I don’t know if this is a hot take or not but alcohol free beer is pointless. I don’t believe anybody actually drinks beer for the taste because it objectively doesn’t taste all that great, people like beer because of the association it has with having a good time with your friends, nobody drinks it as a refreshing beverage.
The fact that beer doesn’t actually taste all that good is why people invented cocktails.
Just what we always wanted.
The enjoyment of beer without all that pesky euphoria.
Not only 0% alcohol, also 0% taste and 0% beer. There are great alcohol free beers out there btw. This ain’t it.
If you try them in Europe they are great. And even there underage kids are not allowed to buy them
What’s this actually taste like? I figure it’s basically what they added to bud light to make bud select if it wasn’t just water. Bud light - 110 calories, 4.2% alc. Select - 55 calories 2.1% alcohol.
I remember looking at it when it came out and thinking they filled half the bottle with carbonated water and sold it for slightly more.
What is it with Americans and bud light anyway. It’s the worst version of the product and yet for some reason it’s really popular in the US.
I still get carded often when I buy NA beer. Often the cashier will even acknowledge that it’s NA but say that they still have to card me.
I always thought it was because there is alcohol in it still. NA beer I thought was classified as .5% or less. So legally they are still regulated.
Alcohol free is 0%. Edit: This might not be true either, I just saw saying alcohol free may also have alcohol up to .5%
The 0.0% on the poster must legally be without alcohol whatsoever. What you have in mind is a confusingly named non-alcoholic beer which goes under the official alcoholic beer radar.
yeah that’s what I was saying
I quite enjoy ‘Supermalt’, a malt drink with NO alcohol. It has a large warning for 18+ on the shelves at Tesco, yet I’m not carded on checkout.
That will have been because whoever shelved it didn’t know what it was.
We can also buy 0.5% shandy at any age.
Looks like a ChatGPT poster
It is a chatgpt poster
Yep it always does those stupid lines on either side
This shit should be illegal zero alcohol or not we should not allow advertisement of beer to children. Where the fuck protect the children groups on this shit?
Lmao. They don’t ACTUALLY give a fuck about children.
German here. I’m absolutely flabbergasted that this incomprehensible opinion has 20 upvotes.
0% alcohol is 0% alcohol. What the fuck are you talking about?
Absolute fringe opinion even in Germany. Most shops and bars refuse to serve 0.0 to teens below legal drinking age (which already is ridiculously low), ads also don’t target them.
There used to be candy that looked like cigarettes and soft drinks made to look like a champagne bottles, and at some point we decided that was not a good idea.
I drink and I smoke, but I also think it’s not a good idea to get children used to those things. You can drink responsibly but there’s no quantity of alcohol that does zero damage, and the less we get young people used to them the better.
I drink and I smoke, but I also think it’s not a good idea to get children used to those things.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a “one size fits all solution”. When I was a kid, I had the candy cigarettes, champagne bottles, cap-guns to play " cops and robbers", and bb-guns to “shoot things” (trash usually)
As an adult, I don’t smoke, I’ll have a beer once a month or less, and I haven’t robbed any banks nor go hunting. Mainly because, as an adult, I’m not interested in those things.
However, as a child, these were tools to pretend and often pretending involves replicating your environment. I definitely grew-up in a rural area, but on (80-90s) television when everyone is smoking and drinking, your relatives smoke and drink - it’s normalized.
I would argue that the social shift towards no smoking and less drinking for adults, has a greater affect on children than a ban on stick shaped candy in a box.
(Now marketing vaping to young people with addictive “fun” chemical flavoring: that is evil and should be banned)
edit: fixed a couple of words
I drink non-alcoholic beer because I like the flavor of beer.
there’s no quantity of alcohol that does zero damage
There’s also no non-alcoholic fruit juice, so you should be all for 0% beer, which has less alcohol than any carton of apple juice you can buy.
It’s not really about the alcohol content per se.
The issue is getting young and impressionable children used to the idea of drinking beer.
So, there are these things called candy cigarettes. They are candy shaped like cigarettes. Despite simply being things like bubble gum or chocolate, it turns out that people who ate them as kids are about twice as likely to smoke real cigarettes as adults. This has resulted in them being banned as advertising tobacco products to children in a good number of countries. This add for nonalcoholic beer specifically saying that minors can buy it can easily be argued to be the same kind of thing, with the same kind of legal response. If consuming non-alcoholic beer as a minor results in significantly higher rates of alcohol consumption as an adult, then ads for non-alcoholic beer that target children, like the one shown, might be worth a ban.
Guess we have give it a different name than… My proposal: Freer
What does you being German have anything to do with it? Completely ignoring that no, being able to legally advertise it as 0% doesn’t mean it has 0%, in Germany non-alcoholic beer is still beer and doesn’t get advertised to children. That would be fucking insane to do.
I’m also German but nobody should advertise harmful drugs to children.
Agreed, but also including teenagers.
This is very likely form the US where u need to be 21 to buy beer. So even a 20 year old would be a child to you? This is dumb af.
Why? Because it is also ~0%sugar? Ban ads for coke instead.
Edit: know a lot of people saying that 0%beer tastes not the same (what I can agree on) and thats why they do not drink alc free beer. Could imagine the effect works also the other way round.
let’s just ban all ads. That’d make me happy.
The “protect the children” groups have federal cover now to actively harm children, which is what they always wanted to do anyway
That’s what I immediately thought of as well
I live in California and they card me at my local grocery store if I buy 0% beer.
I’ve never seen a beer with 0% alcohol before, they are all usually .5% and less if marked NA or such
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jesus christ this is blatant child advertising and child harm. Fuck Budweiser.
They saw that younger people aren’t drinking nearly as much, so they thought this might be a solution? Get kids used to the flavor earlier?
Sadly, I’m sure there are plenty of shitty parents who would buy this for their kids.
I don’t think there’s many parents that would buy this for their kids. I grew up knowing friends parents would would just straight up buy you actual beer. But knowing them, if they saw this, I imagine them saying “Then what’s the fucking point??? Pussyass bullshit!” While at the same time putting 2-24packs in the cart, and then saying “For you and your little friends when they get here.”
Wtf is the point??
Is someone out there drinking Budweiser…for the taste?
Is there a difference between Budweiser and having sex in a canoe? Nope. Both are fucking close to water.
I have a parent who will only drink “lite” beer. I do not understand it. It takes like shitty water.
In my experience it’s because they’re drinking 18 of them and don’t want to be sloppy drunk after 10-12 hours. I prefer the more direct method of hard liquor to be more efficient but I get the thought process.
It’s to beer what LaCroix is to fruit juice.
Maybe they’re keeping a better balance of hydration to alcohol for their old brain, and not having a fruity or sweet taste but not boring plain water as well. Lite beer can occasionally be refreshing. Although personally I’d rather pour half a beer into a cup of ice than drink most light beers.
Wow this is terrible and also cherry on top ai created sign 100%
What makes you think it’s AI?
Look at the text on the beer can. It’s gibberish.
Lol it actually says “Badweiser”. That’s pretty funny.
Lol @ “it’s Polish”
I have a better one for you: what if Budweiser themselves used AI to create the label, and it’s actually a real photo? What if we have entered an age of… Whatever that horror is
Why are you saying this?
It’s gibberish.
Someone’s been a
Badweiser
It’s fucking Polish.
Edit: I looked up the can design and it’s sold in different regions with the same design with the top text being replaced with whatever regional language is expected.
Can you pass a translation for me?
The small text on the upper part of the can isn’t polish, it’s gibberish. They fixed up every other text, but that part they didn’t touch up.
https://lemmy.world/comment/25250353
Does that look like Polish to you?
French is gibberish now? This was taken in Canada, you can tell by the bilingual packaging.
Which part of this is French?
No part of it is language at all. Its like latin letters got mixed with Devanagari.
100% AI slop
I agree, but this is what I was responding to: https://lemmy.ca/comment/24773109
It looks Slavic to me.
Damn, good eye
As someone who took French for 6yrs, I don’t think R2]R is French… nor is a bunch of the text that appears like multiple characters written over each other.
Im sorry, what? Nothing about this id bilingual.
The label on the jack links has a bit of blurry French. And the Qualite on the right side of the can on the box
And the labels in general
Like other commenter said, its more a general vibe.
Its the blocky graphic on either side with smaller text labeled modern squared off graphics in the middle. Its the font. Its the spacing. Its got the same general flow of the dozens of AI generated websites I’ve seen.
Its too cleanly unclean.
The “emphasis whiskers” around “it’s” in the top, middle are a dead giveaway. Plus I’ve seen multiple AI generated posters with this exact color/font scheme. You’re gonna keep seeing it over and over now that you know what to look for, unfortunately.
I still don’t understand the “whiskers”. What dataset are they using to train? I’ve literally not seen them until the prevalence of genAI.
The style of the text is a big giveaway to me. Generated text has gotten a lot better (ie usually legible), but it’s pretty much always that same block letters that aren’t quite perfect enough to be a typeface, but also not designed well enough to be made by hand.
The general format of this one is also fits closely to a lot of other generated posters I’ve seen (some examples: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/2d35f3bf-bc05-4971-8c8d-9e69fe857bde.png). It’s hard to describe, but hopefully you can see what we’re talking about.
I can pick that same “general vibe” very well with video but I think I’m yet to acquire that instant read on still images. Only one of three, the one on the right, seemed at all obvious to me.
I also think it’s AI. It’s not something in particular I can point out that makes me think that, it’s more an impression. An impression that comes from having seen a ton of slop.
You’ve seen quite a few pixels in your time, you say?
Sir, it’s an older meme but it checks out.
The meaningless feature section in the middle of the poster.
Seems fake. It’s also not legal AFAIK to sell non alcoholic beer to minors since it’s still got some alcohol in it. Then again I guess vanilla extract and mouth wash does too.
There’s a difference between non-alcoholic (or alcohol-free) and 0.0% alcohol (like it appears in the poster). The former allows for up to 0.5% ABV, while the latter means absolutely no alcohol whatsoever.
Still I don’t think it’s a good idea to get children used to the idea of drinking alcoholic beverages.
To be fair, teenagers should also not think about alcoholic beverages.
Only >0,5% ABV is classified as an “alcoholic beverage” federally.
So apple juice, bananas, …?
