Trzech Kumpli Alcohol-Free Beers

Trzech Kumpli is a craft brewery based in Tarnów, Poland, owned half and half by Piotr Sosin and Irmina Wachna-Sosin, Forbes Poland reports. Its alcohol-free line, BezalkØ, began with an IPA in 2020, and two of its beers are in our directory: Pan IPAni and an oatmeal stout made with nitrogen, both below 0.5%, the brewer says.

Who are Trzech Kumpli?

The name goes back to the founders’ amateur days: Piotr Sosin told Forbes Poland the name dates from when the founders brewed as amateurs, first in his kitchen and later in the cellar. Beer52, the UK beer subscription service, says it translates roughly as “three pals”.

The brewery was conceived in a Tarnów kitchen, it says, after school friends started home brewing in 2011, and it brewed its first commercial batch in July 2014. Beer52’s account has him teaming up with childhood friends from Tarnów, Irmina, Tymek and Maciek, while Forbes Poland says two friends who brewed with him didn’t join the business, so the sources differ.

Today the brewer’s team page lists Piotr as founder and co-owner and Irmina as co-owner and creator of the brand, leading marketing and strategy. They told Forbes Poland they are 50/50 shareholders, and it counts the brewery among Poland’s most recognisable craft breweries. Piotr is also vice president of the Polish Craft Brewers Association, the brewer says. We found no larger group involved, so we list it as independent.

Where Trzech Kumpli brews

The brewer says it is a craft brewery based in Tarnów. It brewed at four different breweries between 2014 and 2017 before settling at Browar Zapanbrat in 2017 for good, and its beers are brewed there under contract; Zapanbrat’s owners, Przemek and Michał, are listed as the owners of the partner brewery. It once imagined a brewery of its own, most likely in Mościce, in Tarnów, where its company shop is, but recent years changed those plans, it says.

The sources don’t agree on where Zapanbrat is. Beer52 places it in or near Żywiec, while Forbes Poland quotes Sosin as saying he began producing beer in Zawiercie, after contract brewing at Wojkówka, Nowy Sącz and Szczyrzyc. The brewer’s site gives no address for it, so we don’t name the town.

How big is Trzech Kumpli?

Trzech Kumpli and Browar Zapanbrat together employ 25 people, the brewer says. In an older article Beer52 said Trzech Kumpli was Zapanbrat’s only client and that supermarkets took less than 5% of its sales. Forbes Poland reported its market share growing in a year when the Polish beer market fell by 7%. We found no figure for how much it brews a year.

What Trzech Kumpli brews

It uses only water, malt, hops and yeast, the brewer says, with hops from the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Czechia and Poland. Its range pages list about 150 of its beers, from classic and new-wave styles to strong beers, sours and its Full and “Our New IPA” series.

Its flagship is Pan IPAni, a 6% wheat IPA first brewed in February 2015 with Citra, Mosaic, Sabro, Simcoe, Motueka and Nelson Sauvin hops, it says; Forbes Poland names Pan IPAni and Califia as its flagships.

In its debut at the World Beer Awards 2026, four golds, five silvers and a bronze went to its beers, the brewer says, among them gold for the full-strength Pan IPAni as a New England IPA. Its alcohol-free medals, it says, were silver for BezalkØ Oatmeal Stout (Non Alcoholic Stout & Porter), silver for BezalkØ Pan IPAni (Non Alcoholic IPA) and bronze for BezalkØ.Ø Tropical Sour (Non Alcoholic Flavored). We haven’t checked these against the organiser’s results.

Trzech Kumpli’s alcohol-free beers

The brewer calls its alcohol-free line BezalkØ, or “Unplugged”. It says that for its first unplugged beer it chose the alcohol-free IPA, which was first brewed in August 2020, the Oatmeal Stout in September 2020, a Citrus APA in February 2023 and the alcohol-free Pan IPAni in May 2024. Its alcohol-free page lists an IPA, Pan IPAni, Citrus APA, Oatmeal Stout, a Raspberry Cold Brew Sour Ale, a Tropical Sour Ale with mango, passion fruit and white guava, Pszeniczne, a wheat beer with banana and clove, and a Witbier Unplugged.

The Citrus APA is labelled 0.0%; the IPA, Pan IPAni and Oatmeal Stout are labelled below 0.5%. The brewer says it developed its own method, using entirely craft methods, and Sosin told Forbes Poland that it developed its own solution, but most craft breweries make 0.5% beers. Neither says whether the alcohol is removed or the fermentation limited. Unplugged is among its ten best-sellers and demand for alcohol-free has outpaced production, Forbes Poland reported.

Pan IPAni had been the brewery’s brewing holy grail for several years, the brewer says, and it calls it a non-alcoholic wheat IPA. It’s brewed with pilsner and wheat malt, wheat and oat flakes, and Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo, Sabro, Talus and Columbus hops, and the brewer describes mango and passion fruit in the flavour with pleasant malt notes. It gives 28 kcal (117 kJ) per 100ml, with 3.6g of sugars. Dry Drinker sells it as an “Alcohol Free Polish IPA”.

The Oatmeal Stout is brewed from barley malt, oat flakes, roasted barley and Chinook hops, and it fills the beer with nitrogen instead of carbon dioxide, the brewer says. It describes roast, coffee and dark chocolate in the aroma, a velvety, creamy texture and a cascading pour, and says the beer is light in flavour but seems full thanks to the nitrogen. It gives 25 kcal (107 kJ) per 100ml, with 2.57g of sugars. Dry Drinker sells it as Nitro Oatmeal Stout.

How Trzech Kumpli’s stout compares

Alcohol-free nitro stouts in our directory. Calories as published in our directory; checked 1 November 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10. Trzech Kumpli gives 25 kcal per 100ml for its stout.

The Trzech Kumpli beers in our directory

Checked 1 November 2026. Trzech Kumpli gives 28 kcal per 100ml for Pan IPAni and 25 kcal for the Oatmeal Stout, and labels both below 0.5%. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Trzech Kumpli

On 1 November 2026 Dry Drinker listed both beers, at £36.40 for six cans, but every pack was sold out. We found no Trzech Kumpli beer at The Alcohol Free Co or Wise Bartender, or in UK supermarkets. The brewer has a shop in Tarnów and an online shop on its website; we haven’t checked whether it sends beer to the UK. For alcohol-free stouts and IPAs you can buy now, see our guides to alcohol-free stout and alcohol-free IPA.

Facts checked against Trzech Kumpli’s own website, Forbes Poland, Beer52, Beertasting and Dry Drinker, 1 November 2026.