[MangezBien]

I don't drink because of a medication I take and I miss beer with certain types of food. For so long the best available was beer flavored water. It makes me so happy that I now have a wide range to choose from.

[mesh]

Note, most Non-Alcoholic beer actually has a small amount of alcohol (usually around 0.5%) which can add up depending how much you drink.

[oh_sigh]

Drinking an entire 6-pack of 0.5% beer is equivalent of drinking 6oz of a "normal" 6% beer. And I suspect people who drink non-alcoholic beer generally don't binge drink them. But I guess it may be important if you really can't drink any alcohol at all. But there are also beers labeled as truly 0.0%, not just "less than 0.5%"

[MangezBien]

I don't think I can physically drink enough NA beer for it to be an issue :D

[ndonnellan]

I think the legal definition of NA beer is maximum of 0.5%.

I may be misremembering, but I think Athletic Brewing mentioned their beers are closer to 0.2 -> 0.3% on average.

But even at 0.5%, that would be 10 NA beers to add up to one average alcoholic beer at 5% assuming equal volumes.

[debacle]

Most fresh squeezed orange juice has a higher alcohol content than 0.5%

[LukeShu]

The only good-ish citation for alcohol content in OJ I could find is https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5421578/ which found 0.16–0.73 g/L ethanol content in OJ (but with low sample size, so...). To 1 sig-fig, ethanol has a density of 0.8 g/cm³, so that comes out to an ABV of 0.02%–0.09%; much lower than 0.5%.

[Falling3]

Got a source on that? What I'm seeing is 0.16% as a high for orange juice.

[debacle]

Looking for a source, but oranges on the tree can be up to 4% alcohol when picked.

All of my DDG searches are just telling me how to make swill from concentrated orange juice.

[Falling3]

Aren't oranges typically picked well before much if any fermentation has had a chance to take place?