All the products in beer are non-alcoholic. In other words, there's no alcohol in them. The process of fermenting these ingredients is where the alcohol comes from. Unless it's fermented, it's not beer...it's just liquid malt extract with hops (wort).
The fermentation process does more than just add alcohol...or you could just dump some vodka in it and avoid the many weeks of waiting. The yeast eats the sugars in the wort and the byproducts of this is the alcohol, lots of CO2, and a number of less significant flavor changes that add up to the flavor of beer.
If you're looking at making non-alcoholic beer, you need to first brew and ferment your beer which will result in regular, alcoholic beer. You then need to boil away the alcohol...the problem with just putting it on the stove and boiling it for a few hours is that the heat destroys most of the flavors and leaves it tasting like swamp water...not what you're after. In order to boil the alcohol off without heat, it needs to be put in a vacuum (no, not a vacuum cleaner) in order to lower the boiling point of the alcohol to around room temperature. This requires specialized equipment and I'm not 100% sure this doesn't qualify as distillation per the law, so there might be legality issues (perhaps only if you're collecting the alcohol that's boiled off).
2006-10-20 04:48:02
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answered by Trid 6
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ALL Beer is made out of non-alcoholic products if that is what you are talking about. It's the fermentation of the ingredients: water, malted barley, hops, and yeast that makes the alcohol in it. But all the ingredients in beer are natural products.
2006-10-20 11:45:16
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answered by CarolinaGirl 4
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? you mean beer with no alcohol if i unserstand your question correctly. never heard of that. try google "make alcohol free beer"
2006-10-20 11:32:23
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answered by j. b 1
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what? from the lack of info in you question, it sounds as if the beer has already killed too many of you braincells.
2006-10-20 11:32:04
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answered by . 4
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iM SURE mARTHA-sTEWART CAN HELP YOU THERE GO TO HER WEBSITE
2006-10-20 11:32:23
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answered by Juleette 6
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