Bitburger Alcohol-Free Beers
One Bitburger beer in our directory: Bitburger Drive, the alcohol-free pils Bitburger now also sells as Bitburger 0.0% Premium Pils. We haven’t scored it yet.
Bitburger is a family-owned brewery in Bitburg, in Germany’s Eifel region, founded in 1817 and now one of Germany’s biggest beer brands. It sells one alcohol-free beer in the UK: its pils, called Bitburger Drive or Bitburger 0.0%.
- Founded: 1817, in Bitburg, by Johann Peter Wallenborn
- Owner: A family business, in its seventh generation
- First pilsner: 1883
- Alcohol-free beer in the UK: Bitburger Drive, also sold as Bitburger 0.0% Premium Pils: 0.0% ABV, 22 kcal per 100ml
- UK importer: Adnams
- In the UK: Dry Drinker, Wise Bartender, Ocado and Adnams
Who are Bitburger?
Johann Peter Wallenborn opened a small brewery in Bitburg in 1817. His grandson, Theobald Simon, brewed its first pilsner in 1883, and the business is still family-owned, now in its seventh generation. In 2024 Bitburger was Germany’s second-biggest beer brand, behind Krombacher, Inside Beer reported.
Drive and Bitburger 0.0%: one beer, two names
Bitburger launched Bitburger Drive, an alcohol-free pils, in 1992. In 2007 it renamed it Alkoholfrei 0,0% in Germany, and its English-language websites now call it Bitburger Premium Pils 0.0% or Bitburger 0.0% Alcohol-free. In the UK you’ll find the same beer under both names: Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender call it Drive, and Ocado calls it Premium Pils 0.0%. We used to list them as two different beers; they aren’t.
Bitburger says it’s brewed following the German beer purity law, from water, malted barley, hops and hop extract, and gives it 0.0% ABV. The UK label shows 22 kcal per 100ml; Bitburger’s international site and the German label show 33 kcal and 4.4g of sugar, so the recipe may differ by market. Adnams, which imports it, says it’s brewed like the full-strength pils, with the alcohol removed after maturation.
In Germany Bitburger also makes alcohol-free radlers, a Herb and four fruit beers: grapefruit, peach, pineapple and passion fruit. We didn’t find any of them on sale in the UK.
The Bitburger beer in our directory
Nutrition from Bitburger’s English-language website, matching the UK label, checked October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
Where to buy Bitburger alcohol-free
On 26 October 2026 Dry Drinker had cases of 6, 12 and 24 bottles in stock, from £12.08 for six, and Wise Bartender had single bottles at £1.60; those two links are affiliate links. Ocado had six bottles on offer at £5 (usually £5.90), and Adnams, the UK importer, sells cases of 24 bottles or 500ml cans. We didn’t find it at Sainsbury’s or Morrisons. For other German beers, see our German alcohol-free beer guide.
Facts checked against Bitburger’s German, English-language and international websites, Bitburger Braugruppe’s press releases, Inside Beer, LebensmittelPraxis, Brewbound, Ocado, Adnams, Barnivore, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, October 2026.
Bitburger Beers in Our Directory
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