Beavertown Alcohol-Free Beers

Beavertown is the London craft brewery behind Neck Oil and Gamma Ray, owned by Heineken since 2022. Its alcohol-free beer is Lazer Crush, a 0.3% IPA that we score 8.5 out of 10.

Who are Beavertown?

Logan Plant, the son of Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, started Beavertown in 2011 in the kitchen of Duke’s Brew & Que in De Beauvoir, Hackney. The name comes from an old nickname for De Beauvoir Town. The brewery moved to Hackney Wick and then, in 2014, to Tottenham Hale.

In June 2018 Heineken bought a minority stake for £40m, later reported as 49%. Beavertown used the money to build Beaverworld, a 129,000 sq ft brewery on the site of the old Ediswan factory in Ponders End, Enfield, which opened in 2020. In September 2022 Heineken UK bought the remaining 51%, and Plant stepped down as chief executive, moving to an advisory role. Will Rice, previously Heineken UK’s on-trade sales director, became managing director in June 2026, and Heineken says Beavertown still operates as a separate company, with its own identity.

Beavertown’s best-known beers are Neck Oil, a 4.3% session IPA, and Gamma Ray, a 5.4% American pale ale. The International Beer Challenge named it UK Brewer of the Year in 2015 and again in 2020.

Is Beavertown independent?

No. Heineken UK has owned all of it since 2022, so we don’t give it our Independent badge.

Lazer Crush

Lazer Crush launched in October 2020 as Beavertown’s first alcohol-free beer. It’s 0.3%, and Beavertown puts that down to the yeast: it says it uses “a unique yeast strain (it’s called Pichia)” that makes the flavours of a normal fermentation “just without the alcohol”. The recipe is Pilsner malt with Azacca, Amarillo and Citra hops.

The four-packs now in supermarkets give 27 kcal per 100ml, about 89 kcal a can; Beavertown’s site still says 83 calories a can, which matches an older label. The cans say it’s brewed in the EU for Beavertown. We score it 8.5 out of 10: our Lazer Crush review has the tasting notes.

Lazer Crush is the only alcohol-free beer Beavertown sells today. A 0.5% lager, Astro-Nought, launched in 2022 but is no longer on sale, and Satellite, at 2.8%, is low-alcohol rather than alcohol-free.

Beavertown’s alcohol-free beer in our directory

From the supermarket label and Beavertown’s site, checked October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Lazer Crush

Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Ocado list four-packs of 330ml cans; Waitrose lists it but showed it as temporarily unavailable when we checked on 26 October 2026. That day Tesco’s Clubcard price (£5 a four-pack, until 2 November) and Morrisons’ 2 for £10 both came to £1.25 a can.

Beavertown’s own shop sells cases of 12, 24 and 48, from £1.55 a can in a case of 48, with free delivery over £60. Dry Drinker sells cases of 6, 12 and 24; that’s an affiliate link.

Facts checked against Beavertown’s website, Heineken UK, Companies House, the UK supermarkets’ labels and listings, the Drinks Business, the Morning Advertiser, the Brewers Journal and Beer Today, October 2026.