Super Bock Alcohol-Free Beers

Super Bock is a Portuguese beer brand, born in 1927 and brewed by the Super Bock Group in Leça do Balio, in which Carlsberg holds 44%. Two of its alcohol-free beers are sold in the UK: a pale Pilsner, whose strength the sources give differently, and a dark beer the shops call a stout.

Who are Super Bock?

“The Super Bock trademark was filed on 3 March and approved on 9 November 1927,” the brewer says. A few months earlier, in October 1926, the beer won its first grand prize at the Portuguese Industrial Exhibition at Porto’s Palácio de Cristal, according to Wikipedia. Super Bock received its first Monde Sélection gold medal in 1985, and in 2005 became Portugal’s most-ordered beer, it says; Wikipedia says Super Bock Original has won 46 Monde Selection medals.

The Super Bock Group

The company behind it was founded in 1890 as CUFP, the Companhia União Fabril Portuense das Fábricas de Cerveja e Bebidas Refrigerantes, restructured and renamed Unicer in 1977, and renamed Super Bock Group in 2017, according to Wikipedia. It’s based on the former CUFP site in Leça do Balio, the group says, where capacity is now 450 million litres. Alongside Super Bock it sells Cristal, Carlsberg (brewed under licence since 1992), Água das Pedras, Vidago, Pedras Salgadas, wines and ciders, Wikipedia says.

VIACER owns 56% of the group and the Carlsberg Group the other 44%, the group says. VIACER is itself 71.5% owned by the Violas family and 28.5% by Carlsberg, according to Wikipedia. Because Carlsberg holds a large stake, we don’t list Super Bock as independent.

What Super Bock brews

Wikipedia lists Original, a pilsner, alongside Stout, Green, Abadia, a gluten-free beer (Sem Glúten) and two alcohol-free beers, Free and Free Preta. The full-strength Stout launched in 2003 and “sold five million liters in three months”. Wikipedia calls Super Bock the best-selling Portuguese beer worldwide and says the group trades in more than 50 countries.

Super Bock’s alcohol-free beers

Super Bock launched what it calls “The best-selling non-alcoholic beer in Portugal” in 2008, its own timeline says, and in August 2013 the first containers with half a million litres of Super Bock Non-Alcoholic 0.0% went to Saudi Arabia, according to Wikipedia. A separate Super Bock 0.0% reached the Portuguese market in 2022, the group says, and in July 2026 it added Super Bock 0.0 Tropical, sold in hypermarkets and supermarkets in 6 × 33cl packs; the group calls itself the market leader in alcohol-free beer.

For Super Bock Free, the brewer says it produces a wort “similar to that of Super Bock” but adapts the brewing temperature, and the alcohol “is removed in a distillation column and separated from the beer.” Wikipedia says it’s dealcoholised without stopping fermentation. In March 2020 the brewer announced that about 56,000 litres of alcohol from its non-alcoholic beer production would be made into roughly 14,000 litres of hand gel by Destilaria Levira, to be offered to three hospital units in the Porto region, postal.pt reported.

Super Bock Pilsner

The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker list Super Bock Pilsner at 0.0%, and Wise Bartender at 0.5%. Its nutrition and ingredients match the brewer’s Super Bock Free, which Super Bock gives as “<0,45 %” alcohol and, elsewhere on the same page, “less than or equal to 0.5% vol.”, rather than its separate Super Bock 0.0, which has about 26 kcal and 6.0g of carbohydrate per 100ml. So we can’t confirm that it’s 0.0%.

The shops and Super Bock’s Free page give 23 kcal (96 kJ) per 100ml, with 4.7g of carbohydrate, of which 1.0g sugars: about 76 kcal in a 330ml bottle (our sum). It’s brewed from water, barley malt, unmalted cereals (corn and barley), flavouring and hops, so it isn’t gluten-free. The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker describe it as pale golden with a crisp malt body, floral hop aroma and a clean, refreshing finish, best served cold with Mediterranean dishes or light meals. It has an Unhopped score of 7.4 out of 10.

Super Bock Stout

In Portugal the dark beer is Super Bock Free Dark, which the brewer classes as an International Dark Lager, at “<0,5%”; the UK shops call it a stout and list it at 0.5%. Super Bock gives 26 kcal (109 kJ) per 100ml, with 5.6g of carbohydrate, of which 2.7g sugars: about 86 kcal in a 330ml bottle (our sum). Wise Bartender lists water, barley malt, unmalted cereals (maize and barley), flavours and hops, so it isn’t gluten-free. The brewer doesn’t say how it removes the alcohol from this one.

Super Bock calls it “A full-bodied beer with an intense flavour”. The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker describe roasted malt, coffee and chocolate aromas and a smooth, balanced flavour with medium body, best at 10–12°C with cheese, desserts or hearty dishes.

How Super Bock Pilsner compares

Alcohol-free lagers from Spain, Portugal and Italy in our directory. ABVs as the shops list them. Calories as published; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Super Bock beers in our directory

Calories as Super Bock and the shops give them. ABVs as The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker list them; Wise Bartender lists the Pilsner at 0.5%. Calories as published; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Super Bock

On 1 November 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had the Pilsner at £10.20 for six 330ml bottles (£1.70 for one), Dry Drinker at £9.90 for six, and Wise Bartender at £1.60 a bottle. The stout was the same price at The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker; we couldn’t confirm Wise Bartender’s stock of it that day. Those are affiliate links. For more dark beers, see our guide to the best alcohol-free stout.

Facts checked against Super Bock’s own website, the Super Bock Group, postal.pt, free-beer.co.uk, Wikipedia, The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, 1 November 2026.