By tasting traditional and non -alcoholic beer you will hardly separate

« Many brewers and sommelier today pay a lot of attention to improving the tastes of non -alcoholic beer. Švyturys beer sommelier Jonas Lingys.

According to him, non -alcoholic beer today has all the most important beer -specific taste properties and even its peculiar pleasant distinctions, so it would not be appropriate to keep it a substitute.

“Of course, it all started with the traditional Extra beer, namely the first non -alcoholic beer made in our brewery. Today, however, this is a different peculiar category of drinks. It is already a great and complete drink that you no longer have to think that it has something less than it should be, ”said beer sommelier.

Jonas Lingys. Photo by R. Slavyk

According to him, non -alcoholic camps are still the most popular in Lithuania and the world, as it retains the most similarity to traditional beer, but lately non -alcoholic IPA beer, « Stauta », as well as alcohol -free beer, have become very popular.

There are still space for experiments

J Lingys remembers that the first non -alcoholic beers to be found in the country’s stores were more like sweet malnar drinks.

In the past, the simplest way was to make such beer, and the worst way is to stop the fermentation of beer. In this way, the alcohol is unable to stand out, the sweet malt taste remains, but all the other tastes of beer are not obtained.

« The first non -alcoholic beer was more like sweet hop tea than beer. We have come greatly to the true beer taste over two decades. Modern methods allow alcohol to remove alcohol from already cooked traditional beer. Of course, its taste will never be one hundred percent as regular beer, but today – J. Lingys taught.

According to him, only alcohol is removed from beer today with special filtration technology, so all the properties of regular beer remain.

The first non -alcoholic beer was more like sweet hop tea than beer. Over two decades, we have been very close to the true taste of beer.

J. Lingys claims that non -alcoholic beer can already be considered a relatively old product, boiling many famous brewers for decades.

« Even in the main world competitions we participate, non -alcoholic beer came about twenty years or fifteen years ago. Recently, not only non -alcoholic beer categories, but also many different categories have emerged, so non -alcoholic beer is very rapid and is recognized as the world’s most famous beer. »

However, the interlocutor is considering, perfection has not yet been achieved, so the future will emerge in the future of non -alcoholic beer.

« Brewers still have a lot of opportunities for improvement. For example, today there are already invented yeast, which does not release alcohol during fermentation. But all beer around the world is boiling from four main ingredients – malt, water, hops and yeast – and we will not change them,

More comfortable alternatives

The beer connoisseur says he is convinced again that the boom of non -alcoholic beer is only accelerating.

It is clear that non -alcoholic beer is becoming an increasingly popular choice in summer and at various events. According to J. Lingis, this trend was perfectly visible at various concerts, at the Sea Festival, Brewers’ Day Festival.

« Lighthouse Extra non -alcoholic » is produced in the traditional way, later from its microfilration by removing alcohol. Photo by partner

It also wants to taste beer and combine it with food, who are driving, going to work meetings. In addition, people say, people are increasingly paying attention to alcohol consumption and choosing non -alcoholic beer to reduce it.

« Non -alcoholic beer, beer cocktails, radlers are gaining popularity very quickly because they can be used not only as an alternative to any alcoholic beer, but also as a substitute for a high -sugar drink, various fruity, etc.

According to him, in Lithuania, the trends of non -alcoholic beer consumption are extremely felt and outperforming several Western countries. In addition, the choice of non -alcoholic beer here is much larger than most other beer -loving countries.

Evaluated by both professional and consumer

The interlocutor notes that the most popular non -alcoholic « Lighthouse Extra » beer in Lithuania, which became a recipe for Beer Beer with a brewing flagship, is strange that this non -alcoholic beer consumers liked it so much.

Last year, the Swiss Certification Organization Icertias, Švyturys-Utena Alus, evaluated non-alcoholic beer for the second year in a row with the highest quality certificate Qudal. Top Quality Medal). Most of the respondents identified the « lighthouse » as the highest quality of non -alcoholic beer producer.

The first « Extra » beer brewer in Klaipeda cooked back in 1995 and has not changed its successful recipe for three decades. During this time, Extra has repeatedly triumphed at the prestigious World Beer Cup awards, which are attended by the world’s largest number of brewers, and the commission values ​​thousands of products.

A decade ago, the World Beer Awards was awarded the Golden Medal in the Camp category and recognized as the best Dortmunder beer in Europe. This golden title was also awarded to the brewer in 2021.

« For thirty years, its taste has been unrivaled – many prestigious awards in global competitions, the first choice of beer lovers, » added J. Lingys