Real craft beer. Zero hangovers.

SOMA is a premium non-alcoholic craft beer, from a company founded in Bangalore, India. We brew real beer from malted barley, hops, water and yeast, and ferment it with a maltose-negative yeast that cannot eat the main sugar in beer wort, so the alcohol never climbs past 0.5% ABV. What you get is fermented craft beer flavor, not a malt-flavored soft drink. Five cans: SOMA Lager, SOMA IPA, SOMA Belgian Wit, SOMA Stout, and SOMA Caffeinated Stout.

SOMA contains less than 0.5% ABV. India's food regulations define an alcoholic beverage as one with more than 0.5% ABV, and other countries draw the line in other places, which getsoma.store/non-alcoholic-beer-rules sets out country by country. For perspective, that is a similar trace level to what naturally occurs in kombucha, ripe bananas, and some fruit juices. Every batch is lab-tested for ABV before it ships. The 0.5% definition, and the regulation it comes from, are at getsoma.store/numbers#definition.

We brew SOMA like any craft beer: mashing malted barley, boiling with hops, and fermenting with real brewer's yeast. The difference is the strain. Ours is maltose-negative, which means it cannot eat maltose, the main sugar in beer wort. It ferments the simple sugars, builds the esters and depth of a fermented beer, and leaves the alcohol under 0.5% ABV. Then every batch is pasteurized, lab-tested under 0.5% ABV, and canned in 250ml and 500ml aluminium cans.

Five styles, in 250ml and 500ml cans — ₹99 and ₹149 at launch against MRPs of ₹149 and ₹189. Sundowner (SOMA Lager) is crisp and clean. Juice Riot (SOMA IPA) is juicy and tropical. Sunday Wit (SOMA Belgian Wit) is a hazy wheat beer with orange peel and coriander. Dark Arts (SOMA Stout) is roasty coffee-and-cocoa depth. Dark Arts Espresso (SOMA Caffeinated Stout) is the same stout brewed with cold-brew coffee, and the only SOMA that contains caffeine.

Launch prices across all five styles: ₹149 for a 500ml can (MRP ₹189) and ₹99 for a 250ml can (MRP ₹149). A 6-pack of 500ml cans is ₹894 (MRP ₹1,134). SOMA Club subscriptions save 10–20% on top.

Fewer than regular beer. Per 500ml can, indicative: Sundowner (Lager) 63 calories, Sunday Wit 98, Juice Riot (IPA) 92, and both Dark Arts (Stout) and Dark Arts Espresso 99 — versus 200+ in a regular 5% lager of the same size. A 250ml can is half those figures. These are calculated from the recipe and will be confirmed by laboratory analysis of the first production batch before launch. Most of a beer's calories come from alcohol, so a beer that never makes much of it skips most of the calories too.

Yes. Dark Arts Espresso, our caffeinated stout, is the Dark Arts stout brewed with cold-brew coffee, so its caffeine is naturally occurring coffee caffeine rather than an additive. It is the only SOMA that contains caffeine; the per-can figure will be printed on the label and published at getsoma.store/nutrition once lab results are in. Every other SOMA, including the regular Dark Arts, is caffeine-free.

SOMA is in pre-order: we are not in production yet. Production starts after December 2026 and nothing ships before then; India is our first market, and delivery will be in Bangalore only for now. Pre-order at shop.getsoma.store and we will email your delivery window before we ship. Delivery is a flat ₹29 anywhere in Bangalore. Pan-India shipping is coming soon — join the waitlist and we will tell you the moment we reach your city.

SOMA launches after December 2026. Until then the site takes pre-orders only — we are not in production, and nothing ships before the launch window. A 500ml can is ₹149 at launch (₹99 for the 250ml). The first fifty people to taste it are the Founding Fifty at getsoma.store/beta: free to join, first in line, and ₹119 held against the ₹189 MRP for their first three orders. We announce a date only once we can defend it, so December is a month, not a day.

Even though SOMA is legally non-alcoholic (under 0.5% ABV), it is brewed as a beer and marketed as an adult beverage. We voluntarily restrict browsing and purchase to adults aged 18 and above, which is why you see an age confirmation when you first visit.

SOMA is craft beer. It is made in small batches with more malt and hops per litre, in styles the big producers do not make, such as a hazy IPA and a stout. The difference is like the one between a mass-market lager and a craft beer, with both kept under 0.5% ABV. Our compare page puts them side by side.

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Our 250ml and 500ml cans are aluminium — one of the most recycled materials on earth. Rinse them and drop them in your dry-waste stream and they can be back on a shelf as a new can in about 60 days. No bottle deposits, no storage, no fuss.

No — and two very different drinks are sold in India under the same words. A malt-based soft drink is mixed, not fermented: malt extract, water, carbonation, sweeteners. A non-alcoholic beer worth the name is fermented, with real yeast doing real work. Fermentation is what produces the esters, depth and roundness that make beer taste like beer, which is why a mixed drink cannot imitate it. SOMA is brewed with malted barley, hops, water and yeast, and fermented with a maltose-negative yeast that leaves the alcohol under 0.5% ABV. Three label checks tell you which one you are holding: getsoma.store/blog/brewed-vs-malt-drink-non-alcoholic-beer.

Indian law measures your blood, not your label. Section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 defines the offence as alcohol exceeding 30 mg per 100 ml of blood, detected by breath analyser or laboratory test — the statute says nothing about what the can claims. A drink at under 0.5% ABV carries a very different quantity of alcohol from a regular 5% beer. We set out the arithmetic, the mouth-alcohol and breathalyser caveats, and the sources at getsoma.store/blog/can-you-drive-after-non-alcoholic-beer-india. That page is facts and arithmetic, not legal advice. The statute itself is quoted with its source at getsoma.store/numbers#driving.

A dry day prohibits the sale of alcohol on a given date — it is an instruction from the excise department to licensed shops, bars, hotels and restaurants, not a rule about what is already in your fridge. Roughly two dozen fall each year, and which ones apply depends on your state and the election calendar; Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti are observed nationally. Excise rules are a state subject and individual retailers set their own holiday policies, so we do not make a blanket legality claim — check your state excise department. We map the national dates and the state variation at getsoma.store/blog/dry-days-india-what-to-drink, and the excise position with its source at getsoma.store/numbers#dry-days.

Yes. B2B pricing starts at ₹99 per 500ml can at the entry tier, with volume discounts quoted per venue. Kegs and draft-system setups are available for bars that want SOMA on tap. Email getsoma.store@gmail.com or use the B2B page to set up a tasting in Bangalore.

One of the five SOMA beers contains caffeine: SOMA Caffeinated Stout, sold as Dark Arts Espresso. It is brewed with cold-brew coffee, so the caffeine comes from the coffee itself rather than from an added stimulant. The Lager, the IPA, the Belgian Wit and the regular Dark Arts stout contain none. We have not published a milligram figure yet, because it is measured in the laboratory with the first production batch and we would rather print a number we have measured than an estimate. The measured figure goes on the label and on getsoma.store/nutrition. As a rough guide until then, a coffee stout of this style sits well below a cup of filter coffee and closer to a cola.

Every can carries a date of manufacture and a use-by date, and the exact window is set with the first production batch once stability testing is done. Store cans cool, upright and out of direct sunlight, and chill before drinking. Non-alcoholic beer has less alcohol acting as a preservative than ordinary beer, so it is more sensitive to heat and light and hop aroma fades faster in a warm cupboard than in a fridge. Unopened cans do not need refrigeration to stay safe, but they keep their flavour better cold. Once opened, drink it.

SOMA contains less than 0.5% alcohol by volume. That is trace, not zero, and we will not tell anyone it is zero. Whether a drink at that level is acceptable is a religious judgement that different authorities answer differently, and it is not ours to make for you. What we can do is be exact about the number: it is under 0.5%, every batch is tested before it ships, and the figure is on the can. For scale, a ripe banana and a glass of kombucha both carry trace alcohol of the same order. If your practice requires zero, SOMA is not the right drink.

Yes. Every price on the site and in the shop is the final amount including all taxes, so ₹149 for a 500ml can is ₹149 at checkout with nothing added at the end. A tax invoice is issued for every order. For wholesale orders from venues, a GST invoice against your GSTIN is standard — send it with your order and it goes on the invoice.