Whiplash Alcohol-Free Beers

Whiplash is a Dublin brewery founded in 2016, which has brewed at its own brewery in Ballyfermot since 2019. It makes two alcohol-free beers: Never Drinking Again, a 0.5% hazy IPA, and No Dose Pils, a 0.3% unfiltered pilsner.

Who are Whiplash?

Alan Wolfe and Alex Lawes had both worked at Guinness and met at Rye River Brewing in Kildare, The Brewers Journal reported. Whiplash began in 2016 as a “weekend project making one-off beers”, the brewer says; The Brewers Journal describes it as starting “as a contract brewing operation”. The company, Whiplash Beer Limited, was incorporated on 12 April 2016, according to Solocheck, which republishes the Irish company register.

“2018 saw them go full time and brewing at facilities across Ireland and Europe”, the brewer says. Pellicle reported in 2021 that it had brewed at WhiteFrontier in Switzerland, Gypsy Hill in south London, Dundalk Bay Brewing and Larkin’s in Co. Wicklow. Its own brewery opened in 2019: in Ballyfermot, Dublin, the brewer and The Brewers Journal say, while Pellicle placed it in the Cherry Orchard area, with a five-hectolitre brewhouse and first brew on 4 November 2019.

In 2021 Pellicle described the founders as its co-owners. Solocheck lists eight shareholders without naming them. We found no sign of a drinks group’s stake, so we list it as independent; we couldn’t check the register itself, which wouldn’t load.

What Whiplash brews

Its best-selling beer, it says, is Blue Ghosts, a 5.2% pilsner. Scaldy Porter and the double IPA Surrender to the Void were early hits, The Brewers Journal reported, and its range includes a 5% gluten-free West Coast IPA, Note to Self.

The consumer group Beoir voted it brewery of the year in 2019, and that year it was the first Irish brewery invited to the Mikkeller Beer Celebration in Copenhagen, Pellicle reported; in 2020 it was named Ireland’s best brewery on Untappd and RateBeer. The brewer also lists awards from Honest Brew and Beer52, which we couldn’t confirm. We found no awards for its alcohol-free beers. The founders started the Fidelity beer festival in 2019 and opened the Fidelity bar on Queen Street, Dublin, with The Big Romance in December 2022.

Whiplash’s alcohol-free beers

Never Drinking Again is a 0.5% hazy, unfiltered IPA: “A beautifully hazy, unfiltered orange-juice-like IPA bursting with vibrant flavour”, with New Zealand hops giving “a juicy tropical hit of gooseberry, mango, and apricot”, the brewer says, at 18 IBU. It’s part of its year-round range, and Cave Direct, a UK trade distributor, lists it as a permanent beer in 30-litre kegs.

No Dose Pils, on its shop since July 2026, is a 0.3% unfiltered pilsner, “A tribute to our best selling beer Blue Ghosts”, “designed to have all the great things Blue Ghosts has without the booze”, the brewer says, at 36 IBU. The Alcohol Free Co’s spec box gives about 0.5%; we use the brewer’s 0.3%. The brewer also sells a mixed six of the two.

Both come in 330ml cans and contain cereals with gluten. Whiplash doesn’t say how it makes them, and nobody publishes their calories or ingredients that we could find.

How Never Drinking Again compares

Alcohol-free hazy IPAs in our directory. Calories as published; checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Whiplash beers in our directory

Checked October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Whiplash

On 29 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had both, from £17.49 for six, and Dry Drinker had Never Drinking Again at £17.49 for six; those are affiliate links. Whiplash’s own UK page points buyers to KWM Wine for a “selected range”; we couldn’t read KWM’s site, so we don’t know whether that includes the alcohol-free beers. More in our guide to the best alcohol-free hazy IPAs.

Facts checked against Whiplash’s own website, Pellicle, The Brewers Journal, Solocheck, Cave Direct, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker, 31 October 2026.