Big_bud
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It's quite simple. Alcohol is banned in Islam. If a drink has no alcohol then it is halal.
In the West they sometimes have beer with 0.5% alcohol which they can legally call non-alcoholic. Normal beer has 5% alcohol. So, you have to drink 10 bottles of 0.5% beer to get the same buzz as one normal bottle. From the Islamic perspective 0.5% beer is controversial. Some can say that you'll never get drunk with it, so it is okay. Some will say that it is haram because it has a tiny amount of alcohol.
But beer with zero percent (0.0%) alcohol is obviously halal.
Examples.
Beer with 0.5% alcohol by volume (ABV)
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Beer with 0.0% alcohol by volume (ABV)
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A lot of food products have 0.5% or traces alcohol. Even ice-creams & juices can have traces of alcohol. Many food products naturally get traces of alcohol in them while being made. So an aim for 0% alcohol might not be attainable in several things & may not be a correct criteria, this definition is over simplistic. PS I have no interest in consuming any sort of beer 0% or 0.5%. I am just highlighting a technical detail which molvis overlook because they don't know.