Non-alcoholic Beer

ELI5 - How is non-alcoholic beer made?

Starting with regular beer, alcohol is removed, usually by steam distillation or reverse osmosis. These processes extract nearly all of the alcohol (non-alcoholic beer can still be up to 0.5% ABV), leaving the other components of the beer mostly intact.

The taste is more or less preserved because the remaining flavor molecules remain undamaged. It doesn't taste quite the same, as the alcohol does have some flavor of its own which is now gone.

By Alex 8 months ago