Lucky Saint Alcohol-Free Beers

Lucky Saint has done more to change how Britain thinks about alcohol-free beer than any other brewery. Since 2018, the London-founded, Bavaria-brewed brand has built a reputation for making non-alcoholic lager that genuinely tastes like proper beer — and in doing so, quietly redefined what UK drinkers expect from the category.

Who are Lucky Saint?

Founded by Luke Boase in 2018, Lucky Saint started with a single mission: make an alcohol-free lager good enough to sit on the bar alongside Stella, Peroni or Heineken without apology. Boase had grown frustrated with the options available to non-drinkers in UK pubs — watery imports, sugary mocktails, or the inevitable lime and soda — and set out to brew something better.

The beer is brewed in a family-run Bavarian brewery using traditional German methods. Crucially, Lucky Saint doesn't just remove alcohol from finished beer — they use a specialist brewing process that prevents alcohol from forming in the first place, which preserves far more flavour than conventional alcohol-removal techniques.

The result has become a cultural fixture. Lucky Saint is now stocked in thousands of UK pubs, restaurants and supermarkets, from independent London gastropubs to Wetherspoons and Tesco. The brewery also operates its own flagship pub in London's Marylebone — The Lucky Saint — which serves a rotating selection of full-strength beers alongside their own alcohol-free range.

What makes Lucky Saint different?

Three things separate Lucky Saint from the wider alcohol-free beer market:

Bavarian brewing heritage

While many UK alcohol-free beers are produced using aggressive dealcoholisation techniques, Lucky Saint uses a careful fermentation process in a brewery that has been making beer for generations. The malt-forward character, the natural haze, the lingering bitterness — all genuine, not engineered.

No-compromise branding

Lucky Saint's packaging and positioning look like premium craft beer, not a diet product. That matters. It signals to drinkers — and to the bar staff serving them — that choosing alcohol-free doesn't mean stepping away from drinking culture.

Genuine pub presence

More than any other alcohol-free brand, Lucky Saint has fought for — and won — proper draught listings in British pubs. When you order one, it's poured from a tap like any other lager. That normalisation is arguably Lucky Saint's biggest cultural contribution to UK drinking.

The Lucky Saint range: which should you try first?

Lucky Saint's range is deliberately focused. Rather than sprawling across every style, they've concentrated on doing a few things exceptionally well.

Lucky Saint Unfiltered Lager (0.5%)

The flagship. Pale gold, naturally hazy, with a bready malt backbone and delicate hop aroma. This is the beer that built the brand and still represents the benchmark for UK alcohol-free lager. If you've only ever had one Lucky Saint beer, make it this one. Community score: 8.7/10.

Lucky Saint Hazy IPA (0.5%)

Lucky Saint's more recent expansion into hoppier territory. A juicy, tropical-forward hazy IPA with the body and mouthfeel of a full-strength NEIPA. Worth trying if you've previously assumed alcohol-free IPAs couldn't hold up to the real thing. Community score: 8.6/10.

Lucky Saint Superior Lemon Lager (0.5%)

A natural lemon-infused lager — bright, refreshing, and perfect for warmer weather. Works especially well with food. If you like Italian-style lagers like Peroni, this is the alcohol-free equivalent. Community score: 8.4/10.

Is Lucky Saint alcohol-free beer worth buying?

If you're new to alcohol-free beer and want to understand why people bother, Lucky Saint is the brewery to start with. Their unfiltered lager is consistently the beer recommended to sceptics — the one that makes people go 'oh, actually, this is just good beer.'

For context on where Lucky Saint sits in the broader UK alcohol-free beer landscape, see our guide to the best alcohol-free beers in the UK or browse the full alcohol-free lager category.