Desperados Alcohol-Free Beers
One Desperados beer in our directory: Desperados Lemon 0.0, at 0.0%. We haven’t scored it, and it was sold out in the UK when we checked.
Desperados is Heineken’s agave-flavoured beer brand, first brewed in France in the mid-1990s. Its alcohol-free beer sold in the UK, Desperados Lemon 0.0, is made in Poland by Grupa Żywiec under licence from Heineken, and the only UK shop we found selling it had it sold out.
- First brewed: 1995, by Brasserie Fischer in Schiltigheim, France, the trade press says; Desperados says 1996
- Owner: Heineken, which bought Fischer in 1996
- Full strength: Desperados Original, 5.9%, brewed in the UK by Heineken UK
- Alcohol-free: Desperados Lemon 0.0, 0.0%, in 400ml bottles; elsewhere it’s Desperados Virgin 0.0
- Made: In Poland, by Grupa Żywiec under licence
- Where to buy: Dry Drinker, sold out on 28 October 2026
Who are Desperados?
Desperados was launched in 1995 by Brasserie Fischer in Schiltigheim, near Strasbourg, the trade press says, and Heineken bought Fischer the following year; the brand itself says it was “born in 1996”. Heineken UK took back the UK rights in 2012. The full-strength Desperados Original, at 5.9%, is now brewed in the UK, the label says, and Desperados describes it as “infused with agave spirit”. We used to say Karlsbräu launched it, and that it was a French-brewed lager with lime; we found no source for either.
Desperados Lemon 0.0
Desperados Lemon 0.0 is a flavoured alcohol-free beer at 0.0%, made in Poland by Grupa Żywiec and sold in 400ml bottles; in other countries the same recipe is Desperados Virgin 0.0. Desperados describes it as “beer, citrus and agave”. The ingredients are water, barley malt, sugar, hop extract, natural flavouring, citric acid and carbon dioxide: no spirit, lemonade or juice, so it isn’t a radler.
It has 29 kcal per 100ml, with 4.8g of sugar, Grupa Żywiec says; we found no UK label. It isn’t gluten-free, and we haven’t scored it. We used to list it as Dutch; it’s made in Poland.
The Desperados beer in our directory
Figures from Grupa Żywiec, which makes it, checked October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
Where to buy Desperados Lemon 0.0
Dry Drinker, the only UK shop we found selling it, had every case size sold out on 28 October 2026 (£16.78 for six), marked “Back Soon”; that’s an affiliate link. Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Wise Bartender don’t sell it, and we couldn’t check Asda, Waitrose, Ocado or Co-op. For fruit-flavoured alcohol-free beers you can buy now, see our guide to fruit beers, radlers and shandies.
Facts checked against Grupa Żywiec, Desperados’s website, the Tesco listing of the Original’s label, the Morning Advertiser, inside.beer and Dry Drinker, October 2026.
Desperados Beers in Our Directory
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