Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Low-alcohol beer

Index Low-alcohol beer

Low-alcohol beer (also called light beer, non-alcoholic beer, small beer, small ale, or near-beer) is beer with little or no alcohol content, which aims to reproduce the taste of beer without the inebriating effects of standard alcoholic brews. [1]

76 relations: Acetaldehyde, Alaska, Alcohol by volume, Alcohol laws of Missouri, Ale, Anchor Brewing Company, Anheuser-Busch, Anheuser-Busch brands, Arab world, Australia, Barley wine, Beer, Beer classification in Sweden and Finland, Bevo, Cereal, Colorado, Coors Light, Cornmeal, Cullen–Harrison Act, Distillation, Drake's Brewing Company, Egypt, Ethanol, Europe, European Union, Fatwa, Food energy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Halal, Hawaii, Holsten Brewery, Homebrewing, Iceland, Illinois, Indiana University, Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Kansas, Kvass, Lager, Malaysia, Malt beer, Malt drink, Middle Ages, Mild ale, Miller Brewing Company, Miller Lite, Minnesota, Minor (law), Missouri, New Deal, ..., New Jersey, Niccolò Machiavelli, North America, Oklahoma, Pabst Brewing Company, Pennsylvania, Prohibition, Prohibition in the United States, Puritans, Reverse osmosis, Saudi Arabia, Small beer, Starch, Systembolaget, Texas, The Wall Street Journal, Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, U.S. state, United Kingdom, United States, Utah, Volstead Act, Washington, D.C., Waverley Root, Wisconsin, Wort. Expand index (26 more) »

Acetaldehyde

Acetaldehyde (systematic name ethanal) is an organic chemical compound with the formula CH3CHO, sometimes abbreviated by chemists as MeCHO (Me.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Acetaldehyde · See more »

Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Alaska · See more »

Alcohol by volume

Alcohol by volume (abbreviated as ABV, abv, or alc/vol) is a standard measure of how much alcohol (ethanol) is contained in a given volume of an alcoholic beverage (expressed as a volume percent).

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Alcohol by volume · See more »

Alcohol laws of Missouri

The alcohol laws of Missouri are among the most permissive in the United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Alcohol laws of Missouri · See more »

Ale

Ale is a type of beer brewed using a warm fermentation method, resulting in a sweet, full-bodied and fruity taste.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Ale · See more »

Anchor Brewing Company

Anchor Brewing Company is an American alcoholic beverage producer, operating a brewery and distillery on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, California.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Anchor Brewing Company · See more »

Anheuser-Busch

Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC is an American brewing company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Anheuser-Busch · See more »

Anheuser-Busch brands

Anheuser-Busch, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, is the largest brewing company in the United States, with a market share of 45 percent in 2016.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Anheuser-Busch brands · See more »

Arab world

The Arab world (العالم العربي; formally: Arab homeland, الوطن العربي), also known as the Arab nation (الأمة العربية) or the Arab states, currently consists of the 22 Arab countries of the Arab League.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Arab world · See more »

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Australia · See more »

Barley wine

Barley wine is a style of strong ale of between 6-11% or 8-12% alcohol by volume.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Barley wine · See more »

Beer

Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Beer · See more »

Beer classification in Sweden and Finland

The beer classification in Sweden and Finland sorts beers into classes based on their alcohol content.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Beer classification in Sweden and Finland · See more »

Bevo

Bevo was a non-alcoholic malt beverage, or near beer, brewed in the United States by the Anheuser-Busch company beginning in the early 20th century.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Bevo · See more »

Cereal

A cereal is any edible components of the grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) of cultivated grass, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Cereal · See more »

Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Colorado · See more »

Coors Light

Coors Light is a 4.2% ABV light beer brewed in Golden, Colorado; Albany, Georgia; Elkton, Virginia; Fort Worth, Texas; Irwindale, California; Moncton, New Brunswick; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Coors Light · See more »

Cornmeal

Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) ground from dried maize (corn).

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Cornmeal · See more »

Cullen–Harrison Act

The Cullen–Harrison Act, named for its sponsors, Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Thomas H. Cullen, enacted by the United States Congress March 21, 1933 and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt the following day, legalized the sale in the United States of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2% (by weight) and wine of similarly low alcohol content, thought to be too low to be intoxicating, effective April 7, 1933.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Cullen–Harrison Act · See more »

Distillation

Distillation is the process of separating the components or substances from a liquid mixture by selective boiling and condensation.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Distillation · See more »

Drake's Brewing Company

Drake's Brewing Company is a brewery in San Leandro, California, USA.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Drake's Brewing Company · See more »

Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Egypt · See more »

Ethanol

Ethanol, also called alcohol, ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, and drinking alcohol, is a chemical compound, a simple alcohol with the chemical formula.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Ethanol · See more »

Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Europe · See more »

European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and European Union · See more »

Fatwa

A fatwā (فتوى; plural fatāwā فتاوى.) in the Islamic faith is a nonbinding but authoritative legal opinion or learned interpretation that the Sheikhul Islam, a qualified jurist or mufti, can give on issues pertaining to the Islamic law.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Fatwa · See more »

Food energy

Food energy is chemical energy that animals (including humans) derive from food through the process of cellular respiration.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Food energy · See more »

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Franklin D. Roosevelt · See more »

Halal

Halal (حلال, "permissible"), also spelled hallal or halaal, refers to what is permissible or lawful in traditional Islamic law.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Halal · See more »

Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Hawaii · See more »

Holsten Brewery

Holsten Brewery (Holsten-Brauerei AG) is a brewing company founded in 1879 in what is now Hamburg's Altona-Nord quarter.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Holsten Brewery · See more »

Homebrewing

Homebrewing is the brewing of beer on a small scale for personal, non-commercial purposes.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Homebrewing · See more »

Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Iceland · See more »

Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Illinois · See more »

Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Indiana University · See more »

Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company

The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and once the largest producer of beer in the United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company · See more »

Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Kansas · See more »

Kvass

Kvass is a traditional Slavic and Baltic beverage commonly made from rye bread, known in many Eastern European countries and especially in Ukraine and Russia as black bread.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Kvass · See more »

Lager

Lager is a type of beer conditioned at low temperatures.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Lager · See more »

Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Malaysia · See more »

Malt beer

Malt beer is a sweet, low-alcohol beer (0–2.5% ABV) that is brewed like regular beer but with low or minimal fermentation.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Malt beer · See more »

Malt drink

A malt drink is a fermented drink in which the primary ingredient is the grain, or seed, of the barley plant, which has been allowed to sprout slightly in a traditional way called "malting" before it is processed.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Malt drink · See more »

Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Middle Ages · See more »

Mild ale

The term "mild" originally meant young beer or ale, as opposed to "stale" aged beer or ale with its resulting "tang".

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Mild ale · See more »

Miller Brewing Company

The Miller Brewing Company is an American beer brewing company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that was owned until October 11, 2016 by the MillerCoors division of the SABMiller–Molson Coors joint venture.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Miller Brewing Company · See more »

Miller Lite

No description.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Miller Lite · See more »

Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Minnesota · See more »

Minor (law)

In law, a minor is a person under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Minor (law) · See more »

Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Missouri · See more »

New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and New Deal · See more »

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and New Jersey · See more »

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Niccolò Machiavelli · See more »

North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and North America · See more »

Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Oklahoma · See more »

Pabst Brewing Company

The Pabst Brewing Company is an American company that dates its origins to a brewing company founded in 1844 by Jacob Best and was, by 1889, named after Frederick Pabst.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Pabst Brewing Company · See more »

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Pennsylvania · See more »

Prohibition

Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Prohibition · See more »

Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Prohibition in the United States · See more »

Puritans

The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Puritans · See more »

Reverse osmosis

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purification technology that uses a semipermeable membrane to remove ions, molecules and larger particles from drinking water.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Reverse osmosis · See more »

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Saudi Arabia · See more »

Small beer

Small beer (also known as small ale or table beer) is a lager or ale that contains a lower amount of alcohol by volume (ABV) than other beers, typically between 0.5% to 2.8%.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Small beer · See more »

Starch

Starch or amylum is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Starch · See more »

Systembolaget

Systembolaget ("the System Company"), colloquially known as systemet ("the system") or bolaget ("the company"), is a government-owned chain of liquor stores in Sweden.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Systembolaget · See more »

Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Texas · See more »

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and The Wall Street Journal · See more »

Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution · See more »

U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and U.S. state · See more »

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and United Kingdom · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and United States · See more »

Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Utah · See more »

Volstead Act

The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the 18th Amendment (ratified January 1919), which established prohibition in the United States.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Volstead Act · See more »

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Washington, D.C. · See more »

Waverley Root

Waverley Lewis Root (April 15, 1903, in Providence, Rhode Island – October 31, 1982 in Paris) was an American journalist and writer.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Waverley Root · See more »

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Wisconsin · See more »

Wort

Wort is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky.

New!!: Low-alcohol beer and Wort · See more »

Redirects here:

3 2 beer, 3.2 beer, 3.2 percent beer, 3.2% alcohol beer, Alcohol free beer, Alcohol-free beer, Cereal beverage, Cereal beverages, De-alcoholized beer, Low alcohol beer, Low-point beer, NA beer, Near beer, Near-beer, Non-alc. Beer, Non-alc. beer, Non-alcohol beer, Non-alcoholic Beer, Non-alcoholic beer, Nonalcoholic beer, Small ale, Spiked beer, Three two beer, Three-two beer.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-alcohol_beer

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »