Left Handed Giant Alcohol-Free Beers
Two Left Handed Giant beers in our directory: Run Free, an alcohol-free IPA below 0.5%, and Nothing Ventured, which we can’t currently find on sale.
Left Handed Giant is a Bristol brewery that began at the back of Small Bar in 2014, it says, and it’s owned by its founders, its staff and about 1,500 community shareholders. Its alcohol-free beers are “all under 0.5% ABV”, it says, and the one we can find on sale is Run Free, an alcohol-free IPA.
- Based in: Bristol, with six premises across the city, two of them brewery sites, it says
- Began: 2014, at the back of Small Bar, its About page says; its homepage says 2015
- Owner: Its founders, employees and about 1,500 community shareholders, it says. Independent
- Size: Around 7,000 hectolitres of beer a year, it says
- B Corp: Certified by B Lab, it says
- Alcohol-free: Run Free, an IPA below 0.5%; all its alcohol-free beers are vegan-friendly, it says
- Where to buy: Its own shop and Beer Gonzo; the shops we link to don’t list it
Who are Left Handed Giant?
“Left Handed Giant began at the back of Small Bar, Bristol, in 2014,” its About page says. Rich Poole gave beer to Bruce Gray and Jack Granger at Small Bar, and that started a brewing journey on a 200-litre kit; the business then ran as a “cuckoo brewery operation”, and “A physical brewery followed in 2017”. Its homepage gives a different start: “Left Handed Giant has been making modern, progressive beers in Bristol since 2015.”
Its brewpub, overlooking Bristol’s floating harbour, opened in 2019 after the brewery raised more than £1m from the local community through Crowdcube, it says. Today it brews “around 7000 hL of beer annually” and has “six premises across the city”, including two brewery sites; the venues it lists are the LHG Brewpub, the LHG Taproom, Small Bar and Renato’s. Its company number is 08588014.
Who owns Left Handed Giant?
It calls itself a “Founder, Employee and Community owned business”, with 1,500 shareholders, more than 80% of them with Bristol (BS) postcodes. Its mission page says it will “stay small, stay independent, and keep our ownership with our founders, our community and our employees.” It also says it’s “externally audited and certified by the B Lab”, as a B Corp. We found no larger group involved, so we list it as independent.
What Left Handed Giant brews
It calls itself “Bristol’s award-winning craft brewery”, though we didn’t find which awards. Its full-strength beers include a 4.5% Brewpub Hazy Pale: “Our hazy pale ale is juicy and tropical, not only due to a dry hop of Cryo Citra and Mosaic”, its listing on the trade site EEBRIA says. Its alcohol-free page also sells a “Great Taste 2026 Mix Pack”; we couldn’t confirm the award behind the name.
Its Sicilian Lemon Radler isn’t alcohol-free. Beer Gonzo lists “Radler - Sicilian Lemon” at 2.5%, “A delicious and refreshing low alcohol Radler brewed with our homemade Sicilian Lemonade”, in 440ml cans, and it was out of stock there.
Left Handed Giant’s alcohol-free beers
Its alcohol-free page says its beers are “all under 0.5% ABV”, and “All vegan-friendly and brewed in Bristol using cutting-edge techniques to deliver bold flavour at a fraction of the percentage.” It doesn’t say what those techniques are. When we checked, the page listed two products: Run Free multipacks and the Great Taste 2026 Mix Pack.
Run Free is “Run Free (AF IPA)” on the brewer’s shop, with “ABV <0.5%”: “Bursting with citrus and pine, effortlessly refreshing and delightfully smooth.” Its product page labels it “VEGAN FRIENDLY”; it doesn’t claim it’s gluten-free. The brewer calls it an IPA, though the web address of its own product page says pale, and Beer Gonzo and the trade supplier Inn Express sell it as a pale ale. Beer Gonzo gives the strength as 0.5%, and Alcohol Change UK as less than 0.5%.
Alcohol Change UK’s reviewer gave it 4 out of 5, describing a refreshing alcohol-free IPA with pine notes, a malty, creamy mouthfeel and a pleasant citrus aftertaste, and said that it was the brewer’s only alcohol-free beer at the time. We found no calorie figure or ingredient list: Alcohol Change UK lists its calories as “TBC”. It comes in 440ml cans, and in 30-litre kegs for the trade. We didn’t find when it was launched.
The EEBRIA trade site also lists an LHG Brewpub Single Hop Citra Pale (Alcohol Free) at 0.5%, “soft and smooth, single hopped with Citra from Yakima Valley”.
Our directory also lists Nothing Ventured, but we can’t currently find it on sale or on Left Handed Giant’s website: when we checked on 1 November 2026, the brewer’s alcohol-free page didn’t include it, and The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender didn’t list it. So we can’t confirm its strength, style or how it tastes.
How Run Free compares
Alcohol-free IPAs from UK breweries in our directory. Calories per 100ml as in our calorie calculator; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
The Left Handed Giant beers in our directory
Checked 1 November 2026. Left Handed Giant says Run Free is below 0.5%. We can’t currently find Nothing Ventured on sale, so we can’t confirm its details. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
Where to buy Left Handed Giant
The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender don’t list Left Handed Giant’s beers. On 1 November 2026 Left Handed Giant’s own shop listed Run Free in multipacks of 4, 12 and 24 cans, from £14.80, though the beer’s own product page showed it as sold out, and Beer Gonzo had single 440ml cans at £4.00, in stock. For alcohol-free IPAs at the specialists, see our guide to the best alcohol-free IPAs.
Facts checked against Left Handed Giant’s own website (About, mission and alcohol-free pages), EEBRIA Trade, Beer Gonzo, Inn Express, Alcohol Change UK, The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, 1 November 2026.
Left Handed Giant Beers in Our Directory
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