#1. The United Kingdom

Introduction

by Melissa Cole

As a great man once said: I love it when a plan comes together, and this was a plan born out of a desire to make some genuinely innovative non-alcoholic beers; styles that you’d never normally associate with alcohol-free beer and that you would want to put on your dinner table (or lunch table for that matter!).

Working with such talented brewers like James Rylance, Colin Stronge, Malcolm Downie and John Driebergen to create the flavour profiles we wanted for these beers, which were then realised through the technical brilliance of Big Drop brewer Johnny Clayton, was a real joy an undertaking I hope will see people rethinking alcohol-free beer.

I am passionate about the growing improvement and reach of the alcohol free range of beers out there because it’s something quite close to my heart, having good non-alcoholic option to hand instead of reaching for a beer because it’s there is something I’ve been all too often been guilty of over the years because it’s very easy when you’re around booze all the time for you job to not be mindful of how you are drinking, or possibly abusing, it.

But, that said, this project was always about more than just making non-alcoholic beers together, it was about making tasty beers together that just happen to be 0.5% alcohol and I think that’s exactly what we’ve done and I hope you agree!