Weak, small and free: How no and low alcohol is finding power without strength

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As people cut down and cut out booze, no and low alcohol drinks are pouring onto the market. Brewer Jaega wise explores this show against strength that's shaking up alcohol sector. Jane Peyton from the School of Booze puts on a tasting session at London's first no alcohol bar Redemption and there Jaega and Jane meet Laura Willoughby and Jussi Tolvi, founders of a mindful drinking movement called Club Soda. Jaega heads to Small Beer where they're reviving the tradition of weak beers that before water purification were drunk by everyone, even school children. She visits Nirvana, a low alcohol and zero alcohol brewery in Leyton, East London, and talks bubbling apothecary with Ben Branson from non-alcoholic spirit, Seedlip.

Producer: Tom Bonnett

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0:45.0	Just over there on the other side of the River Lee in Willemstowe is the brewery where I work.
0:52.0	I'm Jager Weise and I'm the head brewer of Wildcar Brewery,
0:55.0	but I've crossed the water today to visit a company who quite frankly couldn't
0:59.3	organize a piss-up in a brewery. Well not their own brewery anyway. That's because I'm here at
1:04.5	Nevada brewery and all the beers are alcohol free. Did you want those?
1:10.0	I've seen a massive growth in the non-alcoholic sector, especially over the last year to 18 months.
1:20.4	What we're seeing in beer is established brands coming out with non-alcoholic
1:27.4	lines so I'm really interested because I know just how difficult it is to make low alcohol beer. Making alcohol
1:36.6	it's not that hard it's relatively easy the yeast is most of the work for
1:42.0	you but to make a product that tastes like a beer,
1:45.4	that looks like a beer, but without the booze, now that's a challenge.
1:49.2	Hi, hi, nice to meet you.
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