Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing (SiWC) Alcohol-Free Beers

Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing, or SiWC, is an independent brewery in Dunblane, Stirlingshire, built on “Big beer experiences at session strength”. Its range starts at 0.5%, and Lager Day Saints, a 0.5% Munich helles, is one of its first beers: the brewery was “very nearly called Lager Day Saints”, it says.

Who are Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing?

“Matty started Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing in a London garage in July 2021,” the brewery says. Companies House shows the company itself was set up in May 2019 as Little Big Brewery Ltd and renamed in February 2020, and Untappd lists Lager Day Saints from May 2021, so the dates don’t quite line up. Matty Dixon, from Banchory in Aberdeenshire, worked in oil and gas before doing an MBA at London Business School and becoming a brewer, the brewery and The Courier say.

He then moved back to Scotland. “We’ve been trying to find a home for probably about a year and a half,” he told The Courier in 2024, when the brewing kit was in Falkirk. SiWC says it “found its permanent home on Duckburn Industrial Estate in Dunblane in October 2024”; The Courier reported the kit installed there but not yet brewing, with brewing due to start early in 2025, and a first taproom day on 21 December 2024. “I’m determined to make the brewery a place for anyone and everyone, where all who enter are equal,” Dixon said.

The brewery says it is “working to create work opportunities for people who are physically and/or neurologically diverse”, that “Every SiWC beer is vegan”, and that its Dunblane brewery and taproom get their utilities from a renewable supplier, Valda Renewable. It made New Dawn, a 3% wheat beer, for the Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal, with 50p from each beer going to the charity, its shop says.

Who owns SiWC?

Companies House lists Matthew Dixon as holding 75% or more of the shares and as the only director, so we list it as independent. In a blog post in May 2026, SiWC said it is running an Enterprise Investment Scheme round, with “Advance Assurance from HMRC” for the first tranche, offered privately to eligible investors. That is a plan, not a completed raise: it gave no figures, and no new share allotment had been filed at Companies House when we checked.

What SiWC brews

“Our range starts at alcohol-free (0.5% ABV) and moves up, with most of our own beers landing between 3% and 4.5%,” SiWC says. Its shop includes Shetland Pony, a 2.8% pale ale and one of its first beers, Eisprinzessin, a 3% hazy IPA, Shadow, a 3.3% schwarzbier, and stronger specials such as Anti-Gravity, a double IPA. On Untappd, where it is listed as a nano brewery with 47 beers, its top beers include Dark Nebula, Undefeated, Shetland Pony and Lager Day Saints.

SiWC says it “entered nine beers at the European Beer Challenge and won nine medals” in 2022, with golds for Lager Day Saints, Shetland Pony, Edinburgh Blue Balls Lager and Easy Rinder, a 0.5% hefeweizen, and that “Many of our no- and low-alcohol beers received medals in full strength categories.” These are the brewer’s claims: we couldn’t find the competition’s own results, and the brewer’s blog post isn’t consistent with itself. We found no SiWC entries in SIBA’s 2025 or 2026 results.

Visiting the brewery

The taproom at Block 1 Unit 4, Duckburn Industrial Estate, opens on Thursdays and Fridays from 11am to 7pm, CAMRA and Dunblane.info say, with pop-up taprooms and a monthly “Social Sunday”. The 500-litre kit there makes canned, kegged and cask beer, “right beside the M&S store”, Dunblane.info says.

SiWC’s alcohol-free beers

Lager Day Saints is “A clean, refreshing Munich Helles” and “Real lager made with holy traditional methods”, SiWC says; “0.5% lager just stopped being sinfully bad.” The Alcohol Free Co describes “Crisp lager malt with a clean bitterness and smooth Helles style balance”. It comes in 440ml cans, and it was on Untappd by May 2021, before the move to Dunblane; SiWC doesn’t say where it’s brewed now, or how its alcohol-free beers are made.

SiWC lists its allergens as barley malts and wheat, and says it’s vegan but not gluten-free. A third-party review, which says it bought cans from the brewery, gives ingredients without wheat, which may be an older label. In January 2026 the brewery replied to a drinker on Untappd: “Need to try the new one! This one sold out a long time ago!”, which suggests a newer batch or recipe; it hasn’t said more. Nobody publishes its calories that we could find.

SiWC’s own shop also sells Memento Mori, a 0.5% hazy IPA with El Dorado, Krush, Idaho 7 and Zappa hops, made with barley and oats; Honey Badger, a 0.5% wheat beer, and a 0.5% Passion Fruit Pale Ale, both listed as gluten-free, “(Gluten is removed)”; and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Bitter, an American pale ale made with Crucible London, which it lists as both 0.0% and 0.5%.

How Lager Day Saints compares

Alcohol-free Helles from UK breweries in our directory. Calories per 100ml, as on each beer’s page (some are our sums from a per-can figure); checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The SiWC beer in our directory

Checked 31 October 2026. SiWC doesn’t publish calories for Lager Day Saints. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Lager Day Saints

On 29 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had single cans at £4.28 (an affiliate link), and SiWC’s own shop at £4. For more, see our guide to the best alcohol-free lager in the UK.

Facts checked against SiWC’s own website, blog and shop, Companies House, The Courier, CAMRA, Dunblane.info, Untappd, SIBA, free-beer.co.uk, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker, 31 October 2026.