Non-alcholic, sugar free cans of beer in Cork city ?

MouseMan01

Bit of a long shot. But does anyone know where I can get 0.0%, sugar free beer in Cork city.

Ever since I gave up the booze a few months ago I've been drinking lots of 0.0%'s. Worried about the effects all that sugar is having on my body.

Bradley's on North Main Street sell some 0.0%, sugar free, but it's in bottles and they're quite expensive.

Tesco sell 0.0% cans for 0.54€ each. But there's 10 grams of sugar in each one.

the beer revolu

MouseMan01 wrote: »

Bit of a long shot. But does anyone know where I can get 0.0%, sugar free beer in Cork city.

Ever since I gave up the booze a few months ago I've been drinking lots of 0.0%'s. Worried about the effects all that sugar is having on my body.

Bradley's on North Main Street sell some 0.0%, sugar free, but it's in bottles and they're quite expensive.

Tesco sell 0.0% cans for 0.54€ each. But there's 10 grams of sugar in each one.

Do you mean with no added, refined sugar or do you mean with no sugars?

Very few beers have added sugar.
I can't see any beers not having any "sugars" in them.
Beer is made, by converting starches in malted barley into sugars and fermenting them - whether alcoholic or no alcoholic, there will always be residual sugars.

I'm not sure what you are looking for actually exists.

sharingan

The beer making process converts barley starches into a range of sugars, with the most complex sugars (like maltotriose and maltodextrin) surviving into the finished beer, while all the simpler ones get fermented into alcohol.

One way of making 0.0% (or 0.5%) beer is to make a regular beer and vacuum evaporate the alcohol away, so this style will leave all those complex sugars behind.

But they wont have table sugar/sucrose added.

RINO87

Not cans, but the Perlenabcher 0.0 from Lidl is quite nice, 1.4g of Sugar per 100ml so 4.62g in a 330ml bottle, is as cheap as they come at around 3.50 for 6.

The Baltika 0% I find to be the best of the bunch tho - O'Donovans usually have it. Not sure of sugar content.

Harika

There are several transmitters of taste: alcohol, sugar and fat.
Without alcohol, taste is transported by sugar instead. Fat in beer makes no sense.
Closest you will get is brewdog nanny state.

https://steadydrinker.com/articles/calories-in-alcohol-free-beer/

sharingan

Harika wrote: »

There are several transmitters of taste: alcohol, sugar and fat.
Without alcohol, taste is transported by sugar instead.

This isn't how taste works, and the article you link doesn't go into further detail about the point you were trying to make.

Harika

sharingan wrote: »

This isn't how taste works, and the article you link doesn't go into further detail about the point you were trying to make.

That's from a different article and the details are not important here, the article is most interesting for the different beers with sugar alcohols. Nanny brewstate you definitely get in town

MouseMan01

Thanks guys.

There is this beer for sale in Bradley's... 0 sugar.

I only drink 500ml unfortunately...

Thanks.

corks finest

RINO87 wrote: »

Not cans, but the Perlenabcher 0.0 from Lidl is quite nice, 1.4g of Sugar per 100ml so 4.62g in a 330ml bottle, is as cheap as they come at around 3.50 for 6.

The Baltika 0% I find to be the best of the bunch tho - O'Donovans usually have it. Not sure of sugar content.

Never knew Lidl sold 00 thanks

corks finest

RINO87 wrote: »

Not cans, but the Perlenabcher 0.0 from Lidl is quite nice, 1.4g of Sugar per 100ml so 4.62g in a 330ml bottle, is as cheap as they come at around 3.50 for 6.

The Baltika 0% I find to be the best of the bunch tho - O'Donovans usually have it. Not sure of sugar content.

Beck blue is gorgeous and not sweet in anyway but the nearest I’ve gotten to anything like alcohol since I stopped drinking years ago( worth a try)

RINO87

corks finest wrote: »

Never knew Lidl sold 00 thanks

They also do alcohol free Weiss beer and an IPA

cantalach

MouseMan01 wrote: »

Bit of a long shot. But does anyone know where I can get 0.0%, sugar free beer in Cork city.

Ever since I gave up the booze a few months ago I've been drinking lots of 0.0%'s. Worried about the effects all that sugar is having on my body.

Bradley's on North Main Street sell some 0.0%, sugar free, but it's in bottles and they're quite expensive.

Tesco sell 0.0% cans for 0.54€ each. But there's 10 grams of sugar in each one.

Is there much sugar in the 0.0% beer? The label on Heineken Zero says 70 kcal per bottle. By contrast, the same volume of Coca Cola is 220 kcal.

cantalach

Slightly off topic perhaps but a few of the brands mentioned above are not alcohol free. This ability to call it “alcohol free” if it is <= 0.5% is being abused. Depending on your reason for giving up alcohol, that level could be problematic.

Just to be clear, I’m not having a go at the posters who mentioned those brands! Just having a bit of a rant against the drinks industry.

MouseMan01

cantalach wrote: »

Is there much sugar in the 0.0% beer? The label on Heineken Zero says 70 kcal per bottle. By contrast, the same volume of Coca Cola is 220 kcal.

Yeah tons.

Anywhere between 10-20 grams per 500 ml.

hurleronditch

MouseMan01 wrote: »

Yeah tons.

Anywhere between 10-20 grams per 500 ml.

Heineken zero has 6.5g sugar per 500ml. Best of luck in your search but looking for beer without alcohol and an artificially low sugar content makes me wonder the purpose of drinking beer at all, but to each their own.

cantalach

hurleronditch wrote: »

Heineken zero has 6.5g sugar per 500ml.

Yes, nutritional label attached. This works out at 4.29g sugar in a standard 330ml bottle. At very small weights, it’s easier for people to relate to teaspoons. 4.29g is almost exactly 1tsp sugar (4.23g). That’s not tons.

hurleronditch

cantalach wrote: »

Yes, nutritional label attached. This works out at 4.29g sugar in a standard 330ml bottle. At very small weights, it’s easier for people to relate to teaspoons. 4.29g is almost exactly 1tsp sugar (4.23g). That’s not tons.

Yep, agreed. I understand everyone has their motives and all, and there are different types of sugar and all that, but a whole 6 pack of Heineken Zeros has roughly the same amount of sugar as a large red apple.

Also, if it’s weight gain/loss the op is worried about, sugar level is irrelevant, all that matters is the calories (albeit the two are likely closely linked in quantum per beer)

RINO87

cantalach wrote: »

Slightly off topic perhaps but a few of the brands mentioned above are not alcohol free. This ability to call it “alcohol free” if it is <= 0.5% is being abused. Depending on your reason for giving up alcohol, that level could be problematic.

Just to be clear, I’m not having a go at the posters who mentioned those brands! Just having a bit of a rant against the drinks industry.

Correct - the "No IPA" in Lidl is 0.5% with about 11.8 grams of sugar per 330ml
The alcohol free weissbier doenst say what alcohol content it is but sugar is 13.5g per 500ml bottle.

Looking at all this it seems the Perlenbacher Pils 0.0 has the lowest sugar content (and is the nicest IMO)!

https://steadydrinker.com/ handy resource for low/no-alcohol beers. I still enjoy "real" beers, but given the choice I would take an alcohol free beer any day over a soft drink, always have a bunch in the fridge.

MouseMan01

corks finest wrote: »

Beck blue is gorgeous and not sweet in anyway but the nearest I’ve gotten to anything like alcohol since I stopped drinking years ago( worth a try)

Thanks corks finest. I've switched to becks blue :-)

Harika

cantalach wrote: »

Slightly off topic perhaps but a few of the brands mentioned above are not alcohol free. This ability to call it “alcohol free” if it is <= 0.5% is being abused. Depending on your reason for giving up alcohol, that level could be problematic.

Just to be clear, I’m not having a go at the posters who mentioned those brands! Just having a bit of a rant against the drinks industry.

I agree that this is misleading but they still have less alcohol in it than orange juice. https://lincoln.ne.gov/city/police/rhc/page30.html#:~:text=In%20reality%2C%20there%20is%20more,can%20be%20less%20than%20this.
Tbh don't know the effect this low amount has on recovering alcoholics. Still in the worst case, you need to drink 8 pints of non alcoholic beer to get the effect of one alcoholic one. Consumed at the same time frame as the alcoholic one.
What annoys me is that I can't buy non alcoholic beer before 10:30

cantalach

Harika wrote: »

I agree that this is misleading but they still have less alcohol in it than orange juice. https://lincoln.ne.gov/city/police/rhc/page30.html#:~:text=In%20reality%2C%20there%20is%20more,can%20be%20less%20than%20this.
Tbh don't know the effect this low amount has on recovering alcoholics. Still in the worst case, you need to drink 8 pints of non alcoholic beer to get the effect of one alcoholic one. Consumed at the same time frame as the alcoholic one.
What annoys me is that I can't buy non alcoholic beer before 10:30

Yes, I read an article 15+ years ago about how much alcohol was in a bottle of M&S fresh squeezed OJ five days after opening. I forget the exact numbers measured at the time but the advice was that it was high enough for recovering alcoholics to avoid it.

Re opening hours, one of my kids works in a supermarket, and they require age ID to purchase Heineken Zero. Apparently the rationale is so as not to normalise consumption of beer, regardless of whether it is leaded or unleaded.

the beer revolu

cantalach wrote: »

Re opening hours, one of my kids works in a supermarket, and they require age ID to purchase Heineken Zero. Apparently the rationale is so as not to normalise consumption of beer, regardless of whether it is leaded or unleaded.

I'm fairly sure that these policies are self imposed and not the law.

smellyoldboot

MouseMan01 wrote: »

Bit of a long shot. But does anyone know where I can get 0.0%, sugar free beer in Cork city.

Ever since I gave up the booze a few months ago I've been drinking lots of 0.0%'s. Worried about the effects all that sugar is having on my body.

Bradley's on North Main Street sell some 0.0%, sugar free, but it's in bottles and they're quite expensive.

Tesco sell 0.0% cans for 0.54€ each. But there's 10 grams of sugar in each one.

Sounds like you should try tap water...

corks finest

MouseMan01 wrote: »

Thanks corks finest. I've switched to becks blue :-)

I have it once in a while and each time it’s good , preferably watching a comedy with my 17 year old or a match, down time

MouseMan01

smellyoldboot wrote: »

Sounds like you should try tap water...

Yeah probably. I was never a hard drinker. But I drink way more non-alcoholics than I did beers.

Something about a cold beer in the afternoon gets me excited. Plus with covid and everything I think its good to treat yourself.

Can't believe that bars in cork charge 6€ for a bottle of 0.0%. Rip off.

MouseMan01

Harika wrote: »

I agree that this is misleading but they still have less alcohol in it than orange juice. https://lincoln.ne.gov/city/police/rhc/page30.html#:~:text=In%20reality%2C%20there%20is%20more,can%20be%20less%20than%20this.
Tbh don't know the effect this low amount has on recovering alcoholics. Still in the worst case, you need to drink 8 pints of non alcoholic beer to get the effect of one alcoholic one. Consumed at the same time frame as the alcoholic one.
What annoys me is that I can't buy non alcoholic beer before 10:30

Yeah apparently in prison they put a mixture of fruit juices next to a radiator for a few days and get drunk on the fermented sugars/alcohol.

zilog_jones

cantalach wrote: »

Slightly off topic perhaps but a few of the brands mentioned above are not alcohol free. This ability to call it “alcohol free” if it is <= 0.5% is being abused. Depending on your reason for giving up alcohol, that level could be problematic.

Just to be clear, I’m not having a go at the posters who mentioned those brands! Just having a bit of a rant against the drinks industry.

Many soft drinks and fruit juices contain trace levels of alcohol, and they are not required to disclose the alcohol content at all. Especially those which use fermented fruit juice like Cidona and Fentimans Curiosity Cola are likely to have something closer to 0.5%.

cantalach

zilog_jones wrote: »

Many soft drinks and fruit juices contain trace levels of alcohol, and they are not required to disclose the alcohol content at all. Especially those which use fermented fruit juice like Cidona and Fentimans Curiosity Cola are likely to have something closer to 0.5%.

Yes, agreed, and this was discussed already above. But at least Cidona and Fentiman’s don’t have “Alcohol Free” written across the front or market themselves by pretending to be something they’re not.

cantalach

Tried the Becks Blue over the weekend. Really liked it! And only half the kcal of the HZ. Unfortunately though, herself found it a bit hoppy so we’re gone back to the HZ. One small complaint about the Becks is the tiny bottle: just 275ml vs the usual 330ml.

corks finest

cantalach wrote: »

Tried the Becks Blue over the weekend. Really liked it! And only half the kcal of the HZ. Unfortunately though, herself found it a bit hoppy so we’re gone back to the HZ. One small complaint about the Becks is the tiny bottle: just 275ml vs the usual 330ml.

Yeah bottle small but if ice cold it lasts a bit had a bottle of Peroni. 00 at the weekend; nice

xabi

Bargain I think https://www.facebook.com/1599547773618857/posts/2780814855492137/?d=n

JP Liz V1

Dealz have Heineken no alcohol not sure the sugar content though

corks finest

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Dealz have Heineken no alcohol not sure the sugar content though

Tried it.,,,,,,,,,,, not for me in the tin anyway

corks finest

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Dealz have Heineken no alcohol not sure the sugar content though

Tried it.,,,,,,,,,,, not for me in the tin anyway

cantalach

Sipping a Birra Moretti Zero atm and liking it a lot. Whereas the Becks Blue is just hoppy, this has a bit of a microbrew thing going on...little more interesting. It’s a legit zero too, containing 0.05% b/v.

corks finest

RINO87 wrote: »

Not cans, but the Perlenabcher 0.0 from Lidl is quite nice, 1.4g of Sugar per 100ml so 4.62g in a 330ml bottle, is as cheap as they come at around 3.50 for 6.

The Baltika 0% I find to be the best of the bunch tho - O'Donovans usually have it. Not sure of sugar content.

That Baltika expensive?

corks finest

cantalach wrote: »

Sipping a Birra Moretti Zero atm and liking it a lot. Whereas the Becks Blue is just hoppy, this has a bit of a microbrew thing going on...little more interesting. It’s a legit zero too, containing 0.05% b/v.

Must give it a lash, o like the beck’s as I don’t get it too often but relish a cold one when I can get the TV to myself once in the blue moon

RINO87

corks finest wrote: »

That Baltika expensive?

Cant remember exactly, but its less than 2 quid for a 500ml. Aldi seem to have it the odd time too. Really nice stuff.

corks finest

RINO87 wrote: »

Cant remember exactly, but its less than 2 quid for a 500ml. Aldi seem to have it the odd time too. Really nice stuff.

I’ll treat myself and thanks, hard to find any decent reviewers ref non alcoholic drink sold here, so I guess I’ll have to sample them all