You still have to be 21 to buy NA beer. Even if its 0.0, the stores will get in trouble for not carding.
Why doe?
Ok, I did the digging on this because you asked. I actually just assumed because I was carded for NA beer that this was a law.
In the US, federally it is not illegal to sell less than 0.5% without carding. But many states treat NA beer the same as normal beer and they require the person be over 21. In the states that do not require 21 and over for NA beer many (most) stores and bars will still card because its better safe than sorry when it comes to ABC and losing your license.
So even tho it might be legal, you are probably still going to get carded, except at this place I guess.
But also I am struggling to understand why someone would choose to drink NA beer if they didn’t already know what real beer was like and was trying to avoid it by getting the NA kind (like me). Like - NA beer costs the same as real beer, just buy literally anything else to drink and its cheaper.
The only reason I can see someone choosing NA beer over real beer would be alcoholism but that seems to be playing with fire.
Eliminating reasonableness is the first step in creating an abusive legal system.
Sure, because teens won’t buy 0 % beer and mix in some regular beers, that would never happen.
What a desperate piece of signage
“Great for drivers!” If you still want to smell like alcohol when you get pulled over but without having drank any.
Now we just need a platform for kids to gamble away their crayon colors so that they’re ready to do the same with their very first paycheck.
So, just shitty barley tea being advertised by ai slop
I’ll bet there is a “subscription” involved somewhere.
The AI slop used to generate the ad poster contained a nice suggestion for an alternative name for this crap:
It’s evolving and recognizes shit beer.
The sign is AI generated.
makes me question if Budweiser did this or if the store did
Budweiser probably did it. In every grocery store I’ve seen, the beer vendors set up all the displays.
I went to a microbrewery/restaurant recently that had kid’s beer in the menu. It was just juices and stuff, but it still felt fucking scummy.
The amount of adult stuff being deliberately pointed at children has increased quite a lot over even just the past couple years, because the corporations know that no one is going to come after them for it.
Hell, at my work, we replaced a court-ordered anti-smoking sign with a giant wall of cigarettes, so that we could make room for a bunch of new fruity flavors of nicotine pouches so that kids can become new addicts.
I suspect this is legal because “under aged” in the US doesnt explicitly mean “under 18”, since the legal drinking age is 21.
You didn’t like the smooth draw of a candy cigarette as a kid?
I can almost taste the chalk now.
It’s always been the goal to get children consuming products. It’s a known function of humans that they usually stick to whatever they were doing when they were kids well into adulthood. It’s harder to convince an adult with pre-established routines and preferred products to switch over.
You’re right though that it’s getting pretty blatant now, but that’s to be expected as we dismantle food and drug regulations.
I don’t know if this is a hot take or not but alcohol free beer is pointless. I don’t believe anybody actually drinks beer for the taste because it objectively doesn’t taste all that great, people like beer because of the association it has with having a good time with your friends, nobody drinks it as a refreshing beverage.
The fact that beer doesn’t actually taste all that good is why people invented cocktails.
I don’t drink sparkling water but I like ma beer. It’s light and refreshing and nice to have very occasionally.
Not true at all. I love the taste of beer alone, AND in combination with certain foods. Not all beer of course, they make so many different kinds that it would be impossible to love them all.
I’m not going through the trouble and expense of cooking a steak if there isn’t going to be a beer accompanying it.
I don’t believe anybody actually drinks beer for the taste because it objectively doesn’t taste all that great
That’s like, your opinion man.
Plenty of people, like me, drink beer for the taste. I’m not all that fond of sweet drinks, so I actually tend to dislike cocktails or mixed drinks.
I actually like the taste of beer, especially the bitterness and a bit of fruity taste without being sweet.
And i am very glad that here in Germany there is a lot of analcoholic beer available, because very often i want the taste without the drug.
Still i agree with you that the memory of good times with beer makes it even better. I know a lot of people that don’t like the taste so much. So probably i am the outlier here.
in Germany there is a lot of ANALcoholic beer available
Great.
I disagree as I find craft beer quite delicious . I try not to consume alcohol though as I don’t need to kill my brain anymore than I have…
Just what we always wanted.
The enjoyment of beer without all that pesky euphoria.
Alcohol never did anything for me except make me sleepy. And now with kidney failure I can’t have social anyway.
I keep na beer because I like the taste and probably every month or so have one with pizza or something.
Even cheap beer is fine.
Not only 0% alcohol, also 0% taste and 0% beer. There are great alcohol free beers out there btw. This ain’t it.
If you try them in Europe they are great. And even there underage kids are not allowed to buy them
What’s this actually taste like? I figure it’s basically what they added to bud light to make bud select if it wasn’t just water. Bud light - 110 calories, 4.2% alc. Select - 55 calories 2.1% alcohol.
I remember looking at it when it came out and thinking they filled half the bottle with carbonated water and sold it for slightly more.
What is it with Americans and bud light anyway. It’s the worst version of the product and yet for some reason it’s really popular in the US.
Because you can drink it all day and still drive home.
I’d say this is sarcasm, but I live in a rural area and have heard it calls ‘driving beer’ before. And looking in the ditches, it appears to be true.
I still get carded often when I buy NA beer. Often the cashier will even acknowledge that it’s NA but say that they still have to card me.
I think a lot of it is due to stupid shop policies. I have been refused sale of a teaspoon for not having ID.
Yup. I got carded at Home Depot when buying a saw blade because “it could be used as a weapon”.
I always thought it was because there is alcohol in it still. NA beer I thought was classified as .5% or less. So legally they are still regulated.
Alcohol free is 0%.
They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):
> 0.5% it’s beer and subject to alcohol laws
< 0.5% it’s not beer, technically a soda or something
So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category. This creates a lot of confusion for some reason. Hell, half the brands don’t have required nutritional info (beer doesn’t need it, soda does) but the real problem is that:
The regulatory agencies are captured and don’t do shit anymore. TECHNICALLY the FDA should be stepping in and making them put full nutritional information on all the brands of NA “beer” and making sure it is labeled and sold like a food. But they don’t.
Counter example: kombucha has naturally occurring alcohol, but you don’t see anyone getting carded for it and you have the regular nutritional label on it.
Apple juice can contain around 0.5% alcohol though?
Because people aren’t making irrational claims yelling at companies who make juice. Eating a banana or drinking juices that are higher in glucose aren’t going to hurt you in any measurable way that the sugar won’t hurt you so drastically more.
Bread also.
The 0.0% on the poster must legally be without alcohol whatsoever. What you have in mind is a confusingly named non-alcoholic beer which goes under the official alcoholic beer radar.
I quite enjoy ‘Supermalt’, a malt drink with NO alcohol. It has a large warning for 18+ on the shelves at Tesco, yet I’m not carded on checkout.
