Beak Brewery Alcohol-Free Beers

Beak is an independent brewery in Lewes, East Sussex, started by the food writer Daniel Tapper. It’s best known for hop-forward IPAs, and its alcohol-free beer is Nolia, a 0.5% hazy IPA sold under its own name.

Who are Beak?

Daniel Tapper started in journalism on The Guardian’s multimedia desk, then worked as a food writer for about a decade, including as a staff writer for Waitrose Kitchen. Beak began, as its website puts it, as “a nomadic project”: around 2016 he started brewing Beak recipes at other people’s breweries, including North Brewing Co, Partizan, Beavertown, Burning Sky and Northern Monk.

In 2020 Beak opened its own brewery and taproom on an industrial estate in Lewes, the home of Harvey’s brewery. Beer52 put its output at about 5,000 hectolitres a year in 2026. It’s best known for hop-forward IPAs, but it also brews everything from pilsners to imperial stouts; Good Beer Hunting called Parade IPA “the closest thing the brewery has to a flagship”. The bottle shop Hop Burns & Black says Beak is “now firmly in the conversation as one of the UK’s finest”.

Is Beak independent?

Yes, as far as the public record shows. Companies House lists Daniel Tapper as the company’s only director and its only person with significant control, with 75% or more of the shares. Beak has issued a few more shares since 2023, but Tapper remains its only person with significant control, and we found no stake by a larger brewer. Beak describes itself as “an independent brewery and taproom”.

Nolia, Beak’s alcohol-free IPA

Nolia went on sale in June 2025. Beak sells it under its own name, and Untappd lists Nolia as a subsidiary of Beak. Beak calls it a “premium alcohol free IPA”, “saturated in super fresh hops” from farms in the Yakima Valley and Nelson, New Zealand, with “flavours of apricot, mango and lime mojitos”.

It’s 0.5%, in 440ml cans. Beak lists malted barley, oats, wheat and gluten as allergens, and doesn’t publish nutrition figures, the hop varieties or how it keeps the strength down. A limited Nolia NZ Edition, with New Zealand hops, was sold out everywhere we checked.

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From Beak’s shop, checked October 2026. Beak doesn’t publish nutrition figures.

Visiting the taproom

The taproom is at the brewery, about ten minutes’ walk from Cliffe High Street in Lewes. Beak’s taproom page says it’s open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, with “an ever-changing roster of street food”, and that children and dogs are welcome. Two of Beak’s pages give slightly different hours, so check its site before you go. Beak also runs an annual festival, These Hills; the 2026 edition was at Glynde Place in August.

Where to buy Nolia

Beak’s own shop had single 440ml cans of Nolia at £4 on 26 October 2026, with free UK delivery on orders over £50. Independent bottle shops had it from about £3.95 a can. Dry Drinker lists only the NZ Edition, which was sold out, and Wise Bartender doesn’t sell Nolia. We didn’t find it in any supermarket.

For more alcohol-free beer from UK craft breweries, see our best craft alcohol-free breweries and our best alcohol-free hazy IPAs.

Facts checked against Beak’s website and shop, Companies House, Good Beer Hunting, Beer52, the Brewers Journal, Untappd, Hop Burns & Black and UK bottle shops, October 2026.