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Non-alcoholic beer for under-aged people? I'm interested in poll results, but also in any further comments!
#craftbeer #NAbeer #alcoholfreebeer
So... NA beer for kids?
@tastingcraftbeer No way. Even the non alco contains a tiny trace of booze the way they make them over here.
However, it seems that it's becoming more and acceptable for teenagers to enjoy NA. Especially when related to sports.
@apicultor@hachyderm.io@janbartosik @tastingcraftbeer Seriously? Are you going to prohibit anyone under 18 from consuming kefir too?
@apicultor @tastingcraftbeer The difference between ripe fruits, kefir and beer is surely bigger than just (even comparable) content of alcohol in each, right?
@janbartosik @apicultor no. A ripe pear or banana can easily have a few percent of alcohol, much more than what would be NA beer here (.1%abv or below, .5%abv in many countries). Even a fresh OJ can easily have a few tenths of a percent.
@janbartosik @apicultor or did you mean that at comparable abv, the fruit of a better option than the beer? If so: why?
@janbartosik @tastingcraftbeer The question was:
>Non-alcoholic beer for under-aged people?
Your response was:
>No way. Even the non alco contains a tiny trace of booze the way they make them over here.
I cannot parse that as anything other than "absolutely any amount of alcohol, no matter how minuscule, is unacceptable for under-aged people".
Is that what you meant or not? If not, what did you mean?
@apicultor @tastingcraftbeer
Perhaps I should have said something like "...any amount of alcohol, no matter how minuscule, is unacceptable for under-aged people in the form of beer".
Especially in a country like ours, where there's a massive (beer) drinking habit/problem and folks consume 140 litres of beer per head on average.
Makes more sense? :)
@janbartosik @tastingcraftbeer Is the problem the alcohol? If so, given that they'd need to drink 50 bottles of 0.1% beer to equal the alcohol content of one bottle of 5% beer, how is this a problem given that their stomachs literally couldn't fit such a volume of liquid?
Or is it the fact that the term "beer" is used, along with a similar flavour? In which case, why focus on the minuscule alcohol content?
Either way, your position still doesn't make sense.
@apicultor @tastingcraftbeer Beer is a product meant to be consumed by grown-ups. It is an adult thing, not suitable for kids regardless of % of alcohol in it.
I find this view fairly common in my bubble of 40+ parents 
@janbartosik @apicultor i find that view fairly common too. I'm not opposed to it, but I certainly would like to understand the rationale.
Somehow we allow kids to drink red bull, but not alcohol-free beer. Guess which choice would be better for them.
@tastingcraftbeer @janbartosik I would much rather they drink Tourtel Twist (which technically begins life as beer but barely resembles it once they're done with it) than Red Bull or Monster Energy.