Mixers/Non-Alcoholic
By definition, a cocktail is a mixed drink, and while there are plenty of cocktails composed entirely from alcoholic beverages, many of the best involve a mixer — a nonalcoholic juice, syrup, carbonated drink, or some other addition. A mixer’s job may be to twist the flavor of the cocktail in a different direction or to reduce the overall amount of alcohol in the cocktail — or both. While many mixers (like lime juice or simple syrup) can be easily made at home, there’s a cottage industry dedicated to ready-to-use mixers, ranging from artisan ginger ale to exotic, spiced syrups.
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Vintage-dated, estate-grown wine? Sure. Vintage-dated, estate-grown, non-alcoholic wine? That’s a rarity. Bouchaine‘s new rose is made from 100% pinot noir grown at its own vineyards. Let’s dig in. The wine is refreshing and gently fruity, though slightly gummy with overtones of pastry dough and eventually notes of nutmeg. The chewiness helps to evoke a bolder…
Nooh is a new wine brand from the Provence winery Château La Coste, all non-alcoholic — or sans alcool, in the French style. Three wines are on offer: a sparkling rose, a sparkling white, and a still rose. We have a little bit of information about the way these wines are produced: After years of…
Today we’re looking at two new releases from WhistlePig, and they couldn’t be more different. One is another oddball experiment from the Vermont operation — bourbon aged in barrels with two different types of Vermont maple serving as barrel heads, and the other a non-alcoholic offering made in collaboration with… Alice Cooper, who it turns…
UK-based Mash Gang got started during Covid and has expanded rapidly, now producing products in the U.S. Their offerings span a ton of standard beer styles (over 200 have been produced), and lately the operation has delved into non-alcoholic offerings, of which four are now available. We tasted the full set — from 16 oz…
We’re headed back to the well — the dry well, ahem — with a fresh look at three new offerings from Lyre’s, which is arguably the leader in non-alcoholic spirits. Two are full-bottle spirit surrogates, while the third is in a category of its own. Read on for the details. Lyre’s White Cane Spirit Review So……
Wisconsin’s Untitled Art produces a dazzling array of non-alcoholic beers — more than 25 by my last count — and probably more every day. The samples we received — 8 in total – bore the N0N Alcoholic label, but that appears to have recently been switched to a new brand called FLVR!, presumably to distinguish…
Libby is a new duo of non-alcoholic sparkling wines, available in white and rose expressions, both with zero added sugar. Both are made from dealcoholized wine (either white or rose), wine grape concentrate, and natural flavors and are lightly carbonated. Special props for the swing-top stoppers on the bottles, making for easy resealability should you…
Philters is a new brand of NA spirits — full, 750ml bottles — launched by Maya Tea, known for its functional beverages. The four faux spirits of Philters include a non-alc version of gin, rum, whiskey, and mezcal — all created with additional adaptogens and nootropics such as L-Theanine and Cognizin Citicoline. Additional ingredients include glycerin,…
It’s always nice to see vintage-dated non-alcoholic wines — just like with standard wines, it tends to be a badge of quality in the NA space. Society De La Rassi is made from 100% chardonnay grapes grown in La Mancha, Alcázar de San Juan, Spain, after which the vinified wine is vacuum distilled to remove…
Imagine a fruit-heavy, lightly sour beer, lightened up to be a bit even less funky and fully stripped of alcohol, and you’ve got the basics of General Admission, a new non-alcoholic fruit brew that is a bit like a fruity seltzer water with just a little more oomph to it. Available in four flavors, General…