The Best Non-Alcoholic Stout, According to Reddit
According to an analysis of 40,602 comments across Reddit's non-alcoholic beer communities, the best non-alcoholic stout of 2026 is Deschutes Black Butte Non-Alcoholic.
This page ranks the 4 stouts that non-alcoholic beer drinkers actually recommend to each other on Reddit. No taste panel, no sponsors, no pay for placement.
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Stout is the toughest style to make well without alcohol, and the field is thinner than it is for IPA or lager. Roast and body are the two things that define a stout, and alcohol contributes to both. It carries flavor and adds a warming fullness that offsets the natural acidity of roasted barley. Take the alcohol out and the beer tends to thin while the roast reads ashy and sour. The brewers who solve this rebuild the body with oats, unfermentable dextrins, or lactose, and they pull the roast back toward coffee and dark chocolate instead of acid. Guinness 0.0 showed in 2021 that the creamy nitrogen texture a stout drinker expects can survive the process, which is a real reason the category, porters included, gets taken seriously today. That difficulty is exactly why the best non-alcoholic stout is worth seeking out.
This ranking isn't my opinion. It's built from thousands of real discussions on r/NABeer and the wider Reddit conversation, scored on how many drinkers actually stand behind each beer and how strongly they say so. No brewery paid to be here, and I don't decide the order. The system does. Every rank shows its receipts, the real comments people wrote, so you can check the call for yourself. Open any beer on the list and read what drinkers actually said.
See the full ranking of all stylesAll 4 stouts, ranked
Sort by Reddit standing or venue picks · open any beer to read the Reddit comments behind it.
“Better than any alcoholic dark beer I've had. Caramel-y, chocolate notes with coffee. Thick and delicious.”r/NABEER · Jun 2026 →
“Guinness 0 is the best, most authentic tasting NA beer.”r/NABEER · Feb 2026 →
“Athletic All Out Dark is my favorite these days - it has an oatmeal stout character to it and it’s delicious!”r/NABEER · Aug 2025 →
“I'm drinking the Raspberry Espresso Dark Beer slowly and I would order it again as dessert beer”r/NABEER · Mar 2025 →
Quotes are short excerpts from public Reddit discussions, linked to their source threads. ChillMaps is not affiliated with or endorsed by Reddit.
The best tasting stouts
When a drinker writes "X beats Y", that's a real taste comparison with no marketing in the room. These stouts win those head-to-head matchups most often. Deschutes Black Butte Non-Alcoholic holds the strongest record, at 49 wins against 14 losses.
How this ranking works
Here's the short version. I built a system that reads the non-alcoholic beer conversation on Reddit, 3,039 discussions and 40,602 comments, and scores every beer on how many different people vouch for it, how strong the praise is, and how it does head-to-head. I own r/NABeer, so the scoring had to be mechanical. The system ranks the beers, not me. Click any beer to read the actual quotes behind its rank.
Read the full methodologyBest non-alcoholic stout, answered
What is the best non-alcoholic stout?
Deschutes Black Butte Non-Alcoholic leads our ranking of the best non-alcoholic stouts and porters, based on 3,039 Reddit discussions among NA beer drinkers. All 4 ranked stouts and porters are above, each with the real quotes behind its rank.
Does Guinness 0 taste like real Guinness?
It comes closer than most people expect. The nitro pour delivers the creamy, cascading mouthfeel that defines Guinness, and the roasted, dry finish is intact. It's the beer most credited by Reddit drinkers with proving a non-alcoholic stout can feel like the real thing.
Are non-alcoholic stouts thin or watery?
The bad ones are, which is exactly why body is the hardest part of brewing an NA stout. The beers on this list cleared that bar. They keep the roast, the chocolate and coffee notes, and enough mouthfeel to drink like a stout rather than dark water.
Best non-alcoholic beer by style
Every style with a real field, ranked from the same Reddit data.
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