Non-Alcoholic Beers Query

misstearheus · 13-08-2018 11:32pm #1

Peace and greetings! :cool:

I am just wondering, does anyone know if "Non-Alcoholic" Beers are fully 100% Non-Alcoholic? Is there any smidgen of Alcohol in them at all is what I want to know? Are you safe to drive having consumed them? T.i.a. I wonder should I put this in the Food Forum perhaps?

pleas advice · 13-08-2018 11:47pm

there is some alcohol, but you'd have trouble going over the limit drinking them

Amirani · 13-08-2018 11:48pm

There would be alcohol, but you'd need to drink lots to go over the limit, they're normally <0.5%.

freshpopcorn · 13-08-2018 11:48pm

I thought this was going to be about a Boards.ie meet up.
I have being told they may be a slight trace of alcohol in non alcoholic beer but it would put you over the drink driving limit.

13-08-2018 11:50pm

Non alcoholic beer is like going down on your sister.

It might taste the same, but it’s just ****ing wrong.

pleas advice · 13-08-2018 11:59pm

you'd need to drink five 500 ml bottles to have consumed one unit of alcohol, your body can metabolise a unit of alcohol in about an hour, you'd need to be going at some pace to even catch up with what your body can process

wonski · 14-08-2018 12:06am

I mostly drink Baltika, which is pretty good, and it has 0.5 iirc.

Not a chance you can get drunk on that.

Vic_08 · 14-08-2018 3:27am

wonski wrote: »

I mostly drink Baltika, which is pretty good, and it has 0.5 iirc.

Not a chance you can get drunk on that.

It is possible that you could exceed the very low limits now in place for learners, novices and professional drivers.

wonski · 14-08-2018 3:44am

Vic_08 wrote: »

It is possible that you could exceed the very low limits now in place for learners, novices and professional drivers.

Not one of them. And still would take some effort to fail roadside test drinking 0.5% beer.

You would have to drink a crate of those in an hour, literally

Edit: There are Becks around claiming to be 0% if you are paranoid. Not as nice, though.

Regie93 · 14-08-2018 3:48am

There's still some alcohol in non-alcoholic beer. So you need to control how much are you drinking. We all need safe roads, after all :angel:

wonski · 14-08-2018 4:00am

Regie93 wrote: »

There's still some alcohol in non-alcoholic beer. So you need to control how much are you drinking. We all need safe roads, after all :angel:

Safe roads, yes.

I do drive a lot at night as a designated driver after drinking non alcoholic beverages. Don't tell me 0.5% will affect my driving because it won't.

Let's not get paranoid about the content. I like beer and drove many miles after few Baltikas or Becks.

I also have access to breathalyser similar to the one Gardai uses daily so can test it for you if needed. Not gonna pay for it, though

You pay for beers!

AttentionBebe · 14-08-2018 4:17am

Regie93 wrote: »

There's still some alcohol in non-alcoholic beer. So you need to control how much are you drinking. We all need safe roads, after all :angel:

You can't physically drink enough of it to come remotely close to being over the limit in the time it would take. It's not possible.

Regie93 · 14-08-2018 4:27am

AttentionBebe wrote: »

You can't physically drink enough of it to come remotely close to being over the limit in the time it would take. It's not possible.

Maybe I'm just a bit paranoid about this. Had a bad experience with drunk drivers in the past.

wonski · 14-08-2018 4:34am

Regie93 wrote: »

Maybe I'm just a bit paranoid about this. Had a bad experience with drunk drivers in the past.

Drunk drivers don't do non alcoholic beers. They do the opposite.

Sorry to hear about your experience, but we are the responsible ones.

Regie93 · 14-08-2018 4:51am

wonski wrote: »

Regie93 wrote: »

Maybe I'm just a bit paranoid about this. Had a bad experience with drunk drivers in the past.

Drunk drivers don't do non alcoholic beers. They do the opposite.

Sorry to hear about your experience, but we are the responsible ones.

Thanks. Guess you're right.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-08-2018 5:36am

Any I've seen are around 0.05%, not 0.5%.

BattleCorp · 14-08-2018 8:33am

Heineken have a product called 0.0. I'd hazard a guess that there is 0.0% alcohol in.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-08-2018 8:43am

BattleCorp wrote: »

Heineken have a product called 0.0. I'd hazard a guess that there is 0.0% alcohol in.

It's 0.05%.

MrCostington · 14-08-2018 8:57am

I have the odd Erdinger it's 0.5% IIRC. But main thing it it's REALLY nice, IMO.

Ashbourne hoop · 14-08-2018 9:43am

MrCostington wrote: »

I have the odd Erdinger it's 0.5% IIRC. But main thing it it's REALLY nice, IMO.

Best of a bad lot

judeboy101 · 14-08-2018 9:47am

If you got stopped by gardee and you started drinking a non alcoholic beer what would be the reaction?

JMNolan · 14-08-2018 9:49am

judeboy101 wrote: »

If you got stopped by gardee and you started drinking a non alcoholic beer what would be the reaction?

They'd probably think you're being deliberately cheeky and then they'd start checking your tyre depth, NCT, etc etc.

seamus · 14-08-2018 9:54am

A pint of 0.5%, is about 0.16 units of alcohol.

It'll take on average about 4 units of alcohol to breach the lower (0.05 BAC) limit for drink-driving offences.

That's about 25 pints of non-alcoholic.

And that's ignoring absorption and processing time; you'd want to drink all of them in two hours, at most. If you think you can drink 14 litres of liquid in two hours, then fair play.

"But any alcohol at all is bad for driving", I hear you cry. Not quite. Data indicates that the law of diminishing returns applies. Below 0.05, the difference between a completely sober driver and one who has consumed alcohol is negligible. Factors such as fatigue or distraction play a far bigger role at very low BAC levels.

Boom_Bap · 14-08-2018 10:21am

MrCostington wrote: »

I have the odd Erdinger it's 0.5% IIRC. But main thing it it's REALLY nice, IMO.

It has healthy stuff in it as well. I quite like it.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-08-2018 10:58am

I love the Heineken 0.0 but found the Erdinger vile. Shame too as I love the real stuff. Maybe I got a gammy bottle.

misstearheus · 14-08-2018 11:06am

Wow thanks for all the replies peeps. Wasn't sure whether to expect a lot of jokes and slagging or not! But sometimes AH gives informative answers and broader views on something that a specific Forum couldn't/wouldn't. Have to say have zero clue about its content but have often wondered what it's like it would I drink it.. If I ever was having a couple of them on a night out I couldn't drink, but still wanted to feel like I'm out and drinking! - would a couple of them with a point something percentage of alcohol still put me over.... But, I think what I'm gathering here, is just don't go mental on them.

Tom Dunne · 14-08-2018 11:06am

The new Guinness lager is actually quite palatable.

I really enjoyed being able to drive to nice foodie places this summer, sit out, having a beer in the sun and have no hassle driving home.

Of them all, shock horror, I found the Carlsberg one to be the most palatable.

I've also started drinking decaffeinated coffee. Must be on some sort of health kick that I don't know about.

BattleCorp · 14-08-2018 11:18am

Not that it's a reputable website or remotely close but it's claimed here that you'd need to drink 250 bottles of Heineken 0.0 to equal the alcohol in one bottle of regular Heineken.

https://www.buzz.ie/drinks/heineken-0-non-alcoholic-beer-279367

Boom_Bap · 14-08-2018 11:21am

BattleCorp wrote: »

Not that it's a reputable website or remotely close but it's claimed here that you'd need to drink 250 bottles of Heineken 0.0 to equal the alcohol in one bottle of regular Heineken.

https://www.buzz.ie/drinks/heineken-0-non-alcoholic-beer-279367

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