Over the last year, off-premise sales reached $3.1 billion across low-alcoholic and non-alcoholic ... [+] GETTY

The No-Alcohol Industry Boomed Over the Pandemic. Where’s It Going Next?

Forbes.com:  Kate Dingwall Contributor. Oct 29, 2021

Scrap what you heard about people drinking more during the pandemic. Left confined to home, many alcohol drinkers started cutting the booze, reaching instead for a dram from the ever-growing no-alcohol category.

NielsenIQ’s SVP of Account Development Kim Cox finds demand for no- and...

Cool girls don't drink alcohol anymore

Article by BusinessInsider.co.za: Allana Akhtar, Business Insider US, Nov 08, 2021

• Young women are using Instagram to show others you can be both "cool" and sober.
• Retired Party Girl and No Booze Babes are online communities for those rethinking their relationship to alcohol.
• Alcohol alternative drink sales rose this year, on the heels of the "trendy" sober curious movement.
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Shea Gomez is a cool girl.

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Article by MENSHEALTH.COM: Taylyn Washington-Harmon. Aug 19, 2021.

A new study finds some potential benefits of knocking back an ice-cold, low-ABV brew after endurance sports.

Had an awesome workout? Your team won (or maybe lost) their LAX game? Go ahead, have a beer or two. Science is totally cool with it. A systematic review on beer consumption related to endurance sports was published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism this July. Among the findings: Light beer could be a decent recovery aid post-exercise, even as good as water in some aspects.

Based on the...

LOW-ALCOHOL, DE-ALCOHOLISED, ALCOHOL-FREE & NON-ALCOHOL WINE EXPLAINED.

Article courtesy of Spier Wines.

Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by the alcoholic fermentation of the juice of fresh grapes, with an alcohol content of 6,5 to 22,0% alcohol by volume.

LOW ALCOHOL WINE

The alcohol content of this category of wines is more than 0.5 % but less than 4.5 %. It starts as a normal wine that undergoes fermentation and then alcohol is removed through the processes of reverse osmosis, Spinning Cone technology and/or vacuum distillation. No addition of exogenous...

SEEDS SOWN

Over 300 years ago, it was common for physicians to distill herbal remedies using copper stills, harnessing the power of nature & alchemy to solve medical maladies. In 1651, one such physician, John French, published The Art of Distillation, documenting these non-alcoholic recipes. At that same time, a family in Lincolnshire had started farming, hand-sowing seeds using baskets called ‘seedlips’.

Centuries later, Ben Branson stumbled upon John French’s recipes. Ever the tinkerer, he was inspired to purchase a small copper...