ZERO alcohol drinks on airlines

[Foreigner]

I came across this review, a year old, of beer with zero alcohol content:

10 Best Zero Alcohol Beers In Australia For 2024

We put our stomachs (and egos) on the line to test the best non-alcoholic beers in Australia.

www.dmarge.com

Do Qantas and other airlines serving Australia serve such beer (or, wine)?

Are they available in lounges like QF F for pre-flight drinks?

 

[AIRwin]

Do Qantas and other airlines serving Australia serve such beer (or, wine)?

Royal Brunei?

 

[jase05]

Peroni zero is in the VA ADL lounge

 

[billmurray]

Ashai 0% in the SYD VA lounge

 

[jb747]

How would the pilots ever work up enough courage to go flying?

 

[nodabs]

I stopped drinking a few years ago so I'm pretty across the non alc options, most INT flights QF have Heineken 0.0 (Dom J also) as do most dom lounges, sometimes you get better stuff like Heaps Normal. International lounges seem to be better SIN has/d zero alc Gin for mocktails(Zero alc gin and tonics are actually pretty good) HK has heaps normal. Japanese airlines are pretty good and have their local non alc option. options are steadily growing

 

[clifford]

I've never understood the point of zero alcohol beer, wine, spirits, etc.

I've tried a few and found them to not be particularly pleasant, so I'd rather just drink water than zero alcohol pretend drinks. Also, the price of such drinks is over the top, as there is no duty/tax/whatever on them, so they should cost no more than the average Coke, etc.

If you don't want an alcoholic drink why bother with a lame substitute. Just my point of view, but I understand that others' opinions/tastes will vary.

 

[SJF211]

I’m 99% sure QF carry Heineken zero’s. Definitely in the lounges but on board too.

 

[Mattg]

Qatar Airways serves a "luxury non-alcoholic bubbly" in J/F and in its first class lounge. I tried it last week and it was fine, but didn't really taste like champagne at all - just a nice sparkling grape juice/cider.

 

[p--and--t]

I've never understood the point of zero alcohol beer, wine, spirits, etc.

I've tried a few and found them to not be particularly pleasant, so I'd rather just drink water than zero alcohol pretend drinks. Also, the price of such drinks is over the top, as there is no duty/tax/whatever on them, so they should cost no more than the average Coke, etc.

If you don't want an alcoholic drink why bother with a lame substitute. Just my point of view, but I understand that others' opinions/tastes will vary.

A bit like vegan prawns, steaks and beef burgers

 

[Forg]

I've never understood the point of zero alcohol beer, wine, spirits, etc.

Beer I agree, it just doesn’t work.

Spirits … well, not spirits per se, but a lot of mocktails using some of the faux spirits are really tasty! Problem is that stuff’s a PITA to make & hence has a lot of costs for what you get, but setting that aside heaps of those are super tasty!

And as @Mattg says, a decent number of sparkling no-alcohol wines are interesting & tasty sparkling grape juices; the traditional ones like Grapetizer are overwhelmingly sweet.

A bit like vegan prawns, steaks and beef burgers

Vegan prawns would be an improvement? I always thought snails were like prawns but without the rotting-seaweed component of the flavour …

But yeah trying to be meat is a bit of a fail if you’re a vegetable. Better tasting (and probably less unhealthy due to the lack of the need for all sorts of fats/oils to add not-really-meat flavour) alternatives abound without pretending to not be what you are, Mr Potato!

 

[ANstar]

I love a non alc sparkling wine... As far as I know though QF only have non alc beer which as mentioned before is Heineken 0. The F lounge in SIN does have sparkling wine without alcohol.

Zero Alc is a growing market and there are actually some good ones out there.. I really like the Red Hill Pinot Noir Zero.

 

[nodabs]

I've never understood the point of zero alcohol beer, wine, spirits, etc.

I've tried a few and found them to not be particularly pleasant, so I'd rather just drink water than zero alcohol pretend drinks. Also, the price of such drinks is over the top, as there is no duty/tax/whatever on them, so they should cost no more than the average Coke, etc.

If you don't want an alcoholic drink why bother with a lame substitute. Just my point of view, but I understand that others' opinions/tastes will vary.

After I exercised myself into an arrhythmia IN had to basically choose between riding 15 hours a week and booze which was a pretty easy decision(for me riding...) but sometimes you just want something bubbly and refreshing and not sweet. A few years ago I'd agree that NA was pretty poor but in the last 4 years the rise of craft NA or more specifically the ultra low .5% beers rather than the big manufacturers 0.0 which due to the way the remove the ethanol end up pretty thin and tinny tasting. I have a couple of NA beers almost every day now and really couldn't tell the difference with some.

For the first little while after giving up booze in australia you get unending stick from people but I've generally found replying with something along the lines of "I dunno man I guess my life just doesn't require daily sedation to forget about" usually shuts people up hahaha, and to be fair I do miss a PDB or caraf of house wine at lunch in Paris

 

[SOPOOR]

I had a heieneken zero recently.

Twas very nice, real tasting. Quite pleasant

 

[Foreigner]

The H zero is served here but I’ve stuck to Margaret River chard tonight in QF F in SIN

 

[Chicken]

I've never understood the point of zero alcohol beer, wine, spirits, etc.

When you don't want to pee?

(Did you know that alcohol makes you pee?)

I now drink 0% at gigs and festivals. Since I started drinking 0%, I can now stay in the mosh pit for the whole night, that means, go to the toilet at sunset, then stay in the mosh pit until midnight. Before I started drinking 0%, I would be busting and trying to hold it in towards the end of the night at 11 PM or midnight. As anyone who had been to gigs would know, if you leave the mosh pit, you lose your spot, and you often have no chance of getting back in.

Hence, to me, 0% is actually useful.

Back to when flying because this is AFF: If you don't want to go to the toilet (let's be honest, the toilet is the last place I want to be, even in business cabin), drink 0% or just don't drink. I hardly drink when flying now, for the same reason. I hate the toilets on planes, more than my love of trying new wine. I can drink interesting wine when I'm back on the ground.

I've tried a few and found them to not be particularly pleasant

Heaps Normal is actually good. Heineken is very average. 0% Corona is just dreadful.

so I'd rather just drink water than zero alcohol pretend drinks. Also, the price of such drinks is over the top, as there is no duty/tax/whatever on them, so they should cost no more than the average Coke, etc.

You would not be drinking outside if you were truly considering the price of your drinks, let's be honest. I mean, why would you pay $3.5 for a cup of Coke from Maccas when you could buy 2L from Coles for $2.5?