In this new series, our money and consumer editor considers the often perplexing reasons items cost what they do. As a new report suggests booze-free booze can cost 25% more than the alcoholic equivalent, what could possibly explain this?
Obviously this doesn’t have to apply to you, I enjoy the bitter flavour, but the main reason I love NA beer is that drinks traditionally fall into 4 camps: water, hot bitter caffeine, cold bitter alcohol, or sweet sugar drinks.
If you don’t want to get drunk or stay awake for 6 hours, basically the choices left are water (love it, but nice to have something else sometimes), or just excessive sweetness, I can stand a coke every now and again, but 2 in a row would leave me feeling sick.
Na beer lets me drink something that feels like it wasn’t designed for 12 year olds without having to worry about dropping my baby or crashing my car.
Obviously this doesn’t have to apply to you, I enjoy the bitter flavour, but the main reason I love NA beer is that drinks traditionally fall into 4 camps: water, hot bitter caffeine, cold bitter alcohol, or sweet sugar drinks.
If you don’t want to get drunk or stay awake for 6 hours, basically the choices left are water (love it, but nice to have something else sometimes), or just excessive sweetness, I can stand a coke every now and again, but 2 in a row would leave me feeling sick.
Na beer lets me drink something that feels like it wasn’t designed for 12 year olds without having to worry about dropping my baby or crashing my car.
Unsweetened herbal tea?
Also a great option, especially on colder days