Low-alcohol beer

A distilled mixture of restricted-fermentation beer and regular beer in a ratio of 5:95 to 50:50;

• the distilled mixture having an ethanol content of 0-1.0 vol. %, and having:
• a) a total sugar content, defined as the total of glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, and maltotriose, of at least 0.2 g/100 ml;
• and
• b) a total of Strecker aldehydes, defined as the total of 2-methylpropanal, 2-methylbutanal, 3-methylbutanal, 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde, and phenylacetaldehyde, of less than 50 μg/l;
• and/or having
• a) less than 18 μg/1 2-methylpropanal;
• b) less than 3.8 μg/1 2-methylbutanal;
• c) less than 14 μg/1 3-methylbutanal;
• d) less than 10 μg/1 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde;
• e) less than 20 μg/l phenylacetaldehyde, wherein the weight ratio of the total weight of 2-methylpropanal, 2-methylbutanal, 3-methylbutanal, 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde, and phenylacetaldehyde, relative to maltose, is less than 15 μg/g maltose.