In the heat of the summer, there’s sometimes nothing better than a satisfying, ice-cold beer. Unfortunately, beers can be a source of “empty calories ... alcohol and non-alcoholic beverages ...

In recent years, however, both smaller breweries and longstanding beer corporations have developed non-alcoholic ... they vary widely when it comes to calorie and carbohydrate content.

But are these beers better for you than regular beer? For BBC Radio ... there are still more calories in alcoholic beers. Some people worry that non-alcoholic options encourage people to drink ...

“Alcohol contains calories, so you’ll have less calories in a non-alcoholic beer versus an alcoholic one,” says Bridget Benelam, nutrition scientist, the British Nutrition Foundation.

It’s a good beer, period. If you don’t like the IPAs or just want something different in your non-alcoholic rotation, this European-style lager is one to try. Plus, each can only contains 54 calories.

To help, we pored over the available non-alcoholic options ... “Hold my beer.” The company emerged from R&D in 2019 with 0.0, a 69-calorie liquor-free lager made using the brand’s signature ...