Below Brew Co

Registered in Torquay, the brewery was built from the outset to address what the founders saw as a quality gap in the AF beer market. Below Brew Co brews exclusively alcohol-free, with no full-strength range alongside it. Rather than removing alcohol after fermentation, a process known as dealcoholisation, the brand uses a low-intervention brewing approach built around specific yeast strains that naturally produce very low levels of alcohol during brewing, keeping the range below 0.5% ABV. The founders describe this as avoiding the machinery typically associated with dealcoholisation, preserving the character of the beer rather than reconstructing it.

The range spans an unusually broad set of styles for a micro-producer of its scale and age: pilsners, helles lagers, NEIPAs (New England-style IPAs that are hazy and heavily hop-forward), pastry stouts, sours, and rotating experimental formats. The hop-forward and dark beer styles extend the range into territory that few AF brewers of comparable size attempt, making Below Brew Co a meaningful option for sober-curious drinkers who want genuine craft complexity across a broad style spectrum.

Distribution runs through the brand's own direct channel, specialist alcohol-free retailers, and select mainstream supermarket listings, giving Below Brew Co a broader retail footprint than many comparably sized independents. Pricing sits in the premium bracket, reflecting the small-batch craft positioning.

Below Brew Co operates with no parent company involvement and brews nothing but alcohol-free beer. At a time when many established breweries add a single token AF product, its approach of building an entire brewery around the AF category is a deliberate statement about where the founders believe the quality ceiling sits.