near beer

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A malt liquor that does not contain enough alcohol to be considered an alcoholic beverage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• Any of various malt liquors (see Citation below).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun drink that resembles beer but with less than 1/2 percent alcohol