

The aroma is weak, but inoffensive enough. It looks a bit sad and flat in the glass. But it’s almost sugar free with just 0.1g per 100ml (0.3g per 330ml).īudweiser Zero pours clear amber with few bubbles and little head. There are 3.3g of carbs per 100ml (11g per 330ml can). Zero has half the calories of Prohibition, with 14 calories per 100ml (46 per 330ml can). These featured in the ingredients in Prohibition. So it’s perfect for those who don’t like overpowering flavours in their beer. Rice is quite common in mass-produced beer because it’s fermentable but doesn’t add as much flavour as grain like barley and wheat. A check of the ingredients confirms this – as well as the basic beer ingredients of water, barley malt and hops, Zero also contains “natural flavours” and rice. IngredientsĪs you’d expect from one of the world’s best selling beer brands, this is no craft beer. The brewery says it uses the latest technology to create a beer free from alcohol, although it hasn’t revealed its methods. It also used a brewing process that stops all of the malt fermenting.īudweiser has come up with a new recipe for Budweiser Zero and teamed up with former NBA star Dwayne Wade to design and promote it. The brewery removed the alcohol in by heating the beer in a vacuum. Prohibition was brewed to the same recipe as the alcoholic version. Now Budweiser has released a “new” version of “Prohibition”, this time more simply named Budweiser “Zero”. 10 brilliant benefits of non-alcoholic beerįast-forward almost 100 years and prohibition came back, this time as the name of Budweiser’s take on alcohol-free beer.Why you can’t get drunk on 0.5% alcohol-free beer.It fell out of favour in the late 20s when everyone was allowed to get drunk again. When prohibition hit in the US in 1920, Budweiser’s parent brewery Anheuser-Busch decided to concentrate on selling brewer’s yeast, malt extract, ice cream and the curiously named “Bevo” drink.īevo was a non-alcoholic malt drink or “near beer” that came in under 0.5% ABV to get around the laws of the time. Get tasting notes and nutritional info in this review. Budweiser “Zero” (formerly “Prohibition Brew”) is the US brewery’s 0% non-alcoholic lager.
