Below Brew Co Check This Stout
By Below Brew Co · UK
Below Brew Co’s pastry stout, which it calls a “liquid chocolate bar”: “honeycomb and chocolate come together” in a beer it says is “super decadent and incredibly moreish”. It took over from Below’s earlier Who Let The Bees Stout.
At 0.5% ABV, this isn’t alcohol-free under UK guidance, which keeps the term for 0.05% or less. We list it with alcohol-free beers, as UK shops do. How UK labels work
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What is Check This Stout?
Check This Stout is the dark beer in Below Brew Co’s current range. Below says “honeycomb and chocolate come together in this liquid chocolate bar; it’s super decadent and incredibly moreish.” Under the Lowtide name, Below described it as a phoenix of its earlier Who Let The Bees Stout.
Wise Bartender lists the ingredients as water, hops, yeast, natural flavourings, oats, barley and wheat, so it isn’t gluten-free, and no dairy is listed. Below’s product page gives the same nutrition figures as its Cosmic Turtle NEIPA, down to the last decimal, which looks like a mistake, so we don’t quote them.
You can buy it from Below’s own shop and Wise Bartender; Dry Drinker lists it but was sold out when we checked. For other dark beers, see our alcohol-free stouts.
Flavour Profile
A guide based on the style and Below’s description (honeycomb and chocolate, a “liquid chocolate bar”), to help you compare at a glance — not a definitive tasting.
Key facts
| Official name | Check This Stout (Below calls it a pastry stout) |
|---|---|
| Brewery | Below Brew Co, UK |
| Style | Pastry stout (chocolate and honeycomb) |
| ABV | 0.5% ABV, according to Below Brew Co |
| Pack | 440ml can |
| Calories | Not reliably published |
| Ingredients | Water, hops, yeast, natural flavourings, oats, barley and wheat (Wise Bartender’s listing) |
| Allergens | Barley, wheat and oats (gluten) |
| Vegan | Below Brew Co (then Lowtide) said every beer it makes is suitable for vegans, and the shops that sell it list it as vegan |
| Gluten | Contains gluten (barley, wheat and oats) |
| How it’s made | Not stated by Below Brew Co |
| Brewed | Under contract; Below Brew Co doesn’t name the brewery (Dry Drinker says it’s brewed in the UK) |
| UK availability | In stock online |
Sources: Below Brew Co’s website and blog, its old Lowtide site, Companies House, Dry Drinker, Wise Bartender and other retailers’ listings, checked October 2026. The label on the can or bottle is always the final word.
How Check This Stout sits in the Below Brew Co range
| Beer | Style | ABV | Per 100ml | Unhopped score | UK status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosmic Turtle | Hazy IPA | 0.5% | 10 kcal | Not yet rated | In stock online |
| Forgot To Take My Pils | Lager | 0.5% | 22 kcal | 7.8 | In stock online |
| Check This Stout (this beer) | Stout | 0.5% | Unconfirmed | Not yet rated | In stock online |
| Heaven & Helles | Gluten-free helles lager | 0.5% | 15 kcal | Not yet rated | In stock at Below, Wise Bartender and The Alcohol Free Co |
| All Hopped Up IPA | IPA | 0.5% | 18 kcal | Not yet rated | No longer on Below’s shop; sold out at Dry Drinker |
| Brune DMC | Brown Ale | 0.5% | 14 kcal | 7.9 | No longer on Below’s shop; sold out at Dry Drinker |
| Ohana | Pale Ale | 0.5% | Unconfirmed | Not yet rated | No longer on Below’s shop; sold out at Dry Drinker |
| West Coast Hop Lock | Pale Ale | 0.5% | Unconfirmed | Not yet rated | No longer on Below’s shop; sold out at Dry Drinker |
The Below Brew Co beers in our directory, checked October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10. ‘Unconfirmed’ means the only calorie figures we found look unreliable. Below also sells Wild Juice Chase, a pale ale, and Unruly AF, a pale ale, which aren’t in our directory yet.
About Below Brew Co
Below Brew Co is a Bath-based alcohol-free beer company started by the cousins Rob Buchinger-Jones and Dave Brown, who began in 2019 with an online alcohol-free beer shop, Crafty AF. It brewed its first beer at the end of 2020 under the name Lowtide Brewing Co and became Below Brew Co in March 2024. It doesn’t own a brewery: it works with contract brewers.
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