Toast Ale Alcohol-Free Beers
One Toast beer in our directory: Changing Tides, a 0.5% lager brewed with surplus bread, the shops say.
Toast Ale makes beer with surplus bread. Tristram Stuart founded it in 2016, according to Wikipedia, and B Lab lists it, as Toast Brewing, as a certified B Corp. Its alcohol-free beer in UK shops is Changing Tides, a 0.5% lager.
- Company: Toast Ale Ltd, Dry Drinker says; Toast Brewing in the B Lab directory, London Borough of Camden
- Founded: 2016, by Tristram Stuart, according to Wikipedia
- Profits: All go to the charity Feedback, its home page says
- B Corp: Since March 2018, the B Lab directory shows
- Owner: Not found, so we don’t mark it as independent
- Alcohol-free: Changing Tides Lager, 0.5%
- Where to buy: The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker
Who are Toast?
Tristram Stuart, who founded the charity Feedback in 2013, started Toast Ale, “a company that makes ale from surplus bread”, according to Wikipedia. The B Lab directory lists the company as Toast Brewing, in the London Borough of Camden, with a B Corp certification date of March 2018.
Toast’s home page says all its profits go to the charity Feedback; B Lab’s listing says it gives 100% of its profits to environmental charities. The home page also says Toast launched with Hackney Brewery and is currently brewing with Hambleton Ales in Yorkshire, though we couldn’t confirm that’s up to date, and it links a recipe for brewing with your own surplus bread; Wikipedia says the recipe is open source. Wikipedia names sahti from Finland, kvass and bouza among traditional bread beers.
We couldn’t read Toast’s own history, impact or product pages, so this page leaves out what we couldn’t check, including its awards, its investors and how much bread it has used. We found nothing on who owns the company, so we don’t mark it as independent.
Changing Tides Lager
Changing Tides is a 0.5% lager in 330ml cans. The Alcohol Free Co says it’s brewed with surplus bread, pilsner malt and English hops, Challenger and Sovereign; Dry Drinker says it’s brewed in the UK with surplus bread, malted barley and English hops. Dry Drinker’s notes describe a pale gold beer with a light white head, light grain, fresh citrus and soft spice on the nose, and crisp malt, lemony citrus and light herbal hops; The Alcohol Free Co mentions bright citrus notes, gentle spice and a crisp finish.
Neither shop gives a calorie figure, and we couldn’t check Toast’s own site, so we don’t quote one. We found no launch date and nothing on how it’s made.
How Changing Tides compares
Alcohol-free lagers from UK breweries in our directory. We couldn’t confirm a calorie figure for Changing Tides. Calories as published; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
The Toast beer in our directory
We couldn’t confirm a calorie figure for Changing Tides. Calories as published; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
Where to buy Toast
On 1 November 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had Changing Tides at £4.54 a can or £25.59 for six, and Dry Drinker at £25.47 for six; both had cases of 12 and 24 too. Those are affiliate links. For more, see our guide to the best alcohol-free lager.
Facts checked against Wikipedia, the B Lab directory, Toast’s home page, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker, 1 November 2026.
Toast Ale Beers in Our Directory
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