Heineken Silver Beer Lager 12x330ml Bottles

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The company believes it can build on that momentum with the large scale US launch of Heineken Silver this year - championing it as the perfect drink for consumers looking for a refreshing beer for sessionable occasions.

Consumers will be able to get their hands on the real Heineken® Silver throughout Europe from 7 th April 2022. With a crisp flavour and a subtle finish, Heineken®Silver has a lighter drinking profile that's designed for modern taste preferences. Crafted using the same star-quality natural ingredients as Heineken®Original, it's a crystal-clear, all-round crowd pleaser that is extra fresh – for real. Alexander Wilson, category & commercial strategy director – off trade at Heineken UK, said: “Our research shows growing popularity for premium and lighter style drinks, particularly among Gen Y and Gen Z drinkers who are looking for better quality beverages while also moderating their alcohol intake. As lager under-indexes with Gen Y and Gen Z drinkers, the opportunity is to add lager to their shopping baskets. Heineken Silver offers these drinkers a more inclusive and accessible taste that also meets their needs for a more refreshing lager, opening up new opportunities to drive incremental sales for retailers.” Its launch comes in light of waning interest in lager from younger generations. According to Heineken, although the lager category has grown by 34% since 2019, sales among Gen Z and Gen Y drinkers have declined by 2%, while penetration among 18-to-24-year-olds has halved over the last seven years. We are tapping into a new market of consumers with Heineken Silver. The product aims to appeal to a broader range of consumer tastes, specifically the experience-seeking consumer. It's a great product to complement an experience seeker's time with friends and family, like at the beach, music festival or more.” With its 4% alcohol by volume (ABV), Heineken Silver is crafted with malted barley, water, and a ‘small but significant extra ingredient’, Heineken's signature A Yeast.

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Heineken 0.0 continues to grow and already represents around 7% of the franchise in the US,” he notes. Heineken Silver is rolling out nationally this spring in 12-oz slim cans, 12-oz bottles, and 24-oz cans. It will be available where other Heineken products are sold at both on-premise and off-premise retail channels across the country.

The Heineken brand – which for a long time was focused solely on its flagship namesake 5.4% beer – expanded with alcohol-free Heineken 0.0 in 2019 and now has launched the lower-alcohol (4% ABV) Heineken Silver in the US. Heineken Silver has 3.2g of carbs, 95 calories and 4% ABV in a 12-oz serving. That compares to flagship Heineken, which has 11g of carbs, around 149 calories and 5.4% ABV in a 12-oz serving. Heineken 0.0, meanwhile, has 0% alcohol, 69 calories and 16g of carbs. A combination of wider consumer interest in the light lager category, alongside a demand for premium, is providing outlets with the opportunity to bolster both value and volume sales. Heineken Silver®, the recently launched premium light lager, taps not only into the increasing appetite for lighter tasting lagers, but also speaks to the consumer need for brands that are more premium; a vital trend for operators to capitalise on to grow revenue.Making the event even more exciting was the addition of For Real Tokens (FRTs), collectible art pieces created in partnership with prominent visual artist from Spain, J. Demsky. These FRTs are Heineken®'s sarcastic play on the NFT culture blending the physical and digital worlds to gift people with a limited-edition artwork, to remind them that some moments are best experienced in the real world. That, the company believes, will be a winning formula: “Heineken Silver's taste profile and its premium, uncompromising quality the Heineken brand is known for, gives the new product an edge over competitors.” Lower ABV, lower carbs, lower calories