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Non-Alcoholic Beers Liquor Retailer Buyers Guide! Discovering beers in
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Non-Alcoholic Beers in South Africa
Gone are the days when there was no choice for the beer lover.! Now we even have a choice when choosing a non-alcoholic beer.!
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I believe that world-wide this industry is driven by the middle eastern market. There is a huge market for malt beverages in countries were the consumers faith does not permit them to drink alcoholic beverages. Often the words non-alcoholic beer are substituted by malt beverage because beer has connotation with alcohol.!
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I can think of many other obvious reasons for drinking non-alcoholic beer. Not one of them has anything to do with taste‌ That was until I tasted the new flavoured non alcoholic beers. Modern non alcoholic beers actually taste very good. So go ahead and try one.!
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How are non-alcoholic malt beverages brewed? !
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Most non- and low alcohol free beers are brewed with alcohol and then the alcohol is filtered out - this process cannot guarantee all the alcohol is completely filtered out. ! At the old Bavaria Brau brewery in Centurion, we brewed a beer called Bavaria Point 5. !
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The brewing process was controlled so that only a small amount of alcohol was produced.!
Other breweries simply remove some or all of the alcohol from conventionally brewed beer.!
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Alcohol can be removed from beer after brewing by the dialysis or reverseosmosis method.!
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Bavaria Holland, uses a different process. Bavaria have a brewing technique where no alcohol is created during the brewing process - ensuring a 0.0% beer.   Page 2 of 8
Erdinger Alkoholfrei! !
Erdinger Alkoholfrei marketed as the “isotonic thirst quencher” and the brand is a frequent sponsor of sport events. !
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“Delicious taste of wheat beer but with no alcohol”
This is how you celebrate a new marathon world record!!
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Wilson Kipsang celebrates with a big glass of non-alcoholic beer after winning the 2013 Berlin marathon in world record time.!
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Clausthaler ! !
If a beer with a brand name such as Clausthaler can sell outside Germany surely it must taste OK?!
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! Clausthaler Classic non alcoholic beer and Clausthaler Lemon. !
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Clausthaler was launched in 1979 and is Germany’s leading non alcoholic beer.!
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Is Clausthaler completely alcohol-free? ! Like all beers in Germany, non-alcoholic brews and reduced-alcohol beers are brewed with only water, barley (malt) and hops in strict accordance with the German Beer Purity Decree of 1516. Of course, we know today that yeast is also a necessary and important ingredient, but in 1516, the importance of yeast was not yet understood. Other malt types, most importantly wheat, are now also allowed, but only for top-fermented beers (ales). ! Now, in spite of or because of, all our knowledge and all our technical proficiency, we know that a minimal quantity of alcohol must be produced to create a good tasting non-alcoholic malt beverage. The alcohol content of Clausthaler is 0.45 (or 0.30 for Clausthaler Golden Amber) % vol, which lies below the 0.5 % vol maximum alcohol content specified in the statutes as the definition of "non-alcoholic", "dealcoholized", or "alcohol-removed". In Great Britain, the term "alcohol-free" may only be used for products with not more than 0.05 % vol detectable alcohol content. (clausthaler.com)!
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Faxe Free!
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FAXE Free is a danish non-alcoholic beer brewed according to a patented method. Normally, non-alcoholic beer is produced by allowing the alcohol to evaporate. FAXE Free, however, makes use of immobilised fermentation, a process which carefully controls the formation of the characteristic beer taste without alcohol being produced inside the tank. FAXE Free has a light, golden lager colour and a firm, white head. It also has a more fresh and “non boiled� taste, unlike many of the other non-alcoholic beers. (royalunibrew.com)!
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Ingredients: water, barley malt, maltodextrine, hops, natural flavour! Alc. 0,0 % vol!
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Der Graf von Bavaria! !
Der Graf von Bavaria is a non alcoholic wheat beer.
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Bavaria Malt Regular!
In the Bavaria 0,0% Malt series, thanks to its unique production process, no alcoholic formation ever takes place. !
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That is why Bavaria Malt is absolutely free of any alcohol, but still has the character of a beer. !
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It is 100% Halal.! Alc. 0,0 % vol
Bavaria Malt 0.0% Flavours!
! Bavaria’s range of flavoured 0.0% includes: Apple, Lemon, Peach, Pineapple, Pomegranate and Raspberry.!
! Bavaria Shandy!
! Bavaria Shandy. The taste of lager combined with a zest lemon kick makes this beverage both refreshing and thirst quenching at only 0.9% ABV.!
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Becks Non Alc !
Beck's non-alcoholic is a Low Alcohol Beer style beer brewed by Brauerei Beck & Co. in Bremen, Germany
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Holsten Alcohol Free !
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These great brands are also available in non-alcoholic versions in South Africa:! • Bitburger Drive! • Jever Fun! • Maisels Non Alcoholic! • Paulaner Non Alcoholic! • Super Bock Stout Non Alcoholic! • Super Bock Non Alcoholic! • Warsteiner Non Alcoholic
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