Super Dry 0.0
76/100
The short takeClean, dry, slightly sweet grain — restrained, precise, and unmistakably not-beer to a beer drinker.
Tasted Karl HillHow we score
Serve Very cold, from the bottle.
Who it’s for Japanese food, hot days, anyone who wants an extremely light zero-proof drink rather than a beer substitute.
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In the glass
- Nose
- Light grain and a faint malt sweetness; very restrained, almost neutral.
- Palate
- Clean and dry with a slight cereal sweetness — closer to a malt beverage than to beer.
- Finish
- Short and clean, very neutral.
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Structure
- Sweetness
- Off-dry
- Body
- Light body
- Finish length
- Short finish
The beer
Light grain and a faint malt sweetness open the bottle — very restrained, almost neutral — and the sip follows that restraint into a clean, dry line with only a slight cereal sweetness underneath. It drinks closer to a malt beverage than to beer: off-dry at the edges, light in body, short and clean at the close, with almost nothing sticky or hop-loud to grab onto. From the first sniff to the last sip the register stays precise and quiet — grain, a little malt sugar, then a neutral exit that does not linger or fight you. Very cold, straight from the bottle, keeps that precision intact; let it sit and the already soft profile goes flatter and blander than the chill allows. Off-dry, light body, short clean finish: the whole pour is restrained. There is no hop story to chase and no roasted malt depth — only grain, a soft cereal sweetness, and a neutral close that ends before you can invent beer character that is not there.
It is refreshing and exact. A beer drinker will clock it as not-beer in one sip, and that honesty is the point.
76 sits below the median of the 35 dealcoholized beer bottles we've tasted.
The bottle
Trade record, where to buy, and product facts.
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Research notes
Asahi documents dealcoholization of the Super Dry base recipe. The removal technique and manufacturing country of the tasted bottle remain undeclared.
Where to buy
- Package
330 ml bottle
- Typical price
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£13.10 / 6 × 330 ml bottles
≈ £2.18 per bottle
- Availability
International distribution; UK retail through Dry Drinker
Prices and availability are independently observed and may change. Retailer listings do not imply endorsement. A different package is labeled as a different format. Reader-service exceptions and commercial links are identified above; neither affects scores, rankings, classification, verification, or editorial coverage.
Product facts
- Producer
- Asahi Europe & International / Asahi Group Holdings
- Origin
- Japan
- Base beverage
- Asahi Super Dry beer, brewed before alcohol removal
- Bottle / can
- 330 ml bottle
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Evidence at a glance
- Producer documented6 facts
- Secondary source1 fact
- Retailer sourced3 facts
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Producer asahigroup-holdings.com
Producer documented2 notes
- Production
- Dry Zero formulation evidence does not apply to this bottle.
- Country
- Prior Japan-origin evidence applied to Dry Zero cans.
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Note
- Volume
- Merchant repeats one barcode across different case sizes; unit-barcode scope is not established.
Product record history Sourced changes and open disagreements. Prior claims stay on the record when sources conflict.
- ReviewedReviewed and published.
- UpdatedCatalog record updated from sourced research.
- Fact corrected · ProductCorrected from Asahi Dry Zero to Asahi Super Dry 0.0, 330 ml bottle. Karl Hill confirmed the tasted bottle identity; the editorial still already shows Super Dry 0.0. The durable product key, original firsthand tasting and 76-point score are unchanged.
- Classification changed · ClassificationCorrected from alternative to dealcoholized. Super Dry 0.0 is brewed before alcohol removal. The previous wort-free formulation claim belonged to the different Dry Zero SKU.
- Fact corrected · CountryCorrected from Japan to Undeclared. The previous origin citation described Dry Zero cans, not the confirmed Super Dry 0.0 bottle. Japanese brand origin does not establish brewing country.
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