Stiegl Alcohol-Free Beers

Stiegl dates itself to 1492, when its Salzburg brewhouse first appears in the records, and it’s privately owned by the Kiener family. Its 0,0% alkoholfrei, which it dealcoholises by gentle evaporation, is sold in the UK as Stiegl Lager 0.0.

Who are Stiegl?

Stiegl’s brewhouse first appears in the records in 1492, according to German Wikipedia, and the brewery says it has mastered the art of brewing since then. The name comes from a small staircase, a Stiege, that led from the brewery to the Almkanal canal, German Wikipedia says, and the logo refers to the same steps.

A family brewery in Salzburg

Stiegl has been “privately owned for more than 120 years by the Kiener family”, Salzburg.info says. Heinrich Kiener, a nephew of Franz Huemer, joined the brewery in 1889, and his descendants still run it, according to German Wikipedia; Dr Heinrich Dieter Kiener has led it since 1990, Beer Month Club says. Herbert Bauer has been managing director since April 2025, WKO Salzburg, the regional chamber of commerce, reported.

We found no drinks group involved, so we list it as independent. English Wikipedia calls Stiegl “the most popular beer of Austria that is not owned by Brau Union”, and Salzburg.info calls it “now Austria’s largest private brewery”.

What Stiegl brews

Its range runs from the classic Stiegl Goldbräu to a Hell, with limited house beers, artistic special editions and seasonal beers, Stiegl says; English Wikipedia also lists a Weissbier and a grapefruit Radler. KHS calls Goldbräu Austria’s most popular Märzen, and Falstaff gives it 91 points on its own rating. We found no awards for Stiegl’s alcohol-free beer.

Its brewmaster, Christian Pöpperl, says the brewery can “use the water from the Untersberg mountain exactly as it is when it emerges from the ground”, Beer Month Club reports.

How big is Stiegl?

It sells about 1,000,000 hectolitres of beer a year, German Wikipedia says. In 2026 Stiegl told WKO Salzburg it expected to reach about a million hectolitres again that year, and that it aimed to return to profit in 2027. KHS gives a figure of 700 employees, though we don’t know when that was counted.

Visitors can tour the Stiegl-Brauwelt, which Salzburg.info calls Europe’s largest beer experience world; the tour ends in the pub with a beer on the house, English Wikipedia says.

Stiegl’s alcohol-free beers

Stiegl says it reacted early to the shift towards alcohol-free beer: in 2012 with an alcohol-free Weisse, and later with Freibier, which the reviewer at free-beer.co.uk lists at 0.5% and dates to 2014. Its 0,0% alkoholfrei followed in 2025, a year after its Stieglitz lemonade launched in April 2024, WKO Salzburg reported, and Stiegl expects another alcohol-free beer in 2027.

For Stiegl 0,0%, the brewery invested a seven-figure sum in a dealcoholisation plant, WKO Salzburg reported. The alcohol is removed by gentle evaporation, and no beer aromas are added afterwards, Stiegl’s shop says. WKO Salzburg describes it as fully dealcoholised, at 0.0%, and Stiegl says it was the fastest-growing alcohol-free beer in Austria by sales in 2025.

Stiegl describes a filtered pale beer with a full malt body, fine hop notes and a stable white head. The Alcohol Free Co promises “a bright golden pour, soft grainy malt notes and a balanced, gentle hop bitterness”, and Wise Bartender mentions gentle malt sweetness, a soft bread-crust character and subtle bitterness. It’s brewed from water, barley malt, wheat malt, hops and yeast, with carbon dioxide from fermentation, according to the Austrian grocer Gurkerl.at, so it isn’t gluten-free.

Wise Bartender gives 24 kcal per 100ml, with 5.5g of carbohydrate, of which 2.7g sugars: about 120 kcal in a 500ml bottle (our sum). We found no nutrition figures from Stiegl itself. In the UK it comes in 500ml bottles; in Austria Stiegl sells crates of 20 returnable half-litre bottles. The UK shops call it Stiegl Lager 0.0, and it isn’t Stiegl Freibier, whatever Wise Bartender’s web address says.

How Stiegl’s 0.0 compares

Alcohol-free lagers from Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic in our directory. Calories as published; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Stiegl beer in our directory

Calories as listed by Wise Bartender. Calories as published; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Stiegl Lager 0.0

On 1 November 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had six 500ml bottles at £19.35 (£3.43 for one), Dry Drinker six at £18.88, and Wise Bartender single bottles at £3.20; those are affiliate links. The larger cases had sold out at The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker. For more, see our guide to the best alcohol-free lager.

Facts checked against Stiegl’s own website and shop, WKO Salzburg, Salzburg.info, SalzburgerLand, Beer Month Club, KHS, Falstaff, Gurkerl.at, free-beer.co.uk, Wikipedia (English and German), The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, 1 November 2026.