My doctor has put me on a yeast-free diet. I want to know if there are
any readily available beers with very little or no yeast sediment left
in them. Some figures to compare would be great. I am in the UK so
American-only brands are not helpful!

Hello, floorten:

This is a really hard question, I have been looking for yeast free/low
level beer and I couldn't find any except this:

Sapporo Beer
http://hero.com/sapporo/home.html

This beer uses a ceramic filtration system to reduce the quantity of
yeast sediment in beer, look at its technology page:

Sapporo Beer Technology
http://hero.com/sapporo/techno.html

But the worst part is I think this beer is not exported to the UK. You
can try to contact with them to ask if there's any distributor on UK.

I hope this solves your question, I couldn't find a beer that met your
requeriments, if another researcher finds one, please, refuse the
payment.

Regards.

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Clarification of Answer by joseleon-ga on 27 May 2002 07:07 PDT

Hi again: 
 
I forgot to post the link to the Sapporo USA to contact with them, here it is: 
 
Sapporo USA 
&lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://www.sapporousa.com">http://www.sapporousa.com</a>&quot;&gt;<a href="http://www.sapporousa.com">http://www.sapporousa.com</a>&lt;/a&gt; 
 
Contact Us Form 
&lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://www.sapporousa.com/about/contact_us.html">http://www.sapporousa.com/about/contact_us.html</a>&quot;&gt;<a href="http://www.sapporousa.com/about/contact_us.html">http://www.sapporousa.com/about/contact_us.html</a>&lt;/a&gt; 
 
Regards.  

Commenters gave more complete answer than researcher, and researcher
said to not accept the answer if this was so.

Sapporo link was interesting, but the commentors found more than the researcher!
Thanks to everyone, anyway!

Hello,

I was going to answer this, but was pipped to the post, so will
confine myself to comments rather than searching for detailed
references.  First of all you need to be aware that consumption of
beer and wine is considered to be one of the major "no-nos" in a
yeast-free diet.  However, if you do choose to drink some beer, what
you must absolutely avoid is all cask "real ale" and
bottle-conditioned beers, because these will contain live yeast. 
Beers whose selling points include words such as "clear", "sparkling"
and "smooth" are probably your best bets, because they will have been
filtered to remove as many yeast cells as possible and pasteurised to
kill those that are left.  Cobra lager is double-filtered, so will
probably contain less residual yeast than many others.  German wheat
beers with the word "kristall" in their description will also be well
filtered, as will most lagers.  The Belgian Rodenbach beer, now brewed
by Palm and probably obtainable from specialist suppliers such as Beer
Ritz, is claimed to be filtered to eliminate all yeast.  Of course,
filtration will not guarantee the complete removal of microscope
fragments of the cell wall and of the cytoplasmic contents of the
yeast cells.

Hello,

From these two links,http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/9/
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/11/ ,you can fand lots of beers
without yeast.But the problem is they are made in America ,not
necssarily sold in UK.
I suggest you should go to the beer forums of Uk and ask them. The
will know more than the people here. From the following link, you can
find all the beer forums that are hosted in UK
://www.google.com/search?q=%22Beer+Forum%22&hl=zh-TW&lr=&cr=countryUK|countryGB&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&c2coff=1&filter=0

I wish it might help you stick to the irreplaceable joy of beer.
Best regards,
Joe