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We learned that yeast produces ethanol as a waste product during fermentation, and that it is this "waste" that is in alcoholic beverages. So is "non-alcoholic" beer made without yeast at all, or is the ethanol somehow removed?
Question Date: 2005-02-21
Answer 1:

Non-alcoholic beer is brewed as normal beer, but during the finishing stages of the brewing process the alcohol is removed by vacuum evaporation. This process takes advantage of the different boiling points of water and alcohol. All non-alcoholic beer has some amount of alcohol in them. The definition of non-alcoholic beer might vary from country to country, from max 0.1 percent to max. 0.5 percent alcohol by volume.



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