Alcohol free beer

[Donoroto]

Can one simply brew a regular beer, then boil off the alcohol? How much will that affect flavor?

 

[Mark Farrall]

That's one of the widely used approaches. The original video in this thread (two and a bit years ago) uses that approach.

If you've got plenty of money you can put the beer in a low pressure container, so the alcohol boils off at a much lower temp. Most of the macro brewers use this approach for their zero alcohol versions. I haven't tasted one after the boil off approach, so don't know how much it changes, but most add something back into the beer, which suggests it's a decent effect. One of the macro brewers here was mentioning hop extract as the post alcohol boil off addition.

Others use different yeast that create far less alcohol and have a lower alcohol tolerance. Some halt the fermentation through temp or preservatives and a bunch of other producers are very coy about what approach they're using.

I find the brewing side of this fascinating. Far more than the product it creates.

 

[GFHomebrew]

That's one of the widely used approaches. The original video in this thread (two and a bit years ago) uses that approach.

If you've got plenty of money you can put the beer in a low pressure container, so the alcohol boils off at a much lower temp. Most of the macro brewers use this approach for their zero alcohol versions. I haven't tasted one after the boil off approach, so don't know how much it changes, but most add something back into the beer, which suggests it's a decent effect. One of the macro brewers here was mentioning hop extract as the post alcohol boil off addition.

Others use different yeast that create far less alcohol and have a lower alcohol tolerance. Some halt the fermentation through temp or preservatives and a bunch of other producers are very coy about what approach they're using.

I find the brewing side of this fascinating. Far more than the product it creates.

Amen as a Hombrewer I think this is something we might be able to easily replicate at home at our scale only inhibiter i can see is low Alcohol content

 

[Craigerrr]

Yeah I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about it.

Having not brewed for a while, I am hoping to get my stock levels back up before trying that experiment.
On a similar note, I am planning to be brewing more in the 4% to 5% range than I have in the past.