Non-Alcoholic
74/100
The short takeGrain, pale malt, and a little grass, then mild malt sweetness, cereal, and restrained hops. The finish is short and slightly sweet. A quiet, easy lager that stays mild and does not develop.
Tasted Karl HillHow we score
Serve Cold, in a lager glass.
Who it’s for A cold, mild lager beside food that does not need the beer to carry the plate.
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TDS Beerprint
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In the glass
- Nose
- Grain, pale malt, and a light grass note. The aroma is quiet and clean — cereal and a little field, with no hop perfume.
- Palate
- Mild malt sweetness and cereal grain, with hops kept in restraint. Bitterness is low. The beer stays light and easy, more malt than hop, and the sweetness never climbs past a soft lager sweetness. Nothing sharp, nothing roasted.
- Finish
- Short, slightly sweet, and only faintly bitter. The malt fades quickly. A hint of bitterness shows at the end and does not stay.
Structure and likeness Show Hide
Structure
- Sweetness
- Off-dry
- Bitterness
- Modest bitterness
- Body
- Light body
- Finish length
- Short finish
How beer-like is it?
Separate from the score. A convincing resemblance is not a higher rating.
Recognizable as a mild German lager — malt and cereal before hops — with the bitter snap of a drier lager left out.
The beer
Quiet is the whole glass. Grain, pale malt, and a little grass on the nose, then a palate of mild malt sweetness and cereal grain. Hops appear only as restraint — low bitterness, nothing piney, nothing sharp. Malt comes first. The hop note stays small. Grass is only a light edge on the grain.
The finish matches that limit. The malt fades quickly, and the faint bitterness does not linger long enough to dry the glass. Mouthfeel is light. Cereal, pale malt, a grassy edge, then done. As a nonalcoholic German lager it is recognizable, and recognition is most of what it offers: malt before hops, sweet before bitter, finished before a second flavor arrives. The balance is honest and narrow. It drinks easily. It does not stay interesting.
Seventy-four sits on that ceiling. Cold, beside food that carries itself, this is a mild lager you can keep in the glass without it arguing. The pleasure is the quiet, pale malt and the short, slightly sweet close. Drink it for that, and keep the expectation at a gentle lager rather than a bitter one.
74 sits below the median of the 42 naturally low alcohol beer bottles we've tasted.
The bottle
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Brew masters stop fermentation before alcohol begins to develop (US distributor brand copy — SSC / R.L. Lipton)
Research notes
Imported German NA lager; Reinheitsgebot malt/hops/water/yeast framing on distributor pages. ABV listings disagree (<0.05% vs 0.5%) — see discrepancies. Leave not verified until a primary brewery tech sheet confirms the arrested-fermentation claim.
Where to buy
- Standard Sales Company
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Checked 22 Sep 2026
- Package
12 fl oz bottle
- Typical price
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$305.49 / 24 × 12 fl oz bottles
≈ $12.73 per bottle
- Also listed
- SSC, L.P. — St Pauli Girl brand page (US)
- Availability
US import retail including Advanced Mixology (24-pack); distributors SSC and R.L. Lipton
Availability is market-specific; a producer link does not establish shipping to every country. 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
- St. Pauli Girl (Bremen)
- Origin
Bremen, Germany- Bottle / can
- 12 fl oz bottle (common US 6-pack / 24-pack configurations)
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Sources & verification
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Where sources disagree
Sources disagree on the following points.
- ABV: Public record uses <0.5% until a producer label residual is confirmed.
Evidence at a glance
- Distributor sourced4 facts
- Retailer sourced1 fact
- Unverified7 facts
Production record
2 core facts remain to be documented or rechecked.
- Classification
- Not verified
- Method
- Not applicable
- ABV
- Ceiling declaration
- Origin
- Documented
- Record
- Has open discrepancy
Sources
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Distributor / importer standardsalescompanylp.com
- ABV (sources disagree)
- Production
- Method
- Country
Note
- Country
- SSC places the brand in Bremen, a brewing center in Northern Germany, and describes St. Pauli Non-Alcoholic as an imported malt beverage.
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.
- OpenDiscrepancyABV.
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74/100