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Creating an Alcohol-Free Bar Menu

Gone are the days when juice and sparkling water made for an acceptable non-alc menu.

Your guests expect interesting alcohol-free options when they go out, and they're willing to pay for them.

Adding a non-alc menu gives sober customers the options they want at equal price points to your existing cocktails, wines, and beers. It's a win win.

We have everything you need to build a non-alc menu that's just as interesting and diverse as your current bar menu:

  • Wine

    De-alcoholized reds, whites, rosés, and sparklings made with traditional wine-making methods.

  • Wine Alternatives

    Unique blends and teas, juices, and extracts built from scratch to evoke the experience of wine.

  • Beer

    Refreshing alcohol-free beer from both new craft brewers and familiar favourites.

  • Mimic Spirits

    Non-alcoholic spirits designed to mimic classic spirits, liqueurs, and aperitifs.

  • Unique Spirits

    Alcohol-free spirits that deliver flavour and complexity with no alcoholic equivalent.

  • Ready to Drink

    Premade canned and bottled cocktails perfect for quick service and takeout.

  • Functional

    Made with functional ingredients - perfect for spas and gyms, and wellness environments.

  • Perfect Alcohol Free Bar Companion to enhance any drink

    Bitters

    Must-have bar staples made entirely without alcohol.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do non-alc products cost as much as alcoholic ones?

Three main reasons:

  1. Expensive equipment, technology, additional time and labour are all factors that make the production cost of non-alcoholic wine more than that of traditional alcoholic wine.
  2. The market is much smaller than that of alcoholic wines, so batch sizes are often done on a smaller scale.
  3. Additionally, because of the low ABV additional quality control and processing steps must be taken to ensure the product is stable and safe to drink anytime.

How should i price non-alc cocktails, wines, and beers?

Your alcohol-free offerings should generally be priced in line with your alcoholic drinks. Regardless of whether or not the end product contains alcohol, making a good wine, beer, or spirit requires care, creativity, innovation, and precision.

It's important to remember: the value of a beverage isn't in its alcohol content, but in the flavours, complexity, and experience of drinking it.

What's the difference between de-alcoholized wine, non-alcoholic wine, and wine alternatives?

De-alcoholized wine starts out as regular wine, and then has its alcohol content removed.

Non-alcoholic wine typically contains no alcohol to begin with. The fermentation process is stopped before the sugar is converted into alcohol. 

Wine alternatives (a.k.a. Wine “proxies”) are not wines at all, but rather a blend of things like teas, juices, vinegars, and various extracts and natural flavours.

Are non-alc spirits distilled?

Sometimes, yes.

Some non-alc spirits are made using traditional methods, including distillation, and then have the alcohol removed, resulting in an ABV of 0.5% or less.

True zero-proof (0.0%ABV) spirits are made by combining flavours and botanicals to recreate the essence of the spirit. These spirits contain no trace of alcohol and are not an alcohol-removed spirit.