Craft brewer partners with Sustainable Beverage Technologies to create flavorful beer
Bend, Ore.-based Deschutes Brewery recently embarked on a new endeavor to create a high-quality non-alcohol beer that rivals the experience of a full-strength craft beer. The result is Deschutes’ alcohol-free Irish Stout, a traditional Irish-style stout with coffee-like roasted malt character, light chocolate and a dry, light-bodied drinking experience.
For decades, the most prevalent non-alcohol beers have been lager styles. Deschutes paved the way for craft with Black Butte Porter, a dark beer among lagers, and thinks with its longstanding commitment to quality and reputation in the craft brewing industry, the craft brewer can do this again in the non-alcohol craft beer segment by bringing a more flavorful craft drinking experience to this growing category, it says.