Why non-alcoholic beer costs as much as alcoholic beer
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A 3AW Drive listener contacted Tom Elliott questioning how brewers can justify charging the same price for non-alcoholic beer as they do for alcoholic brews, which are subject to alcohol taxes.
Founder and publisher of Brews News, Matt Kirkegaard, says the process to make many non-alcoholic beers is more complex than the process for their alcoholic counterparts.
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