N/A is allowed up to 0.5% alcohol, 0.0% contains none.
Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
We have purchased the N/A Corona from time to time. I still have to flash my ID to purchase N/A drinks.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
yeah same
uberfreeza@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think it depends on where you’re at. I’ve been taught to ID even for N/A beers (because usually when advertised as such, they are allowed something like 0.5% or less ABV). But also, what kid would enjoy the taste of beer? Even the stereotype that’s how teens want to drink all the time, the lack of alcohol takes all of the fun out of that stereotype. As an adult, I only drink ciders and wines, which has kid versions of soda and grape juice.
robin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
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.
Even the grocers (and even manufacturers) get it all messed up. 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 soda.
But the larger companies that sell it are just misclassifying it and creating problems to be as lazy and risk avoidant as possible.
Another counter example that disproves the misunderstanding is kombucha. Kombucha has naturally occurring alcohol, but it’s not classified as some weird category. The legal categories are “Alcoholic beverage” Or “Not alcoholic beverage.”
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 days ago
I drank beer more often at 16 (which was the drinking when I was growing up) than I do now. And I did it for the flavour. Though granted I had better choices than american “Budweiser”.