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Best dealcoholized beer
These beers started at strength and had the ethanol removed. A beer brewed to stay at or under 0.5% is a different object, and it is not in this set.
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The ranking
Our top 12
Highest score first, from 32 tasted bottles. Tied scores list the more recent tasting first.
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Rank 1
91/100
Standout
Roast, cocoa, and coffee, with the surge intact. Silky and a little shorter than Draught. A sweet edge shows up if you go looking for it.
A pub pint when the rest of the table is drinking the 4.2%.
Rank 2
87/100
Standout
The Dark nonalcoholic that finally behaves like a porter. Roast and chocolate land; the middle is a touch lighter than the full-strength Black Butte, and that is the honest trade.
The Black Butte drinker who wants the Bend porter on a weeknight…
Rank 3
86/100
Standout
A convincing hazy IPA with expressive citrus and tropical fruit, good body, and enough bitterness to keep its softer character in balance. Flavorful and notably complete for the style.
Rank 4
84/100
A flavorful raspberry radler: ripe berry, sweet malt, and citrus acidity in a medium body with lively carbonation. Sweetness and acid stay in step, so it finishes sweet-tart rather than sticky. Straightforward, not complex, and worth another can.
A cold can when you want berry and fizz with a beer underneath.
Rank 5
84/100
A raspberry sour whose gentle tartness and berry sweetness meet in a refreshing close.
Rank 6
84/100
A straightforward, well-made pils that succeeds on crispness and drinkability. Clean malt, firm carbonation and enough herbal hop bitterness give this light, uncomplicated beer the structure it needs.
Rank 7
Rank 8
84/100
A lively golden IPA with a familiar citrus-and-pine character and enough bitterness to give the palate some grip. Gentle malt sweetness rounds the sharper hop notes, keeping the beer approachable without losing its IPA identity. The light body makes it easy to drink, while lingering citrus and bitterness give the finish definition. A satisfying, straightforward nonalcoholic IPA.
Rank 9
84/100
The cleanest nonalcoholic Kölsch on the US craft shelf — a light, slightly toasty ale with the body and finish of a Kölsch, not a near-beer compromise.
The bottle-of-something that should be in every US craft shop's NA…
Rank 10
84/100
Tangerine and grapefruit up front, hop bitterness still carrying at the end. Medium body, clean malt, the citrus intact.
The Fresh Squeezed fan who wants the same beer without the alcohol —…
Rank 11
84/100
The most fun nonalcoholic beer on the market: a genuinely tart, tropical sour that tastes like a beer brewed with fruit rather than a fruit drink pretending to be beer.
Summer afternoons, people who don't like beer, and anyone who wants…
Rank 12
83/100
A lighter Vienna that holds: toasted grain, a dry sip, and a clean, faintly bitter close. Straightforward more than complex. Drinkability and a coherent malt line.
A cold malt-forward lager when you want toasted grain more than hop…
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0.0%
Guinness 0.0
91/100
0.0% ABV
Roast, cocoa, and coffee, with the surge intact. Silky and a little shorter than Draught. A sweet edge shows up if you go looking for it.
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Dry
Eighteen Twenty Vienna Suite Golden
83/100
<0.5% ABV
A lighter Vienna that holds: toasted grain, a dry sip, and a clean, faintly bitter close. Straightforward more than complex. Drinkability and a coherent malt line.
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IPA
Deschutes Brewery Fresh Haze IPA
86/100
<0.5% ABV
A convincing hazy IPA with expressive citrus and tropical fruit, good body, and enough bitterness to keep its softer character in balance. Flavorful and notably complete for the style.
How these lists are chosen
What was evaluated
32 tasted dealcoholized beers with a public score. Research records are not candidates.
Who qualifies
Ranked from 32 tasted dealcoholized beers, by firsthand score. The top 12 are listed. Research-only products are excluded. A tied score lists the more recent tasting first. Only dealcoholized beer qualifies. Naturally low-alcohol and unclassified beers do not. Updated October 2026.
What the score is rewarding
The beer that existed before the alcohol left is still recognizable: bitterness, roast, or hop aroma.
What tends to go wrong
Flavored water filed as beer. A 0.0% claim that is only a ceiling of under 0.5%. A naturally low-alcohol beer filed as dealcoholized.