Approaches to non-alcoholic brewing

[EarthenSky]

I've taken a course on brewing, so I have a rough idea of the brewing process. Even for non-alcoholic beers. My understanding is that there are 3 main approaches to making non-alcoholic beer. However, in my research and tests, I got stuck on each approach.

1. Boiling
   • Make a regular beer up to the end of fermentation, boil the alcohol away, then force carbonate it for bottling. I've tried this before with a light IPA, although I found the required boil time (1.5 hours) to reduce ABV from 5% to 0.5% caused the result be black and taste burnt.
   • Issue: A long post-fermentation boil seems to burn either the hops or the Malt.
2. Maltose (or matriose) negative yeast
   • Make your wort just like usual, but innoculate with a special strain of non-alcoholic yeast that can't consume longer chain sugars (most common). See this for more details.
   • Issue: I couldn't find any maltose or maltriose negative yeasts for sale at reasonable prices / quantities. I would be willing to spend up to $50 on yeast for experiments, but the cheapest I've been able to find is LONA for about $300 CAD, which is outside my range.
3. Vaccum distillation
   • Make a regular beer to just before the carbonation stage. Use fancy vaccum distillation equipment to remove ethanol/methanol from the beer, bringing the ABV arbitrarily low without messing with the aroma too much. Optionally dry hop a little after, then force carbonation.
   • Issue: Vaccum distillation seems to border on legality (even if I just chuck out the ethanol/methanol), and the equipment seems to be expensive as well. As a non-engineer, it's not clear whether I could reasonably build something to perform vaccum distillation.

My main question is whether anyone has suggestions to help me proceed with any of the above issues?

Additionally, I'd love to hear if anyone has tried any of these approaches and got results they liked or that seemed promising!