Cobra Alcohol-Free Beers
One Cobra beer in our directory: Cobra Zero, a 0.0% lager. We haven’t scored it yet.
Cobra is the lager Karan Bilimoria, now Lord Bilimoria, founded in London in 1989 to go with Indian food. Molson Coors took control in 2009 and full ownership in 2024. Its alcohol-free beer is Cobra Zero, a 0.0% lager in 330ml cans, brewed for the UK under licence in Serbia.
- Founded: 1989, in London, by Karan Bilimoria, now Lord Bilimoria
- Owner: Molson Coors: control since 2009, full ownership since 2024
- Alcohol-free: Cobra Zero, 0.0%, in 330ml cans since October 2023
- Brewed: Under licence at Apatinska pivara, Molson Coors’s brewery in Serbia, the UK label says
- Dietary: Vegan (Vegetarian Society approved); not gluten-free
- Where to buy: Dry Drinker, Sharp’s Brewery’s online shop and Ocado
Who are Cobra?
“Lord Karan Bilimoria founded Cobra Beer in 1989 having realised that Britain deserved a better, smoother, less gassy lager,” Cobra says. He started the business from a flat in Fulham, delivering crates to Indian restaurants himself. Cobra was first brewed in Bangalore, and it’s been aimed at Indian food from the start.
Molson Coors took control in 2009, with 50.1% of a new joint venture, when the original company went into administration. It took full ownership in 2024, and Lord Bilimoria, who had chaired the business, left the board that October; Molson Coors now calls him the founder of the Cobra brand. Cobra isn’t independent.
Cobra Zero
Cobra Zero is 0.0%, and Cobra says it’s brewed for “a delicate, malty taste”, and that the Cobra range has lower carbonation to go with food. Cobra relaunched it in 2019, brewed by Bavaria in the Netherlands, and Molson Coors reformulated it and moved it from bottles to 330ml cans in October 2023. The UK cans are now brewed under licence at Apatin, Molson Coors’s brewery in Serbia, the label says.
It has 17 kcal per 100ml, or about 56 kcal a can, and it’s vegan, approved by the Vegetarian Society, but it isn’t gluten-free. We haven’t scored it yet. Cobra Gluten Free is a separate beer, and it contains alcohol.
The Cobra beer in our directory
Figures from the label as Ocado lists it, checked October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
Where to buy Cobra Zero
Dry Drinker had cases of 6, 12 and 24 cans on 28 October 2026, at £12.99 for six; that link is an affiliate link. Sharp’s Brewery’s online shop, also owned by Molson Coors, had 24 cans for £24, down from £30, and Ocado lists four cans at £4. We didn’t find it at Sainsbury’s, Morrisons or Wise Bartender, and we couldn’t check Tesco’s or Asda’s websites. For more beers to drink with spicy food, see our guide to alcohol-free beer with curry.
Facts checked against Cobra’s website, Companies House, the Morning Advertiser, Asian Trader, City AM, Food & Drink Technology, the Ocado listing of the label, Dry Drinker and Sharp’s Brewery, October 2026.
Cobra Beers in Our Directory
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