Every year, the world beer awards are organized. The vast majority of the award-winning beers contain alcohol, but year after year more and more non-alcoholic beers are being praised, or new categories are being added to let non-alcoholic beers compete against each other.
In the categories ‘light’ and ‘low alcohol’ we came across a few beers that did contain alcohol, after filtering out the list of winners, 28 beers with 0.5% alcohol or less remained. In the list below you will find an overview of all winners per category, with a bit of extra information per beer and a clickthrough to the website of the beer.
When you come across a beer from this list in the local store, you know for sure that you will not be disappointed.
Dark Beer – Low Strength
Mönchshof Naturtrüb’s Alkoholfrei
Country: Germany
Award: Country Winner
Brewery: Mönchschof
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 21kcal/100ml
A naturally cloudy, unfiltered beer with a mild taste.
Flavoured beer – Low Alcohol
Franziskaner Alkoholfrei Blutorange
Country: Germany
Award: Country Winner
Brewery: Franziskaner Weissbier
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 26kcal/100ml
a blend of 55% alcoholfree Franziskaner Weisse and 45% juice of blood oranges
Hachenburger Radler Alkoholfrei
Country: Germany
Award: Gold medal
Brouwerij: Hachenburger Pils
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 16kcal/100ml
A refreshing Radler made with 100% natural lemon juice, perfect to drink after a workout.
Franziskaner Alkoholfrei Zitrone
Country: Germany
Award: Silver medal
Brewery: Franziskaner Weissbier
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 31kcal/100ml
A mix of 55% alcoholfree beer and 45% lemonade.
Surreal Brewing Company: Non-Alcoholic Red IPA
Country: USA
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Surreal Brewing Company
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 13kcal/100ml
A triple hopped beer with a complex taste. Notes of lemon, peach and mango.
International Lager – Light
Country: Belgium
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Alken Maes
Alcohol: 0,0%
Calories: 20kcal/100ml
The alcoholfree version of Maes Pils, based on the alcoholic beer from which the alcohol was removed.
Country: Czech Republic
Award: Silver medal
Brewery: Samson
Alcohol: 0,5%
Calories: 16kcal/100ml
An alcoholfree lager from the Czech Republic that has been known there since the ’70s as ‘the beer for drivers’
Country: Germany
Award: Gold Medal
Brewery: Clausthaler
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 26kcal/100ml
A dry-hopped beer to which flavoury hops are added after fermentation.
Country: Germany
Award: Bronze Medal
Brewery: Clausthaler
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 13kcal/100ml
Related to the Clausthaler Unfiltered, but with a more pronounced malt taste and a bit darker.
Country: Japan
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Suntory Beer Ltd.
Alcohol: 0,0%
Calories: 0kcal/100ml !!
Suntory All Free is a Japanese lager that is the first in the world to contain zero calories besides no alcohol
Country: The Netherlands
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Koninklijke Grolsch
Alcohol: 0,0%
Calories: 23kcal/100ml
This lager contains 0,0% alcohol and is brewed in the Netherlands with two hop varieties and according to the latest brewing techniques.
Country: Spain
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Moritz
Alcohol: 0,0%
Calories: 17kcal/100ml
Alcoholfree lager from Barcelona with a distinct taste from adding Saaz hops.
Country: Spain
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Mahou
Alcohol: 0,0%
Calories: 26kcal/100ml
Spanish non-alcoholic lager with a strong taste, mainly due to the use of roasted malt.
Pale Beer – Low Alcohol
Country: Canada
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Partake Brewing
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 3kcal/100ml
A Canadian Pale Ale with just 10 kcal per can.
Country: Denmark
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Svaneke Bryghus
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 25kcal/100ml
An organic, Danish Pale Ale, brewed completely alcoholfree, so no alcohol is removed from alcoholic beer in the production process.
Country: Germany
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Riegele BierManufaktur
Alcohol: 0%
Calories: 34kcal/100ml
A beer brewed based on two types of yeast and three hops. Hence 2 + 3.
Country: Germany
Award: Silver medal
Brewery: Hachenburger Pils
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 23kcal/100ml
The alcoholfree version of Hachenburger’s classic lager.
Country: UK
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Infinite Session
Alcohol: 0,5%
Calories: 11kcal/100ml
A Pale Ale ‘American style’, with a fruity touch, obtained by using tropical hops.
Country: UK
Award: Bronze medal
Brewery: Adnams
Alcohol: 0,5%
Calories: 21kcal/100ml
Non-alcoholic version of Adnams Ghost Ship, obtained by reverse osmosis
Country: UK
Award: Bronze medal
Brewery: Nirvana Brewery
Alcohol: 0,5%
Calories: 20kcal/100ml
A light, fresh Pale Ale with an aroma of lemon and flowers, but with a slightly bitter finish.
Country: USA
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Athletic Brewing Company
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 20kcal/100ml
An alcoholfree IPA with a fresh touch of citrus, made from premium organic malts from Germany and the US.
Country: Vietnam
Award: Bronze medal
Brewery: Sagota
Alcohol: 0,0%
Calories: niet bekend
The first Vietnamese alcoholfree beer.
Wheat Beer – Alcohol Free
Country: Belgium
Award: Silver medal
Brewery: Hoegaarden (InBev)
Alcohol: 0,0%
Calories: 29kcal/100ml
A fruity Wheat beer made by the famous Belgian brewer from Hoegaarden.
Country: Germany
Award: Country Winnner
Brewery: Maisel’s Weisse
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 24kcal/100ml
An isotonic, vitamin rich wheat beer with a very full taste.
Franziskaner Alkoholfrei Weissbier
Country: Germany
Award: Silver medal
Brewery: Franziskaner
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 21kcal/100ml
A natural, organic alcohol-free white beer with a rich, spicy taste.
Country: Germany
Award: Silver medal
Brewery: Warburger brauerei
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 25kcal/100ml
A refreshing, biologically brewed wheat beer that obtains its typical aroma by using natural, slow working yeast.
Country: Germany
Award: Bronze medal
Brewery: Ketterer
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 28kcal/100ml
A fresh and fruity wheat beer that has a pleasant finish by using sweet malt.
Schlappeseppel Weißbier Alkoholfrei
Country: Germany
Award: Bronze medal
Brewery: Schlappe Seppel
Alcohol: < 0,5%
Calories: 16kcal/100ml
A somewhat dark white beer that gets flavor, color and aroma from very aromatic malts.
