i.e. in your opinion, what is?
We have a 60th birthday party to go to tonight away on the far side of Belfast. We're only going for a short time and I hate the thought of paying £30-£40 in taxis (assuming you get any given the night it is) there and back. So I've offered to drive.
But rather than having the obligatory 1 beer and then looking awkward for the next 2 hours I thought I might bring a 4-pack of something non-alcoholic along with me to 'fit in' a little more.
Any suggestions? I see Erdinger do a non-alcoholic weissbeer. Anyone tried it?
Or is this an exercise in futility and I should just man up and drink a coke?
-Barry
Personally never found a non alcoholic beer that I could drink. go for the coke :(
On occasion I've had the erdinger and its a decent drink.
I like the erdinger and would drink a fair bit of it. I got the 0% cobra once and thought it was great and could then never find it again!
Would you completely abstain? That 2.8% Tolly English Ale in Tesco isn't bad.
The German one's are generally pretty good.
Warfsteiner at a push, but Erdinger's is pretty good.
Thread just made me remember of my days as a young 'un (11-14) being allowed L.A Beer....was horrid stuff
Thanks for the replies, guys.
I'll have a look for the Erdinger in my local Winemark.
Failing that I'll just show up at the party with a big 2-litre bottle of red lemonade and be the envy of everyone.
-Barry
don't go. no point.
The Vineyard used to do it in a gift pack with a fancy Alkohol Frei glass.
I thin there are generally 2 types of NA beer.
0% and 0.5%
I stand to be corrected but...
0% is alc-removed and forced carbed.
0.5% is either alc-removed to a point, then force carbed or bottle-conditioned with added yeast and sugars.
The 0.5% ones are somewhat palateable, 0% I find are not.
I quite like the becks one myself
Quote from: LordEoin on December 20, 2013, 08:11:53 PM
I quite like the becks one myself
That stuff is terrible, the smell of it especially.
Paulaner N/A is the nicest I've had. It's hard to get N/A beers that don't have a "cooked corn" flavour off them though. Baltica 0 is grand as well.
Avoid Fruh N/A as well.
yeah, well... I suppose I sometimes find pleasure in the smaller things in life like cans of carling, finding a nest, strippers, snow, sunsets, etc.
What I like about the becks is that t tastes like becks.
ackoholfrei erdinger, while drinkable tastes kinda odd..
Well, in the end Winemark only had Becks and Bavaria N/A so I opted for the Bavaria. Not unpleasant, would be the best I can say.
Had about 5 of them until they started to run through me and I just had to accept that the psychological thing of having something resembling beer in your had at a party doesn't really work. I peaked in the first five minutes and spent the rest of the time trying to stay awake and needing the toilet :-X
On a more bizarre and tragic note, the people having the party had to apologise for having no proper party food. They'd been keeping it in the fridge at a friend's house a couple of streets away but couldn't get to it because the whole street was cordened off due to someone being murdered earlier in the evening ???
I'll stick to the big 2L bottle of red lemonade, a few chicken wings in the back pocket and a sound alibi next time.
Cheers for all the help, lads :)
-Barry
Schneider Weisse Alkoholfrei is very tasty and i actually like drinking it. paulaner is drinkable, the rest arent great or terrible
The German's definitely make the least worst alcohol free beer. SW's ok - i really hate the ones that are basically unfermented wort. :P
Talking of kids and low alcohol beer, remember being in Yalta, watching 10 year old russian kids drinking baltika 0 from the bottle, didn't feel quite right.
Billy Connolly advertising Kaliber signed the death nell of his usefulness in comedy in my opinion. i.e. I'm gonnae be shit from nae awn, but dinnae blame me, blame the lack ey alcohol.
That and the bein' married to an ex-comedy sexologist whose goanne indulge me in aal ma wee jobbies.
-Barry
P.s. grannies and wellies hahahahahaha!
Coke with a Guinness head. I was reared on the stuff.
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