It says on the bottle not to be consumed by those under legal drinking age.
Nonalcoholic beer could very well be a healthier choice than cola.
Yes. The sugary cola. The diet version is not as bad as they say, though
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?
Rates of alcohol use and addiction have been decreasing.
This is just getting them started early like cigarettes always tried to do.
The real reason is you don’t. Not in every state. Some defined it by a strict measurable standard. Others defined it to close off what’s depicted in this image. Others defined it to describe what was banned as oppressed to what you measure, so that if you’re selling beer you can’t sell it to kids. No checking labels, no “well, it’s my home brew so I don’t know”. Is it beer? You can’t sell it to kids.
The last one is almost funny because you can almost feel the confusion about why the concept of non-alcoholic beer even exists.
Because it’s beer. Generally the way laws are written in the us, they call out beer, wine, and spirits, or some such wording, not being available to under 21s.
Laws generally do not mention alcohol content of whatever it is you’re buying.
Vice is difficult to regulate, and laws surrounding vice are imperfect
The same reason why vapes are considered “tobacco products” despite not containing any tobacco and considered “flavored” if they contain any flavor (or no flavor) besides “tobacco” flavor (which is actually just caramel flavoring since vape juice has no flavor by default). It’s because politicians are stupid and short sighted and most of these regulations make little sense outside of government control.
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.
Technically the drinking age isn’t a national law at all. Setting the state law to alignment is a precondition for national highway funding. A state can set the age to whatever they want, but the federal government wouldn’t give money for road maintenance.
As such, different states define a prohibited beverage in different ways. Some set the limit based on a set alcohol limit. Others based on intent or similarity, essentially so that they can prevent advertising alcoholfree beverages to kids and getting them in the habit at an impressionable age.
Most common is the abv limit based on what’s typically found naturally in juices and such, with limited exceptions for religious ceremonies, parental supervision, or accidental ingestion and such. (Technically speaking, if you call 911 because your 3 year old stole a canned alcoholic beverage off the counter and drank a bunch before you noticed and you’re scared, they would be required to also give you and the child legal penalties without that clause).
The only reason I can see someone choosing NA beer over real beer would be alcoholism but that seems to be playing with fire.
I choose NA beer for that exact reason and its been a really big tool for me to keep my sobriety. It works for some and for others it doesn’t but I am glad its available as an option for me. But had I never started drinking in the first place I would not like beer, so I am not sure why anyone would buy NA beer unless, like me, they are trying to scratch an itch that can’t be scratched like it was before.
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.
Oh no, don’t let the children… dilute their illegally acquired alcohol…
Correct, if they had access to that regular beer, they’d just drink the regular beer and not bother diluting it.
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:
Badweiser is accurate.
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.
This is most likely in Canada. And it’s illegal to advertise like this in Canada too.
But the whole thing is probably AI generated.
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.
