We Can Be Friends

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We Can Be Friends Alcohol-Free Beers

Nine We Can Be Friends beers in our directory, all sold at 0.5%: six in stock at The Alcohol Free Co, and Ghost, Zeus and Hades, which had sold out. We haven’t scored any yet.

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We Can Be Friends is an independent alcohol-free brand from south-east London, set up by Sam Ray in 2023. It has no brewery of its own: it brews with partner breweries, from Vault City in Edinburgh to Sureshot in Manchester, and every beer we’ve found from it is sold at 0.5%.

We Can Be Friends at a glance

Founded: September 2023 by Sam Ray; its first beer went on sale that December
Based: Chislehurst, south-east London (its registered office)
Owner: Sam Ray, so we list it as independent
Brews: With partner breweries; it has no brewery of its own
Where to buy: The Alcohol Free Co, which had six of its beers in stock on 28 October 2026; Dry Drinker had Cloudy Krush

Who are We Can Be Friends?

Sam Ray set up We Can Be Friends Ltd in September 2023, and its first beer went on sale in December 2023, he told the Sober Boozers Club podcast. He is its only director and majority owner. “Our aim is to make the best alcohol free beer in the world,” its website says, and it plans to make drinks that are “indistinguishable” from “their alcoholic cousins”.

It doesn’t have its own brewhouse. Instead it works with other breweries, “teaming up with the UK highest rated breweries”, in its own words. Its partners have included Track and Sureshot in Manchester, Overtone, Vault City in Edinburgh, Baron Brewing in Hertfordshire, the London pub True Craft, Brulo and Makemake, and it made a pilsner, Ghost In The Machine, with Mash Gang.

The beers

Its own shop sells a few beers at a time, and when we checked on 28 October 2026 it listed three: Eight, a New England IPA brewed with True Craft for its eighth birthday; Forever, a helles; and Day Off V3, the latest IPA brewed with Baron. All three had sold out there. The Alcohol Free Co had Eight and Forever, plus Day Off V2, Cosmic Groove, a Strata and Superdelic IPA, I’m The Shadowman, a hazy IPA with Sureshot, and Cloudy Krush, a lemon sour made with Vault City.

The first three We Can Be Friends beers we listed, Ghost, a Czech-style pils, Zeus, a lager, and Hades, a stout, were sold out at Dry Drinker and weren’t in the brewer’s shop. We Can Be Friends doesn’t publish ABVs, calories or ingredients lists on its own site, so the figures on our pages come from the shops.

The We Can Be Friends beers in our directory

Beer	Style	ABV	Per 100ml	Unhopped score	UK status
Eight	New England IPA (“quintessentially New England in style”, the brewer says)	0.5%	Not published	Not yet rated	In stock at The Alcohol Free Co
Forever	Helles lager	0.5%	Not published	Not yet rated	In stock at The Alcohol Free Co
Day Off V2	IPA	0.5%	Not published	Not yet rated	In stock at The Alcohol Free Co
Cosmic Groove	IPA	0.5%	Not published	Not yet rated	In stock at The Alcohol Free Co
I’m The Shadowman	Hazy IPA, The Alcohol Free Co says	0.5%	Not published	Not yet rated	In stock at The Alcohol Free Co
Cloudy Krush	Lemon sour, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker say	0.5%	Not published	Not yet rated	In stock at Dry Drinker and The Alcohol Free Co
Ghost	Czech-style pilsner	0.5%	Not published	Not yet rated	Sold out at Dry Drinker; not in the brewer’s shop
Zeus	Lager	0.5%	Not published	Not yet rated	Sold out at Dry Drinker; not in the brewer’s shop
Hades	Stout	0.5%	Not published	Not yet rated	Sold out at Dry Drinker; not in the brewer’s shop

Checked October 2026. ABVs are the shops’ figures. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy We Can Be Friends

The Alcohol Free Co had six We Can Be Friends beers in stock on 28 October 2026, from £22.58 for six cans of Day Off V2 to £30.18 for six of Cosmic Groove, and single cans from £3.95. Dry Drinker had Cloudy Krush at £28 for six. Those are affiliate links. We Can Be Friends’ own shop had sold out of everything it listed, and Wise Bartender doesn’t sell its beers.

Facts checked against Companies House, We Can Be Friends’ own website, the Sober Boozers Club podcast, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker, 28 October 2026.

Full Range

We Can Be Friends Beers in Our Directory

Hazy IPA

We Can Be Friends Eight

We Can Be Friends · UK

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Lager

We Can Be Friends Forever

We Can Be Friends · UK

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IPA

Baron x We Can Be Friends Day Off V2

We Can Be Friends · UK

0.5% ABV—

IPA

We Can Be Friends Cosmic Groove

We Can Be Friends · UK

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Hazy IPA

Sureshot x We Can Be Friends I’m The Shadowman

We Can Be Friends · UK

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Sour

We Can Be Friends Cloudy Krush

We Can Be Friends · UK

0.5% ABV—

Lager

We Can Be Friends Ghost Czech Pils

We Can Be Friends · UK

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Lager

We Can Be Friends Zeus Lager

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Stout

We Can Be Friends Hades Stout

We Can Be Friends · UK

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Frequently asked questions

Who owns We Can Be Friends?

Sam Ray, who set up the company, We Can Be Friends Ltd, in September 2023. Companies House lists him as its only director and as owning more than 75% of it, so we list it as independent.

Where is We Can Be Friends beer brewed?

At partner breweries: We Can Be Friends has no brewery of its own and says it teams up with “the UK highest rated breweries”. It doesn’t say where each beer is brewed. The company is registered in Chislehurst, in south-east London.

What ABV are We Can Be Friends beers?

Every one we’ve found is listed at 0.5% by the shops that sell it; We Can Be Friends doesn’t give ABVs on its own site. UK government guidance, which is voluntary, keeps the term alcohol-free for 0.05% ABV or below, though many 0.5% beers are sold in the UK as alcohol-free. More in our 0.0% vs 0.5% guide.

Which breweries has We Can Be Friends worked with?

Track, Overtone and Vault City, among others; Cloudy Krush is its beer with Vault City. In our directory there’s also I’m The Shadowman with Sureshot, Eight with True Craft and Day Off V2 with Baron Brewing. Shops also list beers with Brulo and Makemake, and it made a pilsner, Ghost In The Machine, with Mash Gang.

Where can I buy We Can Be Friends beer?

The Alcohol Free Co had six of its beers in stock on 28 October 2026, and Dry Drinker had Cloudy Krush; both are affiliate links on our pages. We Can Be Friends’ own shop listed three beers that day, all sold out. Wise Bartender doesn’t sell them.

Are Ghost, Zeus and Hades still available?

Not that we could find. Dry Drinker lists all three but had sold out of every case size on 28 October 2026, and none was in We Can Be Friends’ own shop or at The Alcohol Free Co. We don’t know whether they’ll be brewed again.