AAABatteries
Footballguy
Haven’t they basically taken the only good thing about it and removed it? Who the hell is drinking this crap?
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Heineken - Zero Alcohol (1 Viewer)
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Nipsey
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Seems like decaf coffee, also fairly useless.
The General
Footballguy
This was like the hippy parents when I was growing up that served “chocolate” that was actually carob. Gross.
Galileo
Footballguy
Designated drivers? Alcoholics? I guess anyone who wants to "fit in" without actually ingesting the alcohol content. Non alcoholic beers have been around for a long time, so I guess there is some market for it. I am surprised Heineken would want to bother trying to get involved in that space, but whatever. They must feel like they can make a buck.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
I'll take "Things that are banned in my kitchen" for $400, Alex.
KCitons
Footballguy
ChainsawU
Footballguy
If it didn't have gluten I'd probably buy it. Haven't drank since last year. Holding a beer at a bar. That's probably what this stuff is for. Do you think they're marketing it now, a little bit of time has passed since all the new year's resolutions were made. Maybe they're trying to appeal to that market. Dudes who're trying to maintain their non-alcoholic resolutions yet still want to go out ##### hunting. Then once dudes get a taste of it Heiney will be in position to get them on the come back. I never loved the taste of Heineken though.
rockaction
Footballguy
Probably. What's the old AA phrase? Hang out in a barbershop long enough and you're bound to get a haircut.
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Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
wtf. how is this an issue?
Olestra boys - O'Doule's was introduced in the like the early 90s.
Olestra boys - O'Doule's was introduced in the like the early 90s.
rockaction
Footballguy
One night, I saw a sad/funny thing. Guy was drinking NA beer. His girlfriend left for a bit. Walked out the door to do some shopping. Guy quickly orders and proceeds to down regular beer after regular beer. Looks out the window. Sees her coming back. Has the bartender stow the beer in the bar fridge and grabs the NA that he'd left on the bar. She sat down, none the wiser. He was hammered...
Galileo
Footballguy
Most brew companies in the US were brewing non alcoholic beer during prohibition days.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
AAABatteries
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AAABatteries
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AAABatteries
Footballguy
I understand this is around, what I’m saying is nobody I know drinks Heineken unless they have to and then only because it has alcohol. Tastes horrible - so the idea of Heineken without alcohol just seems dumb. Note, I’ve never even tried other non-alcohol beer so maybe it will top the rankings.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
shadyridr
Footballguy
I have no clue. Im not an alcoholic but have you honestly never heard of ODoules?
why would an alcoholic drink a no alcohol beer?
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Sometimes the ritual/habit is as important as the alcohol or drug. Might make it easier to quit the harder stuff?
Zow
Footballguy
As people have mentioned above it still gives a person the sense that he’s having a beer. It’s supposedly effective for alcoholics who do a lot of their drinking in public or social situations and they don’t want to lose that. So the person can go shoot darts or pool with a cold one in his hand like always. Admittedly I haven’t heard any actual study on this to determine its effectiveness but lots of people going through the treatment courts I’ve worked in will consume this stuff (and then test slightly positive for alcohol which get awkward).
Zow
Footballguy
Yep.
When my wife lost her weight she was on a strict diet for six months that included no alcohol. She’d still go out though and she’d order a soda water with a lemon in a cocktail or white whine glass. Had the look and feel of a drink and she claimed it made it easier.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
Osaurus
Footballguy
Great idea. I sometimes order cranberry juice and lime when I’m the designated driver for friends. It looks like I’m drinking alcohol, but I’m not.Yep.
When my wife lost her weight she was on a strict diet for six months that included no alcohol. She’d still go out though and she’d order a soda water with a lemon in a cocktail or white whine glass. Had the look and feel of a drink and she claimed it made it easier.
shadyridr
Footballguy
NA beer actually has a small amount of alcohol in it and I assume most people don't realize this.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I was in Germany one time and a colleague came to take us for dinner (actually ended up just coming to our hotel but I guess management instisted someone had to take us to dinner)
anyway co-worker and I probably had 5-6 beers with dinner and this guy was keeping up pretty well
finally at the end of the night the waitress asks if we want some schnapps and he declines because he’s driving. We’re both kind of puzzled and ask if that will really make a difference after all the beers and that’s when he informs us he’d been drinking the alcohol free beers
anyway co-worker and I probably had 5-6 beers with dinner and this guy was keeping up pretty well
finally at the end of the night the waitress asks if we want some schnapps and he declines because he’s driving. We’re both kind of puzzled and ask if that will really make a difference after all the beers and that’s when he informs us he’d been drinking the alcohol free beers
Van Dyman
Footballguy
Getting in position to "get them back" seems dark yet plausible.
Side note: it looks like I'm the only person here who actually likes Heineken. I also tried Heineken Light once, but it was awful.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
I cant even taste heiney because of the smell. Get it within 6 inches of my nose and i just chicken out and can't go through with it.
Zow
Footballguy
Warrior
Footballguy
Wait, what?
It's literally called non-alcoholic. How can they put alcohol in it (legally)?
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
Seems heineken might be opening itself up to some issues here.
Advertising as 0.0 but still containing up to .05% seems odd. But i am guessing that amount must not actually register on tests.
Advertising as 0.0 but still containing up to .05% seems odd. But i am guessing that amount must not actually register on tests.
Courtjester
The Town Drunk
I had a friend who just couldn't handle drinking. He would get sloppy drunk and then go to depressed mode or extremely happy mode. One night he called me and asked if I could meet him at Red Robin. We sat at the bar and he told me he had had enough. He said he was going to kill himself and that he just bought a shotgun, which was in his car. Well I spend the better part of an hour drinking with him excusing myself every few minutes to go call anyone I could find in our group of friends to come help me. Red Robin kicks us out because he is so wasted. We get to the parking lot and I am trying to stall for time. I am doing all I can to keep him with me and just as I am pretty much out of hope, a mall security guard, who is just going on shift, walks by his car and I say, "Sir, my friend has a gun and I need help." Then at the same moment, my friend's brother shows up. You could tell the security guard wanted none of this and just let my friend go with his brother. The funny part is he told me he needed me to take the gun. So we take a gun from one drunk guy to give to another drunk guy really wasn't a good application of logic on his part I must say.
His family filed an involuntary commitment case and he went to detox for a bit and then a treatment facility. When he came out, he said he felt ostracized by our group of friends because we all played pool and drank. No matter how much we told him it was okay, we didn't judge him, and to just come with us, he just felt weird being around us. Well he found NA beer and it really helped him get over that. We would play poker or go fishing and he would bring his N/A and he said it made him feel like one of the guys. So I can really see how this would help alcoholics.
ChainsawU
Footballguy
Just read a book about habits. Their definition of the habit loop was cue -> routine -> reward. A non-alcoholic Heineken fits perfectly into routine.
ChainsawU
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shadyridr
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ChiefD
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Stompin' Tom Connors
Footballguy
AAABatteries said:
x2 -- never understood the love for Heineken as it has always tasted like crud and ALWAYS smelled skunky, whether out of the bottle, tap, keg, etc. Do people still consider it an upscale brand here in the US? Have no clue how people overseas think of it compared to other wide commercial brands out of Germany or EU in general (Carlsberg, Grolsch, etc.).parasaurolophus said:
For the record, I've always thought non-alcoholic beer, decaffeinated coffee, etc. was a total waste of time. Might as well be drinking something good.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
So 10 of them equal a 5% beer.parasaurolophus said:
AAABatteries
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Galileo
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