Hoegaarden Alcohol-Free Beers

Hoegaarden is AB InBev’s Belgian wheat beer, brewed in the village it’s named after. Its Radler Lemon 0.0 is on sale in the UK in 250ml bottles. Hoegaarden 0.0, the alcohol-free wheat beer, is still listed at Tesco, but it was out of stock when we checked on 31 October 2026.

Who makes Hoegaarden?

Hoegaarden belongs to AB InBev and the Belgian label of its Radler 0.0 names the brewer as InBev Belgium in Hoegaarden. Budweiser Brewing Group, AB InBev’s UK business, lists it among its brands. It isn’t independent. AB InBev says it’s pronounced “WHOgaarden”.

Hoegaarden’s history

The brand dates its story to monks in the village. “Almost 600 years ago”, it says, “a band of monks experimented by adding oddball botanicals from halfway around the world to their traditional wheat beer”; AB InBev says they found the recipe around 1445, and names the spices as orange peel and coriander from the colony of Curaçao.

Today’s beer is a revival. The last local wheat beer brewery, Tomsin, closed in 1957, according to Wikipedia, and Pierre Celis, a milkman, revived the recipe in a milk shed, AB InBev says. The two disagree on the year: AB InBev gives 1965; Wikipedia gives 1967, when it says Celis started a new brewery, de Kluis, in his hay loft. After a fire in 1985, Interbrew lent money to rebuild the brewery, Wikipedia says, and Celis later set up the Celis Brewery in Austin, Texas.

Hoegaarden nearly left its village. In November 2005 InBev announced it would close the brewery and move production to Jupille, but on 10 September 2007 it decided to keep production in Hoegaarden, Wikipedia says, citing Het Nieuwsblad; its article on the village says the beer “could not be brewed there with the right characteristics”. AB InBev says “9 out of 10 wheat beers sold in Belgium are from Hoegaarden”; that’s the brand owner’s own figure.

Hoegaarden’s alcohol-free beers

Hoegaarden 0.0, an alcohol-free version of the wheat beer, went on sale in Belgium at the end of April 2011, first in the Benelux, at €2.79 for four 33cl, the Belgian paper La Libre reported. It uses the same six base ingredients as the classic, wheat, barley malt, hops, coriander, orange peel and water, with a hint of citrus, La Libre said, and a spokesperson called it a niche market, but one with a loyal consumer base.

It’s brewed like the full-strength beer, then has its alcohol taken out: “The beer is double fermented and unfiltered; but then the alcohol is removed and fruit juice infused as the final step,” BeverageDaily reported in 2019. By then, BeverageDaily said, no and low alcohol versions made up half of Hoegaarden’s Belgian retail volumes. It was tried in the US as Hoegaarden Soft Brew, with the same recipe, in Rochester, New York, and Philadelphia for 16 weeks from August 2019, after a launch in India earlier that year. In 2023 AB InBev said it was investing €31m in its Belgian breweries at Hoegaarden, Leuven and Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, including a new system for removing alcohol, RetailDetail reported; it didn’t say which brewery makes which alcohol-free beer.

In the UK it was sold at Tesco in boxes of four cans, Alcohol Change UK’s review says; it gave the beer 5 out of 5 and listed 27 kcal per 100ml. Tesco still lists Hoegaarden Wit Blanche Wheat Beer 0.0, four 330ml for £4.00, but it was “currently out of stock” on 31 October 2026. On 29 October 2026 we didn’t find it at Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker or Wise Bartender; we didn’t check Asda or Ocado. We don’t know when it went on sale in the UK.

Radler Lemon 0.0 is the Hoegaarden in our directory: a 0.0% radler on Hoegaarden’s wheat beer base, in 250ml bottles at The Alcohol Free Co. We couldn’t find a UK label, so these details are from the Belgian one: barley malt, wheat, sugar, coriander, orange peel, lemon and lime juice (0.6% each), hops and the sweetener acesulfame K, with 23 kcal and 3.2g of sugars per 100ml. The Alcohol Free Co describes “Lemon, lime, orange peel, soft wheat, light coriander and gentle cereal notes”; we found no description from Hoegaarden, and nothing on how it’s made. On Untappd it averages 2.9 out of 5 from 7,282 ratings. The Brussels Times reported Hoegaarden Radler versions launching in Belgium in 2015, but didn’t say they were 0.0, so we don’t know when this one launched. We found no awards for it.

The Alcohol Free Co also had single bottles of a Hoegaarden Rosée 0.0 at £2.77 on 29 October 2026; it isn’t in our directory, and Hoegaarden’s own site shows no 0.0 version of the Rosée.

How Radler Lemon 0.0 compares

Alcohol-free radlers and lemon beers in our directory. Calories per 100ml as listed on each beer’s page (Hoegaarden’s are from the Belgian label); checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Hoegaarden beer in our directory

Checked October 2026. Calories are from the Belgian label. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Hoegaarden Radler Lemon 0.0

On 29 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had single bottles at £2.77 (an affiliate link), though not its cases. Dry Drinker had sold out, and we didn’t find it at Wise Bartender or the supermarkets.

Looking for something like full-strength Hoegaarden? Our Hoegaarden swap guide has alcohol-free wheat beers in the same spirit; see also our guides to alcohol-free wheat beer and alcohol-free radlers and fruit beers.

Facts checked against Hoegaarden’s own website, AB InBev, Budweiser Brewing Group, Wikipedia, La Libre, BeverageDaily, RetailDetail, the Brussels Times, Alcohol Change UK, Untappd, Albert Heijn, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, 31 October 2026.