a cup of tea I would love to have a non alcoholic beer instead like a nice bottle of Paulaner or similar.

The question we came to was this, if other people are allowed to have a can of coke or orange etc in the work place is it acceptable to a have a bottle of non alcoholic beer?

After all it is just a cold beverage like any other so what's the difference?
I know perception would be a big thing, but I would like to get AH view on this.

krudler

dont see why it shouldnt be, its the same as drinking any other non alchoholic drink.

Ghandee

Lord Derpington wrote: »

I was talking with some friends about this and some of our favourite drinks are beer.
Where other people would love to have a can of coke or a cup of tea I would love to have a non alcoholic beer instead like a nice bottle of Paulaner or similar.

The question we came to was this, if other people are allowed to have a can of coke or orange etc in the work place is it acceptable to a have a bottle of non alcoholic beer?

After all it is just a cold beverage like any other so what's the difference?
I know perception would be a big thing, but I would like to get AH view on this.

No difference whatsoever.

It would be the same as bringing in a can of Cidona, or a bottle of Shloer. (Magners, and wine, but alcohol free)

Anyone that frowns on you for bringing in a cold drink (which is a cold soft drink) needs to get over themselves imo.

ash23

I don't see why it would be a problem other than you'd have to go around explaining that it's non alcoholic or else people will think you're a lush, HR will probably call you in for an intervention etc etc.
For me it wouldn't be worth it.

Genghiz Cohen

I think you may have a problem...

jester77

Move over here to Germany & you can have a REAL beer with your lunch

pickarooney

I don't see the problem with normal beer for lunch but then again I don't live in a country with a ****ed-up attitude to alcohol any more.

Miaoww

krudler

ash23 wrote: »

I don't see why it would be a problem other than you'd have to go around explaining that it's non alcoholic or else people will think you're a lush, HR will probably call you in for an intervention etc etc.
For me it wouldn't be worth it.

it'd be worth it just to get called into the office, and bring the beer in with you

ash23

krudler wrote: »

it'd be worth it just to get called into the office, and bring the beer in with you

That's true!! Our HR manager is a joke, she's so uptight. I'd nearly do it for the craic

EL_Loco

Would you smell like beer for the rest of the day though? just wondering, not too well up on the non-alcoholic stuff.

If you're "customer facing" having a whiff of beer off you probably isn't ideal.

krudler

ash23 wrote: »

That's true!! Our HR manager is a joke, she's so uptight. I'd nearly do it for the craic

being uptight is a prequisite for working HR in fairness.

Lord Derpington

EL_Loco wrote: »

Would you smell like beer for the rest of the day though? just wondering, not too well up on the non-alcoholic stuff.

If you're "customer facing" having a whiff of beer off you probably isn't ideal.

It would still smell like beer yes, but I'm not talking about cracking open a 6pack and drinking the whole lot.
More like one beer instead of a cola.

It would probably be a problem if your job was customer facing granted, especially from a perception view of customers/clients.
However if you are solely in a back office or not dealing with customers should it be an issue?

AngryBollix

Its gin or nothing.

You need something to dull the pain

EL_Loco

Lord Derpington wrote: »

However if you are solely in a back office or not dealing with customers should it be an issue?

Probably not tbh, but logic and the workplace diverge on a regular basis.

Auguste Comte

Eeww alcohol free beer...

Like going down on your sister,


Tastes the same but you just know its wrong.

py2006

There is nothing wrong as it is alcohol free but I doubt any manager or boss would allow it. It doesn't look great.

Yawns

As long as you don't have to interact with customers face to face I wouldn't see a problem with it. Wouldn't want a customer to get the wrong idea. In office or such then work away.

For Forks Sake

I've always wondered what the reaction of a garda would be if I was stopped with an open non-alcoholic beer in the car?

Babybuff

Lord Derpington wrote: »

like a nice bottle of Paulaner or similar.

Erdinger non alcoholic is lovely, I find Paulaner a bit heavy to drink on it's own.

MagicMarker

Non alcoholic beer isn't even non alcoholic, it just has very very very very little alcohol in it.

Triangla

On a technical note all alcohol free beer has a very small percentage of alcohol, usually around 0.5%.

Although a tiny percentage you would still technically be drinking alcohol at work.

Agent Smith

Step 1,
bring in non Alcho beer

step 2.
once its accepted, empty and fill with regular beer

Step 3
Drink

Step 4
Sign on