Non - alcohol-dependent beer does n’t taste all that practiced . This week on Happy Hour we tried three non - alcoholic beers and felt only slightly hydrated afterwards .

Welcome to Gizmodo’sHappy Hour . Substance abuse for nerds .

First up , we adjudicate O’Doul ’s Amber , and it was by far the near of the crowd , though still not very unspoiled . Like most of the beers , it taste like carbonate pee with some beer flavoring throw in .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

https://gizmodo.com/the-science-of-non-alcoholic-beer-509674407

Next , we try Coors , which was entirely unremarkable . It did n’t savour anything like what I ’ve been told Coors actually taste like . So , there ’s that . The terminal non - alcohol-dependent beer we adjudicate was Becks , which was passably disgusting .

Watch me and my colleague Bryan Mengus suffer though the excruciate project of trying all of these horrible non - alcoholic beer :

William Duplessie

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