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Yes. SOMA is brewed like any craft beer: water, malted barley, hops, yeast, a real mash, a real boil, a real fermentation. The yeast is the difference. It is a maltose-negative strain that cannot eat the main sugar in wort, so it builds the flavor of a fermented beer and leaves the alcohol under 0.5% ABV. It's beer that went through fermentation, not a malt-flavored soft drink.

With the yeast. A maltose-negative brewer's yeast ferments the simple sugars in the wort but cannot eat maltose, the main one, so it runs out of food before the alcohol ever gets going. Every batch is pasteurized and lab-tested under 0.5% ABV.

Under Indian food standards (FSSAI), yes — SOMA is a non-alcoholic beverage at under 0.5% ABV. For scale, a ripe banana has more alcohol than a can of SOMA. Every batch is lab-tested to verify it.

Everything on sale today is a pre-order. Production starts after December 2026, so nothing ships before then — we email your delivery window before the first batch moves, and you can cancel for a full refund any time before dispatch. Once we are shipping, delivery across Bangalore is a flat ₹29.

Only Dark Arts Espresso, the caffeinated stout — it is brewed with cold-brew coffee, and the caffeine figure per can will be printed on its label. Every other SOMA, the regular Dark Arts included, is caffeine-free.

SOMA is a beer in every sense but the alcohol, and we market it the way beer should be marketed: to adults, full stop.