Big Drop is one of the UK's specialist alcohol-free breweries — they brew exclusively low and no alcohol beer, which means every product in their range is designed from the ground up without alcohol rather than dealcoholised after the fact. The Pine Trail Pale Ale is their flagship and it shows that approach paying off. Big Drop Pine Trail Pal Ale Ingredients: water, malted barley, oats, hops (Citra, Mosaic), yeast. The pour is a clear pale amber with a decent off-white head

St Austell spent over two years developing the 0.5% version of their flagship IPA, and it shows. Where some alcohol-free IPAs arrive thin and unconvincing — all aroma, no follow-through — Proper Job 0.5% actually delivers on the promise of the style. Brewed with the same Cascade, Willamette and Chinook hops as the full-strength original, it hits citrus, grapefruit and a faint pineapple note in the right order. St Austell Proper Job IPA 0.5% Ingredients: water, malted barley,

Adnams takes its full-strength Ghost Ship 4.5% pale ale and removes the alcohol using reverse osmosis — the same beer, just dealcoholised — which gives it a head start over drinks brewed specifically without alcohol from the outset. Ghost Ship 0.5% Ingredients: water, malted barley, wheat, hops, yeast. The pour is amber and clear with a soft white head. The aroma is the highlight — elderflower, citrus, a faint gooseberry note that is distinctly English despite the American ho