What NA Beer are you drinking now? And what NA beers are you liking?

[bracconiere]

My BP was not under control and neither was my blood sugar.

yeah, i started drinking a lot of homebrew when i was 26. mostly because i gave up on cops helping me ever thinkformyself enough to stand up to dope cooks, and i knew beer was easy to make and i wouldn't end up getting taken advantage of....but when i was 29-30 i had horible heart burn, bad enough to be puking blood. and when my ass abccess poping and was spewing blood WHILE i was puking blood....i damn well knew beer & milk isn't a living plan! but i'm a cheap bastard and if i had to eat i wanted to learn how to do it as cheap as possible! at first i almost went the pill route, but said to myself, why is i drink in the first place? because i don't want to let someone use chemicals to take advantage of me...so i looked for a list of the vitamins i need and a list of what's in food. found the USDA nutrient db, and some third party utilities to use it...


i don't even have dandruf any more! lost 90lbs, kept it off for 13 years...liver is in good shape, blood sugar good, cholesterol good...BP good...

just got to make sure i make sure the 'bills' get paid, and keep it within the budget....

I know that its odd to be talking about this subject on a home brew forum

no man, it defintaly should be said especialy around here... this be risky bussiness. but doable!

edit: damn, i'm thinking, i should SOOOOO use the preview function before making posts like in the future!

 

[Broken Crow]

I'm right there with you on the clean diet and no pharma. I use fuggle and or EKG based ales as a mild muscle-relaxant. About 30 years ago I did some reseach that showed that even Ibuprofen had the impact on your liver equivalent to about 6-12 beers, but the effect was only strong for the first hour. Now, with my tolerance drastically dropped since my 2014 injury, I am experimenting with spreading 3-6 beers over an entire day for the slow reflex-retardation effect that keeps my hypertonicity from engaging, and still coming in at a lower level of liver-intoxication that the least off the shelf or prescription drug combo can do. (Yeah, treat the cause..NOT the symptoms!)

 

[bracconiere]

Ibuprofen had the impact on your liver equivalent to about 6-12 beers,

not to mention the stomach bleeding!! that stuff is a band-aid that should be taken off as soon as possible..


i made an amide out of ibuprofen for reasons you can imagine...after a week, it was a pink puke show!

 

[AZCoolerBrewer]

Great thread. For the record, I am friends and family with people who have the disease of alcoholism. That said, I think those of us who do drink could do with less from time to time. The problem I have is that your 0.0% have a big bunch of carbs, which I’m trying to avoid. I have a “beer fest” one a month where I drink whatever beer I want for one day, but the rest of the month I only get 2 real beers a weekend, (self regulated). No alcohol beers are not low carb, so I have not had one. I’d love to see a low/no carb NA beer.

 

[mergs]

for some reason reading through the update....what about kombucha with using wheat germ for the tea, and maybe a dry hop? it'd have a lot of good vitamins that way too!


maybe like 1lb of raw wheat germ for a 5 gallon batch? but strain the actual flakes out? then maybe a dry hop with an ounce of hops?

I have a feeling that hopping at the beginning of a kombucha batch (while its warm) might impart antimicrobial aspects into the batch and have negative impact on the SCOBY and the ferment. I'm willing to try it though!

 

[mergs]

Great thread. For the record, I am friends and family with people who have the disease of alcoholism. That said, I think those of us who do drink could do with less from time to time. The problem I have is that your 0.0% have a big bunch of carbs, which I’m trying to avoid. I have a “beer fest” one a month where I drink whatever beer I want for one day, but the rest of the month I only get 2 real beers a weekend, (self regulated). No alcohol beers are not low carb, so I have not had one. I’d love to see a low/no carb NA beer.

Totally agree. Sam Adams is insanely High Carb. On the other hand, Partake from Canada is low: Styles & Flavors · Great Tasting Non-Alcoholic Beers

 

[AZCoolerBrewer]

Totally agree. Sam Adams is insanely High Carb. On the other hand, Partake from Canada is low: Styles & Flavors · Great Tasting Non-Alcoholic Beers

They have it at total wine and more. Thanks, I’ll give it a try.

 

[mergs]

They have it at -----. Thanks, I’ll give it a try.

Shhhh, that's my source!

 

[BrewinInPA]

1:1:1 Negroni, Bulldog Gin, while the stuffed shells are baking.
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[BrewinInPA]

Oops wrong thread

 

[mergs]

I tried Clausthaler Dry Hopped NA beer yesterday. Its pretty high carb (as most of these are) but a decent beer (the hops definitely help) and better than their standard offering.. It would be an OK choice if you were in a restaurant and needed a beer with dinner, esp. if it was a choice between that and O'Douls or Kaliber, but I wouldn't seek this one out.

I also had Weihenstephaner's Hefeweissbier Alkoholfrei and it was pretty good. I've had this before in Germany and it seemed to have been a little fresher there which isn't surprising. I could have a couple of these at a summer party and be content.

 

[BrewinInPA]

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