# Guinness 0.0

13 Hacker News commenters recommended Guinness 0.0 and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People say it tastes very close to regular Guinness, without the flat, sock-like flavour common in non-alcoholic beer.

## Why people recommend it

- Tastes close to regular Guinness (7 comments): "the 0% version is surprisingly close to "real" Guinness and has none of those sock-y flavours that most non-alcoholic beer has" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889779)) "0% Guinness is the only beer I would say that matches the taste of alcohol based beer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893090)) "A Guinness Zero on draft is pretty much the same taste as the regular stuff." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889848))
- Good on draft and in pubs (2 comments): "A Guinness Zero on draft is pretty much the same taste as the regular stuff." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889848)) "Guiness Zero is my go to for a sipping beer when I'm actually in a pub." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890373))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Guinness 0.0", https://hackerapproved.com/p/guinness-0/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).