Non-alcoholic Malt-Nutrine

During Prohibition, brewers like Anheuser-Busch turned to non-alcoholic products to stay in business.

The company was already producing Malt-Nutrine, a nutritive drink marketed for "new mothers, convalescents, sickly children, and the anemic and aged" that contained no more than 1.9% alcohol. Even that percentage was too great under Prohibition and the company reduced the formula to less than 1/2 of one percent. Anheuser-Busch marketed Malt-Nutrine throughout Prohibition, discontinuing it in 1942.