Alcohol-Free Lager and Pils

The one that tastes like your usual pint. If you drink German-style lager, try a helles like Below Brew Heaven & Helles. If you like more bite, go for a pils. Jump Ship Yardarm is still their bestseller five years on, which tells you something. Our best alcohol-free lagers guide goes through more.

Both are pale German-style lagers. Helles is the softer one: gentle malt sweetness, biscuit notes, not much bitterness. Pilsner is drier and crisper, with more noble hop bite, often from Saaz or Hallertau. So helles is the one you sink on a sunny afternoon, and pils is the one that wakes your tongue up. We stock alcohol-free versions of both, side by side.

Yes, a few. Krombacher Pils 0.0% is Germany's best-selling pils with no alcohol, Kaiserdom 0.0% is brewed in Bamberg, and Smashed 0.0% is a British lager with every bit of alcohol taken out. Most of our other lagers are 0.5% or under, and some are 0.3%. The exact ABV is on every drink, and the 0.0% only page lists the lot.

A radler is beer mixed with lemonade. The German answer to a shandy, only nobody gets funny about ordering one. Nirvana Cloudy Lemon is their unfiltered Bavarian lager blended 50/50 with lemonade made from natural lemon juice, at 0.2%. Kaiserdom's lemon radler is 0.0% and uses wheat beer instead. Light, zesty and very good when the sun actually turns up.

In our range, Athletic AF leads at 25 calories a can. Firebrand Little Wave is 31 calories in a 440ml can, and Black Isle Halo Organic Lager is 40. Brulo Highway to Helles comes in at 56. Calories are listed on each product page where the brewery provides them, so you can compare before you add to the basket.

Zebra striping means alternating: one alcoholic drink, then one alcohol-free, and so on through the night. Lager is the easiest place to start because a good non-alcoholic lager looks and tastes like the pint next to it. No speeches, no announcements. It's not for everyone, and that's fine. Read more on our zebra striping page.