A. Le Coq Alcohol-Free Beers

A. Le Coq is an Estonian brewery in Tartu, wholly owned by the Finnish brewer Olvi since 1997. It calls itself Estonia’s oldest continuously operating brewery and dates its founding to 1807. Three of its alcohol-free drinks are in our directory: two 0.0% lagers, A. Le Coq 0,0 and Alexander Bohemian alcohol free, which aren’t sold in the UK, and Fassbrause Peach, a 0.0% peach radler that Dry Drinker lists but had out of stock when we checked.

From London stout exporter to Tartu brewery

A. Le Coq’s own history says the company was founded in 1807 by a Prussian family descended from Huguenots, and that in the 1820s Albert Le Coq moved to London, where he began bottling and exporting a Russian Imperial stout under his own name. The beer historian Martyn Cornell has found no documentary evidence for the 1807 date and puts Le Coq’s move to London in the 1830s; the earliest dated record he cites is from 1841, when Le Coq’s wine partnership with Charles Seidler was dissolved.

The Russian trade took the company east. A. Le Coq says it decided in 1904 to move closer to its main market, moved its bottling from London to St Petersburg in 1906, and then chose the Tivoli brewery in Tartu for the clean groundwater beneath Tähtvere Hill. It dates that purchase to March 1912 (Martyn Cornell says the directors chose Tivoli in 1911), and says that in 1912 it was also named official supplier to the Russian emperor’s court.

Brewing on the Tartu site is older than A. Le Coq’s arrival: lager cellars were built there in 1879–80. In 1940 the brewery was nationalised; in January 1941 it was named Tartu Õlletehas (Tartu Brewery), and from 1973 Tartu Eksperimentaalõlletehas, the Tartu Experimental Brewery. After Estonian independence it was privatised; Olvi bought 15% in June 1996 and the remaining 85% in September 1997, and the A. Le Coq name was relaunched in May 1999.

Today A. Le Coq makes more than ten kinds of drink, from beer and cider to soft drinks, juices, energy drinks and water, and says it exports to more than 70 countries. Olvi says the brewery has used only green electricity since the start of 2020, and a biogas and wastewater treatment plant opened there in 2022.

A. Le Coq’s alcohol-free beers

The alcohol-free range is built around 0.0% lagers. A. Le Coq 0,0 is a hoppy lager in a 330ml can with 21 kcal per 100ml. The alcohol-free Premium is a separate 0.0% beer with 25 kcal per 100ml and no sugar; A. Le Coq says it makes it by removing the alcohol from fermented beer by vacuum evaporation. Alexander Bohemian alcohol free is the 0.0% version of Alexander Bohemian, brewed with pilsner malt and a little more bitter, at 22 IBU. There is also an alcohol-free porter, and a Fassbrause range of 0.0% fruit radlers made with alcohol-free beer, in lemon, cherry, mojito and peach flavours. Fassbrause is a German drink, and A. Le Coq says it is still popular in and around Berlin. Fassbrause Peach is 50% alcohol-free beer, with sugar, peach juice and flavourings, and at 36 kcal per 100ml it’s sweeter and higher in calories than the lagers.

A. Le Coq says its Beer Mail alcohol-free IPA was named Best Alcohol-Free Beer at Best Estonian Beverage 2022, a competition run by the Estonian Sommelier Association, and that Kaitsetahte Laager, a non-alcoholic lager-style beer, won a silver label in the non-alcoholic category at Best Estonian Drink 2025.

The beers in our directory

From A. Le Coq’s product pages, checked October 2026. Alexander is also exported in a 568ml pint can. We list Fassbrause Peach with our lagers. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Can you buy A. Le Coq alcohol-free beer in the UK?

Not at the moment. Dry Drinker lists one A. Le Coq drink, Fassbrause Peach, in cases of 6, 12 and 24 cans, but it was out of stock, marked “Back Soon”, when we checked in October 2026. We couldn’t find a UK retailer selling A. Le Coq 0,0 or Alexander Bohemian alcohol free, and Wise Bartender sells A. Le Coq’s ready-made alcohol-free cocktails, such as its Mai Tai, but not its beers. In Estonia both lagers are on sale in supermarkets such as Rimi.

For a hoppy 0.0% lager you can order in the UK, try Krombacher Pilsner 0.0, Warsteiner Premium Fresh or Staropramen 0.0, or see our ranking of the best 0.0% beers and the alcohol-free lager hub. If it’s the peach radler you’re after, our guide to alcohol-free fruit beers and radlers has fruity picks in stock.

Facts checked against A. Le Coq’s and Olvi’s own websites and annual report, Estonian retailer listings, Dry Drinker and Martyn Cornell’s history of the company, October 2026.