O’Douls “non-alcoholic” Controversy

I won’t post the whole article, but I just saw a report on Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard allowing their 5 and 7 year old daughters to drink O’Douls. If you don’t know what O’Douls is, it is considered a non-alcoholic beverage. It has the same bubbly feel and similar taste as a beer, but isn’t considered an actual beer because it only contains 0.5% alcohol content. (Though Kristen Bell claims its 0.4%) The legal limit for a drink to be considered alcoholic is above 0.5% ABV. Dax Shepard has been sober for 15 years, but regularly drinks O’Douls with his family. In Kristen’s words, “it’s like juice”, but it goes through the exact same process as normal beer does, just with a lower ABV.

Would you give your children, who are minors, this “non-alcoholic” beverage? Do you think a previous alcoholic should be drinking it as well, considering it still has an alcohol content just at the threshold of the legal limit? Or do you think doing so would be “playing with fire”, so to speak?