Keeping your gut healthy matters for the entire body. This often-underrated organ is central to nutrient absorption, metabolism and immune defense, and even to mental well-being: it is responsible for producing most of the body’s serotonin, popularly known as the italic“feel-good hormone”/italic.

The good news, it turns out, is that beer may now lend a hand. It sounds improbable, but a Spanish brewery based in Zaragoza, the well-known Ambar, has just launched Ambar Triple Zero Probiotic, a drink with 0.0% alcohol, 0% sugar and one billion active probiotics.

How Ambar Triple Zero Probiotic is made

The main challenge facing Ambar’s brewmasters was preserving the flavor, body and aroma typical of beer while creating a healthy drink with no alcohol and no sugar.

The starting point was the production process behind Ambar Triple Zero Tostada, based on a full fermentation in which all the sugars in the wort are converted into alcohol. That alcohol is then stripped out using a high-vacuum, low-temperature system that preserves the beer’s organoleptic (sensory) characteristics.

To this base, free of both alcohol and residual sugar, the brewery added probiotics from the Bacillus subtilis HU58® strain, developed by Novonesis, a European biotechnology multinational.

What makes the strain distinctive is that it is incorporated into the beer as spores, a structure that lets it survive the passage through the stomach. The absence of sugar helps too: it keeps the probiotics stable so they reach the intestinal cells intact.

How drinking habits have changed

In Italy, according to one of the latest studies by AssoBirra (the Italian brewers’ association), consumption of non-alcoholic beer grew by more than 13% between 2023 and 2024, climbing past 2.11% of total national beer consumption. That growth has continued in the years since, driven by a shift in attitude among Millennials and Gen Z, who are increasingly focused on the sensory experience and less interested in alcohol’s intoxicating effects.

Those figures are still far from Spain’s, where the non-alcoholic segment has reached 14% of beer consumption, but they are a meaningful signal of a growing awareness that having fun does not require giving up socializing, mobility or, above all, health.

Ambar has played a key role in that shift, and not only with the new Triple Zero Probiotic. The Zaragoza brewery was a pioneer in the category: in 1976 it launched the first non-alcoholic beer ever produced in Spain. In 2011 it introduced a gluten-free version, and 2022 was the year of Triple Zero, a drink with 0% sugar and 0.0% alcohol.

Editor’s note

This article was originally published in Italian on money.it by Andrea Fabbri on May 24, 2026 as «La birra diventa “sana”. Arriva la prima probiotica al mondo, analcolica e senza zucchero». It has been translated and adapted for an international audience by the Money.it International desk.