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Is 'alcohol-free' the best name for this category?

Can we think of a better, cooler, more fun descriptor for the range of AF products on offer today ...

Why UK shift on 'alcohol-free' could help everyone

What exactly is alcohol-free? It might sound like a trick question, in fact it’s anything bu...

Can Wilderton tasting room success be a template for others?

Aside from the obvious issue of ABV, one of the biggest differences between alcoholic and non-alco...

Zero Proof Nation creates world’s first alcohol-free map

With Covid under control and travel back on the agenda, the world’s explorers are stretching...

Gen Z ensuring that alc-free drinks ‘are here to stay’

Generation Z’s openness to new products and diminishing interest in alcohol will drive growt...

A Beginner's Guide to... Functionals

  Functionals are one of the most intriguing and fastest-growing elements of the alcohol-fre...

Dry drinking is about more than January

The two most common methods of January self-improvement - exercising and giving up alcohol - have ...

Axes optional - the UK's biggest AF beer bar

The UK’s biggest alcohol-free beer bar is not in a chi-chi five-star hotel, or an achingly h...

Great festive cocktails from AF bar-guru Derek Brown

If you want advice on how to make great alcohol-free cocktails, there’s no better person to ...

How to create a world-beating drink (by someone who has)

David Gluckman is the man behind some of the most famous drinks in the world. You may well not rec...

Fiona Hepher: What's Hot Right Now

In the second of our Hot Right Now trendwatch articles, we head to Canada’s west coast to ca...

'Terroir in de-alc wine? We'll get there...'

Jeremias Loock is, by his own admission, a little tired. Partly this is because he is in the middl...

We're better off with Better Without

One of the frustrations of alcohol-free drinks is knowing where to find them. Or at least, where t...

Bringing the Dreams to New Orleans

Inspiration can be a hard thing to pin down. But David Wallace, founder of Dream House Lounge in N...

'People want something unique that will delight them...'

Yasmin Spark’s laugh should be available on prescription. A cross between a tinkle and a gur...

Non-alc wine – big challenges… bigger opportunities

  Alcohol-free wine has been around a long time. The first de-alcoholisation plant was built...

Le Paon Qui Boit – France’s alcohol-free pioneers 

  There’s no shortage of things to do in Paris. But now, alongside the Eiffel Tower, t...

So Hot Right Now

One of the most exciting elements of running a competition like the World Alcohol-Free Awards is s...

Chapman – a non-alc cocktail with a great back-story

  There’s no question that the energy of the alcohol-free world is very much part of i...

The rise of Mindful – why zero-alc consumers think differently

  Alcohol-free products are being integrated into an increasingly varied and sophisticated d...

Virgin Mary bar expands from Dublin to Abu Dhabi

  Dublin would probably not be top of most people’s list as a location for their first...

No/Lo is fastest growing area of drinks world

  No- and Low-Alcohol products are the hottest area of the drinks world, according to the la...

Club Soda – the UK’s first low- and no-alcohol store

It might be behind France, Germany and the US, but the UK is finally to get its first permanent lo...

Five minutes with… Jason-Candid Knüsel, director of Healthy Hospo

When it comes to booze, less is better. And no-one knows this better than the team at Healthy Hosp...