Free Beer* bike cart carries brews you can (legally) enjoy in public

📸: Aidan Knight serving nonnies from his Free Beer* cart / Provided

For a couple decades now, Victoria’s award-winning breweries have been a huge part of the craft beer revolution. That creative explosion has brought an emphasis on flavour and experience into beer drinking.

Could the next evolution be delivering all that taste and variety without beer’s defining ingredient—alcohol?

Drinking less is becoming a trend, with consumers cutting out booze for personal or health reasons. With the new lower health recommendations for drinks per week, people are turning to no- and low-alcohol beverages (also called “non-alcs, “NAs,” and in some cases “near beers”). In response, some of Victoria’s most popular craft brewers are expanding into NAs, such as Phillips with its iOTA beer line.

Local musician Aidan Knight thinks the time is ripe for more brewers—and more drinkers—in this craft mecca to explore this other side of beer.

Check out the live interview with Aidan Knight here: