Is is completely ok to drink alcohol free beer when pregnant?

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Or does it have things in it that could be harmful for the baby? Does anyone know?

Hope not as I've had some!

I just searched for details and found the link below to check the ingredients. There's nothing in there that would be an issue and the alcohol content is so low, you'd have to drink something like 100 bottles to go over the safe pregnancy limit.

www.tesco.com/superstore/xpi/3/xpi56082663.htm

I always assuned so - never had that much as I went off it slightly.

i drank lots if it when i was pregnant with ds3 and had no probs! beer and chocolate was all i craved all day every day!!!!

phew!

yes!

I should buy shares in Becks Blue as I've drunk so much of it!

Wow. There's paranoid and there's paranoid!

Becks Blue is great. It's only something like 0.01%, so virtually non-existant! It's just fizzy juice, really!

If I wanted a beer that badly I would savour and enjoy a bottle of the proper stuff

Ditto wine

As long as you're sensible and not hammering it every night I really don't think it's a problem?

But becks blue is no different from drinking, say, lemonade, so there's no need to drink the real stuff uf you've chosen to stay away from alcohol.

I have drunk so much of becks blue that it now makes me sick. (And was told off for it by a mate of DH who said that it still has some alcohol in it... while he was getting smashed on guiness).

It's 0.01%, which equates to 0.0033 units. You'd need to drink 300 to have ONE unit of alcohol!!!!!!!!!! I bet you only drank 3 or 4 a night at the VERY most!

Tesco Low Alcohol cider is lovely for the non beer drinkers.

You can drink 3 pints of the stuff and it only adds up to 0.9 units in total.

I'd probably get waterlogged and spend too much drinking time on the toilet before I managed to get to 3 pints but still, it's a nice idea.

Yes, of course!

I just wish they did low-alcohol real ale... Beer is what I miss when pregnant, not wine. But I allow myself the odd 1/4 pint - it's really not a problem if it's once or twice a month.

Waitrose low-alcohol cider is nice, too. I think it's about .5% or something.

Just discovered a really nice alcohol free beer: Bavaria Holland. Found it on morrisons.

Bavaria 0% Witbier is nice too. There are some beers that are nearly 0.5% which is still tiny unless you're drinking ten of them, but if you read the small print carefully it's easy to tell the difference.

Drinking Bavaria Holland as I type!

I need to give this a try. I've not been very impressed with the alcohol free wine I've tasted.

I also enjoy a bavaria holland every now and again! I did find alcohol free Scheider Weisse in a bar once and it was lovely... And £4.50 a bottle!! I second reshape, done nothing but crave pints of porter whilst pregnant, alcohol free real ale would certainly get my custom.

Bavaria is great. I find that Becks Blue has a yucky aftertaste and I don't enjoy it unless I make a shandy with it. Whereas Bavaria has no aftertaste and you can almost (almost!) convince yourself it is the real thing.

Sainsbury's do a very nice alcohol free sparkling wine. It's the only thing I've found that tastes even slightly like sparkling wine!
www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/sainsburys-alcohol-free-sparkling-wine-75cl

Another vote for Bavaria and also try erdinger. Couldn't actually face anything that tasted beery whilst pregnant mind you so this is based on when I was ttc x

If anything, it's good for you!
Erdinger Alciholfrei even has folic acid in it.

Becks Blue is vile stuff, but there are some lovely alcohol-free craft beers and ales out there. I like Veltins and Erdinger, and Brewdog do a dark ale which is good too, called Nanny State.

I also like Stowford Press alcohol free cider.

I always bought Bavaria. They're all good as shandy though. Just lovely in summer, and the sweetness of the lemonade seems to take away the funny aftertaste non alcoholic beers tend to have.