The Non Alcoholic Beer Market
Momentum Brewery is based in New York and brews Momentum Kolsch. The non alcoholic beer market has grown rapidly in recent years with the introduction of non alcoholic beers that taste more like regular beer. Non alcoholic beers have several health advantages over regular beers, including fewer calories, sugar, carbs and of course, alcohol. Non alcoholic means less than 0.5% alcohol, so non alcoholic beers can still have traces of alcohol.
Athletic Brewing is the current market leader in non alcoholic beers with an approximate 19% market share. More and more startup non alcoholic breweries like Momentum are entering the market. Not a day goes by without some news story about the rise of non alcoholic beer and societal trends towards reducing alcohol intake.
Momentum Brewery
Momentum Brewery introduced their non alcoholic beers in December 2023. The brewery says “We utilize an innovative brewing process that respects the craft of brewing and preserves the rich, complex flavors and characteristics that make craft beer so appealing. Unlike other breweries, we purposefully avoid using large, expensive dealcoholization machines that cause unnecessary water and energy waste while leaving behind a significant carbon footprint.” Momentum carries four non alcoholic beers, a Black IPA, a Hazy IPA, Golden and Kolsch.

Momentum Brewery Kolsch
Momentum provides little information about Kolsch other than it has Mosaic, Simco and Amarillo hops. Kolsch has 60 or 71 calories (depending upon the source) and possibly 12g carbs. There is no IBU or other information. It has no rating on Beer Advocate and 3.38 out of 5 on Untappd.
Our Review of Momentum Brewery Kolsch

If you read our post about ProofNoMore, I bought 35 single non alcoholic beers to try. I have had about 30 to date. If you add in some others I purchased elsewhere, I have now tried over 40 NA beers. Some have been very good and satisfied my desire to find drinks that taste like beer with little or no alcohol and reduced calories. However, many have not been good. A lot of those have had calorie and carb numbers close to a regular beer. Several of the ones I have tried recently have been weak, and I have found myself more and more craving regular old beers with alcohol.
The Tasting
I was not excited about trying Momentum Kolsch. Their IPA was better than expected and their Golden was good until I got to the bottom of can, which left a very bad aftertaste. This time I poured the beer into a glass and it was very good for a while, light and drinkable. If I was blindfolded, I could have been fooled into thinking it was a real lighter beer. Like Momentum Golden, I considered rating it 4 out of 5.
Then I finished it with dinner (not reflected in the video). Again it had a strange taste as I got to the bottom of the glass (can’t blame it on the can this time) and it was not good with my barbecue chicken. The aftertaste was not as bad as the Golden, but not good anyway. I am done with trying NA beers from Momentum Brewery.

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For better recommendations, try Athletic Brewing Cerveza Atletica, Best Day Brewing Kolsch, Athletic Brewing Lite, Partake Brewing Blonde, Partake Brewing Pale and FMB 101 Blonde.
For non alcoholic beer nutritional information for all NA beers we have reviewed and more, see NA Beer Nutritional Information.