Sorry but I have to correct you. A beer with 2.6% is not a non-alcoholic beer, it is a low-alcohol beer.
The legal definition does change by country, but nowhere that I'm aware of allows more than 0.5% alcohol-by-volume for beers described as 'non-alcoholic' or 'alcohol-free'. In the UK non-alcoholic is literally non-alcoholic, although in the rest of the EU 'non-alcoholic' is up to 0.5% ABV. The USA also allows a maximum of 0.5%.
You're right to check the label, but no 'non-alcoholic' beers are 2.6%.
Many recovering alcoholics happily and successfully drink 0.5% drinks, but obviously some choose not to. It has to be a personal issue. It's impossible to become drunk on 0.5% ABV drinks.
I've been drinking them (and selling them at The Alcohol-Free Shop) for nearly 10 years and I've been sober for over 10 years.
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Sorry but I have to correct you. A beer with 2.6% is not a non-alcoholic beer, it is a low-alcohol beer.
The legal definition does change by country, but nowhere that I'm aware of allows more than 0.5% alcohol-by-volume for beers described as 'non-alcoholic' or 'alcohol-free'. In the UK non-alcoholic is literally non-alcoholic, although in the rest of the EU 'non-alcoholic' is up to 0.5% ABV. The USA also allows a maximum of 0.5%.
You're right to check the label, but no 'non-alcoholic' beers are 2.6%.
Many recovering alcoholics happily and successfully drink 0.5% drinks, but obviously some choose not to. It has to be a personal issue. It's impossible to become drunk on 0.5% ABV drinks.
I've been drinking them (and selling them at The Alcohol-Free Shop) for nearly 10 years and I've been sober for over 10 years.
January 14, 2015 - 12:42amThis Comment
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