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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Wood

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Extracting hangovers from beer inside the world s biggest nolo brewery in south wales - What They Never Told You

‘Nolo’ beers stands for no- or low-alcohol beers, and sales are booming.
‘Nolo’ beers stands for no- or low-alcohol beers, and sales are booming. Photograph: ViewApart/Getty Images/iStockphoto

A “de-alcoholisation facility” sounds like somewhere to check in after a boozy Christmas, but in the new annexe of a brewery in south Wales they are extracting hangovers from beer.

With demand for no-alcohol and low-alcohol (“nolo”) beer taking off in the UK, the hi-tech brewing apparatus enables the plant at Magor, which produces more than 1bn pints of Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois a year, to make the increasingly popular teetotal versions too.

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