The Dry Pour
What is in these drinks, how they are made, and how to choose. Written by people who buy the catalog and taste most of it.
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The Dry Pour · a note from the desk
The Dry Pour is beClink's publication. Where a producer states a figure — ABV, sugar, calories — we publish it as stated rather than rounding it, because 0.0% and 0.5% are different drinks. Where the evidence behind a claim is thin, we say that instead of repeating it.
Six sections, each one because a question kept arriving that a product page could not answer.
The Basics is where most people start: what the words on a label actually mean, and which of the differences change what is in the glass. Recipes & Mocktails is for making things, organized by what you are reaching for. Wine is the deepest shelf we carry and the one that rewards the most explaining. Spirits, Beer & Brands is about who makes what, and what they are trying to do. Health & Functional covers what is in a bottle beyond the flavor. Not Drinking is here because drinking less is a subject people tend to write around rather than about.
Pick whichever is closest to the question you arrived with.
— The Dry Pour
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The Basics
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Wine
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Recipes & Mocktails
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Spirits, Beer & Brands
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Health & Functional
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Make something
All recipes →Every drink here is grouped by what it starts from — a bottle in most cases, and in one case nothing but your kitchen.
Shirley TempleFrom Scratch
10 recipes
Non-Alcoholic Hot ToddyWhiskey & Bourbon
8 recipes
Non-Alcoholic French 75Gin & Botanical
7 recipes
Non-Alcoholic Aperol Spritz, Three WaysAperitivo & Spritz
6 recipes
Smoky Mezcal Margarita MocktailMargarita & Tequila
6 recipes
Non-Alcoholic SangriaWine & Sparkling
6 recipes
Non-Alcoholic MojitoRum & Tropical
3 recipes
Non-Alcoholic Bloody MaryVodka
3 recipes300 points and 15% off your first order
Then a point for every dollar you spend, 100 the first time you review a bottle, and 100 on your birthday. 300 points is $5 off.
Dispatch — what is happening in the category
Brands
All 74 →Who writes this, and how
The Dry Pour is written by the people who run the shop. We buy everything we sell and taste most of it. Where we have not tasted something, we say so and describe it from the label and the producer rather than pretending otherwise.
We publish ABV, calories and sugar on every product we list, and we print what the producer states rather than a tidied-up version of it — which is why you will see both 0.0% and 0% on this site, because they are not the same claim.
What suits you depends on what you like drinking. Our job is to give you enough to decide. More about us.