N/A? yes….
Dollar sales of nonalcoholic beer, spirits and wine in the United States were up 14 percent in the 52-week period ending July 18, and in the three-month period up to June 27, sales of nonalcoholic beer hit $235 million. The thing is, while the phrase “nonalcoholic” sounds rather decisive, chemically it’s not entirely the case, and at times, that can cause issues for, say, people who have liver transplants and people who really cannot consume alcohol anymore. While many brands use phrases like “zero percent alcohol or zero-proof, regulations have anything with less than 0.5 percent alcohol as nonalcoholic. It’s somewhat expensive to get rid of that last trace of alcohol from the brews, and only a few brands — Budweiser Zero, Michelob Ultra Zero — go that extra milliliter. That has led to some legal issues, such as Heineken getting sued back in 2021 by buyers who said that Heineken 0.0 is, in fact, 0.03 percent ABV.
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