Lervig No Worries Review: Norway's Alcohol-Free IPA Range
Published May 2026, updated October 2026 · 6-minute read · by Rich, founder of Unhopped
Lervig is a craft brewery in Stavanger, Norway, founded in 2003. When American homebrewer Mike Murphy joined as head brewer in 2010, the brewery pivoted hard towards modern American craft styles. The No Worries series was their answer to the alcohol-free question: how do you make a beer that drinks like Lervig's full-strength IPA without the booze?
Who are Lervig?
Lervig (the company is Lervig AS; it used to be Lervig Aktiebryggeri) is a craft brewery in Stavanger, Norway, founded in 2003. Lervig calls itself independently owned and operated; the US investment firm Orkila Capital bought half of it in 2018 and still lists it as an investment. The brewery's transformation from a regional pilsner producer to a globally-respected modern craft brewer happened in 2010, when American homebrewer Mike Murphy — originally from Philadelphia — joined as head brewer.
Murphy brought a willingness to experiment that's defined Lervig ever since. The flagship Lucky Jack pale ale (4.7%), the Cucumbeer (pilsner with cucumber), the 3-Bean Stout (tonka, coffee, vanilla beans), the Christmas Shake (IPA with mango, passionfruit, vanilla) — Lervig's catalogue is distinctively imaginative.
The No Worries alcohol-free series follows the same experimental impulse. Rather than pick one technique and stick to it, Lervig produce multiple No Worries variants — fruit-forward, classic, dark, festive — covering more stylistic ground than most AF brewers attempt.
How No Worries is brewed
Lervig doesn't describe how No Worries is made on its own pages. Wise Bartender's description says it's fermented with a brewer's yeast that can't ferment maltose, the main sugar in wort, so the yeast makes only a little alcohol. We used to say Lervig calls it a ‘lazy’ yeast; we can't find Lervig saying so.
Lervig says the beers are 0.5%, and it doesn't publish nutrition figures, so we don't quote calories or sugar. We used to give 22 kcal per 100ml; we can't find where that came from.
Other brewers use their own yeasts for this, such as Mikkeller's Mikkellensis. Our guide to how alcohol-free beer is made explains the main methods.
The No Worries range: variant by variant
No Worries Mango Pale Ale (0.5%)
A fruit-forward beer that Lervig calls a mango IPA and the shops a pale ale — mango, citrus, tropical fruit. The fruit character is pronounced (a Lervig signature), making this one of the more aromatic AF pale ales available.
No Worries IPA (0.5%)
The original No Worries: Lervig calls it “a lightly hopped and pleasantly refreshing pale ale”, and the shops sell it as an IPA, with citrus, tropical and pine character.
No Worries Grapefruit IPA (0.5%)
No Worries with grapefruit, which Lervig calls a pale ale. Bitter-citrus character, refreshing, summery.
No Worries Pilsner (0.5%)
A clean, crisp pilsner, brewed with barley, hops and no wheat, Lervig says. Drinkable lager-style option in the range; we used to list it as a wheat beer.
The new ones. No Worries Summer, new in 2026, is a light beer “bursting with sweet, exotic fruit flavours”, Lervig says, and FYR OPP!, an IPA with yuzu juice, is now among Lervig’s past beers, though single cans were still on sale. The Christmas one. Lervig’s seasonal No Worries Driving Home for Christmas is in our guide to alcohol-free Christmas beer, with where to find it this year.
Where No Worries wins and where it doesn't
How No Worries compares to other alcohol-free pale ale ranges
In the European AF craft scene, Lervig No Worries sits alongside Mikkeller's Drink'in The Sun and Weird Weather range as the leading Scandinavian AF imports to the UK. Different brewing philosophies, both credible. For category comparisons, see our alcohol-free pale ale hub.
Beers to explore
Lervig's No Worries range — the six on sale in the UK:
