Beeps Review: Three Taverns Brewery’s American Lager at 3.5% ABV

This one showed up in a mixed pack from a trip through Decatur, and it earned a permanent spot on the shopping list after the first can. At 3.5% ABV, Three Taverns Brewery’s Beeps is one of a growing number of low-ABV and non-alcoholic beers that ordinary breweries are now keeping on their regular lineup, not just rolling out as a one-off. I went digging into that shift across more than 22,000 beers I tracked down (full breakdown here), and Three Taverns Brewery was one of the names that stood out.

At a Glance

What it actually tastes like

Beeps is clean, crisp and genuinely low in alcohol, built in the best American lager tradition rather than trying to be a craft statement piece. At 3.5% ABV, it is built to be sessionable first, which is exactly the point, this is not a beer trying to disguise how light it is.

It works well with a cookout, a ballgame, or anything where you want a beer that gets out of the way.

Why this matters more than it looks like

Three Taverns is known for hoppy year-round releases, so keeping an easy-drinking American lager on the core lineup is a real bet on session-strength demand, not a one-off. That is the real story behind Beeps, not that it exists, but that a brewery built on stronger, bigger beers is treating a 3.5% release as a permanent part of the lineup rather than a seasonal experiment.

Across the data I pulled, this pattern kept showing up. Roughly 93 percent of the low-ABV and non-alcoholic beers I found in that research came from breweries whose main business is not non-alcoholic drinks, not from dedicated NA specialists like Athletic Brewing. Three Taverns Brewery is one of the clearer examples of that shift, an established name in GA keeping a 3.5% beer in year-round rotation next to its bigger, stronger releases.

How it compares to the rest of the category

I’d put Beeps at 3.56 out of 5, which puts it solidly in the middle of the pack for american lager releases I looked at releases I’ve tried. It is not trying to be the most complex beer on the shelf, and it does not need to be. The goal with a release like this is consistency at a lower strength, and on that measure it delivers exactly what it promises every time.

My verdict

If you already know Three Taverns Brewery for their bigger, hoppier or stronger releases, Beeps is worth a detour the next time you are near Decatur, GA. It is not trying to compete with those beers on intensity, it is solving a different problem: something you can drink through a whole afternoon without slowing down. That is a harder needle to thread than it sounds, plenty of light beers taste like nothing at all, and this one does not.

The bigger picture is what makes Beeps worth writing about at all. A brewery does not keep a 3.5% beer on its core, year-round lineup unless customers are actually asking for it and coming back. That is a real signal about where drinking habits are heading, not a marketing angle dreamed up in a boardroom.

Cannot find it near you? Try these instead

Beeps has limited distribution outside its home region. If you cannot track it down, these are real, currently available beers in a similar style worth trying:

FAQs

Where is Three Taverns Brewery’s Beeps brewed?

Beeps is brewed by Three Taverns Brewery in Decatur, GA.

What is the ABV of Beeps?

Beeps is 3.5% ABV, classified as american lager.

Is Beeps available nationwide?

No. Like most regional craft releases, Beeps has limited distribution outside GA and nearby states. Check Three Taverns Brewery’s own site or a beer-finder app before making a special trip.