Quick answer for the people who searched this mid-scroll: a well-made non-alcoholic beer runs roughly 60–100 kcal per 500ml can. SOMA's four beers land at 63 (Lager), 77 (Belgian Wit), 92 (IPA), and 99 (Stout). A regular 5% lager of the same size is typically 200–230 kcal. Now the longer answer, because the *why* is genuinely interesting.
**Where beer calories come from.** A beer has two meaningful calorie sources: alcohol and carbohydrates. Alcohol is the dense one — 7 kcal per gram, nearly double what carbs deliver (4 kcal/g). In a regular lager, alcohol alone contributes well over half the calories. Which means the single most caloric ingredient in your beer is the one SOMA removes. Take the alcohol out of a fully brewed beer and you delete most of its calorie load in one move — no sweeteners, no "lite" recipe tricks, just subtraction.
**The SOMA numbers, style by style.** Sundowner (crisp lager): 63 kcal, 11g carbs. Sunday Wit (Belgian wit): 77 kcal, 14g. Juice Riot (hazy IPA): 92 kcal, 17g — the oats and wheat that build its soft body are carbs, and worth every one. Dark Arts (stout): 99 kcal, 20g — the darkest, richest beer we make is still lighter than half a regular lager. All numbers per full 500ml can, all from the same lab work that verifies every batch under 0.5% ABV.
**Context, because a number without context is a vibe.** That 500ml Sundowner at 63 kcal sits below a 300ml cola (roughly 120–140 kcal — and note the smaller serving), below a typical 200ml glass of fruit juice (~90–100 kcal), around the range of many kombuchas, and at less than a third of a regular strong lager. Two full SOMA cans over an evening add up to about one banana's worth more than one can. We are legally obliged by our own personality to mention the banana.
**Why NA beer is not zero-calorie — and should not be.** The remaining calories are the beer: malt carbs, body, the stuff flavor is made of. A hypothetical zero-calorie "beer" would be hop-flavored sparkling water — a fine product, a different product. If you see an NA beer claiming meaningfully MORE than ~100 kcal per 500ml, read the label; that is usually added sugar doing the heavy lifting, which is a soft drink wearing a beer costume.
**The honest framing (what this is not).** This is not a weight-loss pitch, and beer — ours included — is not a health food. Calories are one fact about a drink, not a moral score. The honest claim is narrower and better: if you want the ritual, the flavor, and the pairing power of a real craft beer at a fraction of the caloric load and none of the hangover, that trade now exists and it is stocked in Bangalore.
**Cheat sheet, for the road.** NA beer ≈ 60–100 kcal per 500ml. Regular lager ≈ 200–230. The gap is mostly the alcohol itself. Fully brewed + dealcoholized = flavor kept, calories dropped. And the only zero we print anywhere is the hangover.
All four beers: ₹199 per 500ml can, under 0.5% ABV, full nutrition on every label and at getsoma.store/nutrition. Delivered in Bangalore.