Rationale Brewing Non-Alcoholic Japanese Dry Lager

It's crisp and dry with subtle cherry blossom notes, plus ripe pear and yellow apple aromas. There's a gentle vanilla sweetness from oak, a hint of butterscotch, and light citrus, all finishing long and lingering.

Simply crack open a cold one — it's a light, refreshing lager that's best served chilled straight from the can.

It's brewed with rice and pilsner malts for that crisp, dry Japanese-style character, and comes in a 12 fl oz format.

RationAle Brewing is a non-alcoholic craft beer company co-founded in 2021 by Jamie Fay and Wendy Pickett, with the company based in San Diego, California. Its beers are made at partner breweries rather than a taproom of its own — early batches were brewed in Sonoma County, California, and current retail listings for the cans show Wisconsin as the region of origin, which matches the Wisconsin sourcing noted on our site.

Yes! Thanks to innovative brewing methods, many non-alcoholic beers offer the same depth of flavor, aroma, and body as their alcoholic counterparts. Whether you’re into hoppy IPAs, crisp lagers, or rich stouts, there’s a great-tasting NA beer to match your style.

Most non-alcoholic beers contain less than 0.5% ABV, which is legally considered non-alcoholic in the U.S. For those seeking 0.0% ABV, we offer options clearly labeled as such in the product description.

Non-alcoholic beer is brewed just like traditional beer using water, malt, hops, and yeast—but the alcohol is removed or reduced to less than 0.5% ABV (Alcohol by Volume). This is typically done through techniques like gentle heating, vacuum distillation, or special yeast strains that produce minimal alcohol.

For a drink to be legally non-alcoholic, it has to be 0.5% alcohol by volume or less. While this doesn't make it totally alcohol-free, it does mean it is impossible to experience any intoxication or other psychoactive effects from alcohol. For context, a slice of sourdough bread or a ripe banana has more alcohol by volume than any of our drinks!

We carry a few hundred different products on our website with all different ingredients. We suggest you consult with your doctor regarding specific ingredients. Everything we carry is non-alcoholic-- less than 0.5% ABV-- and very popular with our customers who are pregnant (and those who aren't, too)!

Some of our products contain adaptogens, nootropics, and other herbs that are not recommended for people who are pregnant, but we're not doctors and do not give medical advice. Every body and pregnancy is different, so we suggest talking to a healthcare professional if you're unsure.

Not all of our non-alcoholic beverages are 100% alcohol-free. Some contain trace amounts of alcohol at less than 0.5% alcohol by volume.  This is consistent with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s labeling policy, which permits the use of the term, “non-alcoholic” to describe a product that contains less than 0.5% alcohol by volume.

If you are looking for products that are 0.0% alcohol by volume, look for the "Alcohol-Free" badge on the product page.

Dealcoholized wine is wine that has gone through the entire wine making process-- pressing, fermentation, and aging-- before the alcohol is removed.

Most wines are dealcoholized using a technique called "vacuum distillation", where the wine is heated under a vacuum at very low temperatures. This allows for the alcohol to evaporate at a much lower temperature than boiling it off on your stove, like when you cook with alcohol or spirits. The result is that the flavor molecules that make up the flavor notes stay intact, giving our dealcoholized wines their characteristic complexity.

Sometimes, producers may add grape juice, grape must (a crush of whole grapes), sugar, or flavoring agents back to the dealcoholized wine in order to bulk up the body or balance the flavor.

Non-alcoholic spirits are specifically developed for mixing in non-alcoholic cocktails. These spirits taste great when mixed with soda water, tonic water, sodas, juices, and even other non-alcoholic spirits, but they might taste a little weird on their own. You're welcome to try them neat (we can't stop you!), but we don't recommend assessing whether or not you like a non-alcoholic spirit without mixing it, first.