Buying non-alcoholic beer

[bud_2005]

Just curious how old do you have to be to buy NA beer. I'm 18 by the way. Does it matter by state?

 

[familyguyfan]

What's the point of non-alcoholic beer? I mean, I do enjoy the taste of beer, and I'll drink it, but I don't like it enough that I would buy beer without alcohol in it.

And since it doesn't have alcohol, why do you have to be a certain age to buy it?

 

[bud_2005]

Well if I couldn't find a buyer some night I might want to buy some. Note there is some alcohol in it. .05% alcohol in NA beer compared to 5% in most beers.

 

[diablo]

So far as I know, there is no age requirement for NA beer. Go ahead and try to buy it; even if you do have to be a certain age, the only thing they'll tell you is "Sorry, you're not old enough."

On a side note, it's interesting to drink it - we gave it to one of our friends a year or two back without letting him know there was no alcohol in it... about 10 beers later, he was drunk as hell. Odd, but I guess there's a psychological explanation for it somewhere.

 

[penkitten]

y bother?

 

[quest]

Originally posted by bud_2005
Well if I couldn't find a buyer some night I might want to buy some. Note there is some alcohol in it. .05% alcohol in NA beer compared to 5% in most beers.

you'd need to drink about 100 of them before u really started to get pissed..
so if you start on saturday, by tuesday, you'll be drunk!

actually, i think the alcohol would probably leave ur body faster then u could get it in there..

good luck

 

[diablo]

On second thought, if you're 18 - just go to a bar. All you've got to do is go up to anyone at the bar and say "Hey, can you get me a XXXXXX... here's the money, along with $1 for a tip... thanks".

Now you're good to go.

 

[Dimebag_Darrell]

buying and drinking non alcoholic brew would be like saying that I'm George Steinbrenner and I own the Yankees, i mean c'mon!

 

[quest]

Originally posted by diablo
On second thought, if you're 18 - just go to a bar. All you've got to do is go up to anyone at the bar and say "Hey, can you get me a XXXXXX... here's the money, along with $1 for a tip... thanks".

Now you're good to go.

whats the deal with america?
at 18, you can go into a bar with people who are allowed to drink, but ur not allowed to drink?
that SEEMS like a really bad system..

 

[Vincent]

Originally posted by quest
whats the deal with america?
at 18, you can go into a bar with people who are allowed to drink, but ur not allowed to drink?
that SEEMS like a really bad system..

Don't go there.

 

[penkitten]

Originally posted by quest
whats the deal with america?
at 18, you can go into a bar with people who are allowed to drink, but ur not allowed to drink?
that SEEMS like a really bad system..

our system is we dont want all our young people dying in car wrecks, so they should stay home and drink beer in the basement or out on the back porch with grandpa like we have done for centuries:rock:

 

[Vasko]

i dont know about that, but whats really pissed some people off is that you can go to war at 18 and kill people, but you cant have a beer!

 

[Jay-X]

Originally posted by diablo

On a side note, it's interesting to drink it - we gave it to one of our friends a year or two back without letting him know there was no alcohol in it... about 10 beers later, he was drunk as hell. Odd, but I guess there's a psychological explanation for it somewhere.

while you are drinking, you usually don't want people to think that you're drunk, so you start to talk a lot trying to be perfectly in control, in order to demonstrate that you are not getting drunk yet. when you talk non-stop for some minutes, plus you are happy because you are with your friends and you all are about to get drunk, endorphine is released through your body and you become pretty euphoric. so, even if you are drinking water and you think it's a vodka (you must be pretty stupid), after 10 glasses, you'll start saying bullsh1t and people will think you are drunk. this is also why it takes many more glasses to get drunk when you are alone, than when you are out with your buddies.

it's just my opinion

 

[PRMoon]

Originally posted by familyguyfan
What's the point of non-alcoholic beer? I mean, I do enjoy the taste of beer, and I'll drink it, but I don't like it enough that I would buy beer without alcohol in it.

And since it doesn't have alcohol, why do you have to be a certain age to buy it?

My former friend back in Maryland got 3 dui's and decided to switch to non alcoholic brew. He really does like the taste of beer that much, he just doesn't know when to say when, when it comes to being retardedly drunk.

*sigh* he hands out with a girl who I also knew and is kinda in the same spot he is but she still gets drunk. Those poor bastards, they'll never leave maryland.

 

[PRMoon]

Originally posted by Vasko
i dont know about that, but whats really pissed some people off is that you can go to war at 18 and kill people, but you cant have a beer!

When you're in the army you can get access to alcohol no problem. I got a marine buddy who'd call me drunk from his base telling me about all the hookers they had dancing on their tables and going back to their barracks for "after parties".

I suppose the military should let them drink though conciderng they're working for not a lot of money and it's in their job decription to "eliminate hostile forces"