Moersleutel Alcohol-Free Beers

Moersleutel is a family-run craft brewery in Alkmaar, in the Netherlands, started by four brothers and known for its stouts. Its alcohol-free beer in the UK is Motor Oil NA, a 0.5% stout based on its 12% flagship; in the Netherlands it also makes Wrench 0.5, an alcohol-free IPA.

Who are Moersleutel?

Moersleutel tells its story as four Dutch brothers, “fresh out of technical studies”, who “aimed to prove to be better at anything to their dad, especially in brewing.” A first attempt came out as what the Dutch call ditch water, it says, but they kept going, and that led to the very first Moersleutel Barrel Blend, an imperial stout. It dates itself to 2016 in Alkmaar; Ferment magazine reported in 2022 that Pim and Rob started brewing first, with their father and his friend, and that Tom and Max joined in 2016. The name means “wrench”, Ferment says.

Pim, the eldest, runs the business side and Rob handles production and recipes, Ferment reported; Tom and Max run an engineering company, Zomerdijk Engineering, the brewery says. Its website has the heading “Family Owned”, it grew with the help of crowdfunding, The Brewer Magazine reported, and Ferment called it “an independent, family-owned brewery” in 2023. We couldn’t check the Dutch company register, but we found no drinks group involved, so we list it as independent.

What Moersleutel brews

Most of what it brews is heavy stout or barrel-aged beer, The Brewer Magazine reported, and its flagship is Motor Oil, a 12% imperial stout, “dark as night and thick as syrup”, the brewery says. Untappd lists 407 Moersleutel beers with more than 2.6 million ratings, and in June 2026 it marked the brewery’s tenth year with a badge, linked to a 10 Year Anniversary Box of ten beers. Ferment, the Beer52 magazine, gave it the Beer Geeks award in its own 2023 awards. We found no awards for its alcohol-free beers.

It runs a brewery tour in Dutch on the first Saturday of each month, at €25 including three beers; the 2026 and 2027 tours are “completely sold out!”, it says.

How big is Moersleutel?

It began in an old soup kitchen brewing 600 litres a month and now produces 60,000 litres a month, NH Nieuws reported in February 2024. Ferment gave its maximum capacity as 9,000 hectolitres in December 2023.

Moersleutel’s alcohol-free beers

Motor Oil NA is the brewery’s “Motor Oil Non-Alcoholic 0.5 Stout”: 0.5%, in 440ml cans, brewed from “our beloved dose of barley, rye, wheat, and hops” with vanilla, tonka, coffee, raisins and cinnamon, the raisins and cinnamon steamed for 12 hours, it says. It describes “full body and intense flavor”. Moersleutel calls it a stout, not an imperial stout: “imperial” is some UK shops’ word, and belongs to the 12% Motor Oil. Dry Drinker’s listing gives barley, oats and wheat; we go by the brewer’s list. Nobody publishes its calories that we could find.

It’s based on the Motor Oil recipe, RODI reported in January 2026, but Moersleutel doesn’t say how it’s made. Pim Zomerdijk told RODI that stout is by nature full, dark and layered, which is exactly why it was long thought it wasn’t possible with no alcohol). With Motor Oil 0.5, he said, the brewery shows that assumption is wrong. It was already sold in specialist shops and at the brewery, and was to go into Dutch supermarkets nationwide from March 2026, RODI reported, making Moersleutel the first Dutch brewer with an alcohol-free stout in supermarkets across the country.

Wrench 0.5 was appearing at the same time, the alcohol-free version of Moersleutel’s well-known hoppy beer, RODI reported. It’s an alcohol-free IPA, 0.5%, brewed with Mosaic, Citra and Nelson Sauvin hops, beertasting.com says, and a Dutch shop sells it in 33cl cans. It isn’t in our directory, and we haven’t checked whether it’s sold in the UK.

How Motor Oil NA compares

Alcohol-free stouts from European breweries in our directory. Calories as published; Moersleutel doesn’t publish any. Checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Moersleutel beer in our directory

Checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Moersleutel

On 30 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had Motor Oil NA at £33.85 for six, Dry Drinker at £34.53, and Wise Bartender had single cans at £5.70; those are affiliate links. Moersleutel’s own webshop offers free shipping to the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France on orders over €70; the UK isn’t on that list. For more, see our guides to the best alcohol-free stout and the best Dutch alcohol-free beer.

Facts checked against Moersleutel’s own website, RODI, NH Nieuws, Ferment (Beer52), The Brewer Magazine, Untappd, beertasting.com, alcoholvrijbierhuis.nl, The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, 31 October 2026.