--- title: Now You Can Buy Your Dog a Craft Beer (Soft Of) description: Now you can crack open a cold one with your real best friend authors: - name: Denver Nicks url: https://money.com/author/denver-nicks/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 60 covers: - Pets - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://x.com/DenverNicks - https://plus.google.com/105122198911201917932 former_staff: true published: '2016-05-27T17:32:24.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T02:06:21.000Z' section: Pets tags: - Beer - bowser beer - Craft Beer - Dog beer - Dogs - Pets - pubdesk - snuffle word_count: 328 canonical: https://money.com/craft-beer-for-dogs/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Dog drinking beer](https://img.money.com/2016/05/gettyimages-499808019.jpg) You can buy your dog a stroller, a gourmet [meal](http://business.time.com/2012/08/14/9-products-enjoying-a-curious-surge-in-sales/slide/fine-dining-for-pets/), a spa treatment while jet-setting at the [airport](https://money.com/jfk-airport-pet-terminal-dogs/) and even an [annuity](https://money.com/pets-dogs-cats-spending/) to protect your pup in case you pass away. Now you can add something else to that list: a beer. A number of breweries have started making and selling “beer” especially brewed for dogs — “beer” is offset in quotation marks because it's hard to say if what they’re making is actually beer. These non-alcoholic brews aren't fermented (even non-alcoholic human beer is fermented) and are comprised of sundry ingredients, like, in the case of [Bottom Sniffer](http://www.bottomsniffer.com/the-brew.html) — perhaps the newest arrival to the dog beer scene — non-fermented beer wort, seaweed extract, natural chicken flavoring and some other stuff. Other brands of craft beer brews for dogs include [Bowser Beer](http://bowserbeer.com/health-bone-e-fits/) and [Dawg Grog](http://dawggrog.com/) in the U.S., and [Snuffle](http://snuffle-dogbeer.com/) in the UK. What dog beers tend to have in common is the presence of some kind of brewing grain (often barley), plus vegetables and often meat or meat broth of some kind, and, crucially, an absence of alcohol. If you want to kick it with your dog over a cold one, keep the beer to yourself. Plenty of people have laughed seeing a dog lap up beer but the truth is that alcohol in any form can be quite toxic to dogs, whose small livers did not evolve to process alcohol. Dogs are also much smaller than humans and just a little bit of alcohol can poison them even worse than you poisoned yourself that time you thought a line of tequila shots was a good idea. (Thankfully, even if Fido does get into the alcoholized variety of beer, most [pet insurance providers](https://money.com/best-pet-insurance/) do cover toxic ingestion.) Rather than give your dog a beer, buy Spot a doggy beer. 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