Asahi Off is a new category of beer that contains 85% less purine and 70% less carbohydrates. Newly improved in spring 2011, it now delivers more body with the same refreshing aftertaste.^*1 Comparison with Asahi Beer’s happoshu-type “liqueur (sparkling) category 1.”

* What is New genle?

In the Alcohol Tax Law, within "Other Sparkling Alcoholic Beverages," only the following alcoholic beverages that have been produced with hops or bitter ingredientes are the object of a special tax rate:

1) Beverages that have been fermented using sugar, hops, water or soya (2 degrees extract or more)

2) Sparkling alcoholic beverages that contain wheat sprits (extract 2 degrees extract or more)