Brewing non-alcoholic beer is a more costly process than making regular beer. It's made in one of two ways. Some brands are made my distilling the alcohol out of regular beer. The extra step adds to the cost. Others are made using "stupid yeast" that doesn't produce alcohol by fermentation. It is much more expensive than regular brewer's yeast. And, yes, the market for low-acolhol and non-alcoholic beers is much lower so the overhead per unit sold is much higher.

And it's good to hear that I'm not the only person in the world who has been stopped by the cops while drinking a non-alcoholic beer. That Kentucky Highway Patrolman certainly thought he had nailed a drunk driver until he went back and read the beer can.

Bruce