Below Brew Co Alcohol-Free Beers

Below Brew Co is a Bath-based alcohol-free beer company, started by two cousins who ran an online alcohol-free beer shop before brewing their own. It was called Lowtide Brewing Co until March 2024. Eight of its beers are in our directory; four are still on sale in its shop.

Who are Below Brew Co?

Rob Buchinger-Jones and his cousin Dave Brown began in the summer of 2019 with an online alcohol-free beer shop called Crafty AF. Their quest to find the perfect alcohol-free beer “often left us wanting more”, they wrote, and “we felt the world was being shortchanged”. So they made their own: “We brewed one run of 1,000 cans at the end of 2020, and sold out instantly.” The company is still called Crafty AF Ltd, and it’s based in Bath.

The beers launched as Lowtide Brewing Co. In March 2024 the company changed the name to Below Brew Co, saying it wanted to be “free to grow without worry” and needed “to button up some legal bits”; Rob has since said a similarly named American brewery, and plans to sell abroad, were behind it. Some shops, including Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, still use the Lowtide name in their brand tags or web addresses.

Below doesn’t own a brewery. “We contract brewers so we have no physical premises,” Rob said on a 2024 podcast, which lets the company “concentrate on developing the beers”. It doesn’t name the brewers, and it doesn’t say how it keeps its beers to 0.5%; it describes them as “brewed like a full strength beer”.

Is Below Brew Co independent?

As far as the public record shows, yes. Companies House lists the two founders as the company’s people with significant control, each holding more than 25% but no more than 50%. The company has allotted new shares since 2021, but no one else holds more than 25%. A third director joined in 2024. We found no stake by a larger brewer, so it keeps our Independent badge.

The range

Below says it has “established a core range”. Its shop sells six beers, and four of them are in our directory: Cosmic Turtle, a NEIPA with Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo and El Dorado; Forgot To Take My Pils, a hoppy pilsner we score 7.8; and Check This Stout, a chocolate and honeycomb pastry stout; and Heaven & Helles, a helles Below sells as gluten-free, at 15 kcal per 100ml. The others are Wild Juice Chase and Unruly AF, both pale ales.

Four older beers in our directory are no longer on Below’s shop: All Hopped Up IPA, its IPA for 2025; Brune DMC, a Belgian-style brune we score 7.9 and used to list, wrongly, as a stout; and two Lowtide-era pale ales we used to call IPAs, Ohana, brewed with Exale, and West Coast Hop Lock. Dry Drinker still lists all four, but they were sold out when we checked.

The Below Brew Co beers in our directory

All 0.5% ABV. Nutrition from Below Brew Co’s website and blog, and for All Hopped Up an Australian retailer’s listing; ‘Unconfirmed’ means the only figures we found look unreliable. Checked October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Below Brew Co

Below’s own shop sells its current beers from £3.59 a can, or six for £18.99, with packs up to 48. On 26 October 2026 Dry Drinker had Cosmic Turtle and Forgot To Take My Pils in stock, and Wise Bartender had those two and Check This Stout at £4 a can. On 29 October 2026 Wise Bartender had Heaven & Helles at £4 too, and The Alcohol Free Co had it at £4.35 a can or £25.71 for six; Dry Drinker doesn’t list it. Those links are affiliate links.

For more alcohol-free beer from small UK breweries, see our best craft alcohol-free breweries.

Facts checked against Below Brew Co’s website and blog, its old Lowtide site, Companies House, the Sober Boozers Club podcast, Bread, Cakes and Ale, Untappd, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, October 2026.