So I went to a mate’s house to watch the football. He’s a drinker and he knows I’m not so he did the right thing and bought me some nice craft non alcoholic beers from a local store. After finishing the third I read the back of the label. The front clearly says “no alcohol” and there on the back it’s got 0.5% abv . Now the proper no alcohol is 0.01%, 0.5% seems a little high for non alcoholic. I didn’t drink anymore and switched to a cup of tea (British what can I say). On 0.5% I certainly didn’t feel anything at all and it was an honest mistake, I’m a bit pissed off, would anyone call this a relapse, I’m on 346 days and really not looking forward to resetting?
Personally, no. It was unintended and you stopped as soon as you realised.
Again, personally, it’s why I stay away from NA drinks. But I can understand your mate just doing what he thought was best. No blame there.
The main reason we could consider 0.5% alcohol-free is there’s a similar amount of alcohol in many natural foods that aren’t labelled as containing alcohol. For instance, this study found:
0.5% alcohol in the edible portion of ripe bananas
Does it really have 0.5%? At least here NA beers always labelled that they are allowed to have 0.5 max, but they dont say what they actually have. According to other sources they typically have like 0.1-0.2
No don’t reset, you didn’t intentionally go out to drink alcohol, it’s a genuine error that won’t catch you out again.
I used to drink Becks Blue 0.5% the last time I tried to get sober. This time around I decided it was too high and any traces of alcohol in any drink had to go. Last time around I still got cravings, this time I don’t, the odd creeping thought but no real cravings. It just makes me think that the slight alcohol in it could have been keeping the sleeping demon (my addiction as I picture it) slightly fed and therefore easily rousable?! Probably psychological but they are a no for me from now on
You weren’t INTENTIONAL about having a drink so my answer is NO you don’t need to reset. I got the same responses when I made a similar mistake a couple weeks ago. I do have to agree with CaptAZ though(in his comment) we need to be really careful. You can check the post out and the responses if you want to…
