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Non-Alcoholic Spirits & Mixers

Q: What is a non-alcoholic spirit made from?

Botanicals, in most cases, rather than a distilled spirit with the alcohol taken out. Juniper, citrus peel, bitter roots, spices and peppers are macerated or distilled into a base and blended. A smaller group is made the other way, by distilling to alcohol first and removing it afterward.

Q: Do non-alcoholic spirits taste like the real thing?

They land closer in a cocktail than in a glass on their own. Mixed with tonic, citrus and ice, the gap narrows to very little. Neat, the absence of alcohol shows as a shorter finish and less warmth, which is why most producers build these for mixing.

Q: Can you use them as a one-for-one substitute in a cocktail?

Generally yes, pour for pour, and most are designed that way. Two adjustments help. Cut the dilution slightly, since there is no alcohol to carry it, and taste before adding sweetener, because several of these carry more residual sugar than the spirit they replace.

Q: Why do non-alcoholic spirits cost as much as alcoholic ones?

Because the botanicals and the distillation are the expensive part, and neither goes away. Distilling each ingredient separately, which several producers do, costs more again. What falls away with the alcohol is the excise duty, and that is a smaller share of a bottle's price than most people expect.

Non-alcoholic spirits are mostly built upward rather than stripped down. Where a dealcoholized wine starts as wine, most spirit alternatives start from botanicals macerated or distilled into a base that never held alcohol, which is why they are described as alternatives rather than as gin or whiskey.The difficult part is the bite. Alcohol gives a drink heat and a certain weight on the tongue, and a botanical blend has no direct substitute for either, so producers reach for pepper, ginger, capsicum and bitter roots to stand in. Oil-based extracts hold up over ice where flavored water thins out.Almost everything here is made for mixing rather than for sipping neat, and the mixers and bitters on the same shelf are the other half of the drink.

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Non-Alcoholic Spirits & Mixers

Lyre's Spirit Co Bourbon Alternative (700 mL)

Lyre's Spirit Co Amaretti (700 mL)

Seedlip Drinks Grove 42 (700 mL)

Monday Gin (750 mL)

All The Bitter New Orleans Spiced Cherry (60 mL)

Ritual Zero Proof Aperitif (750 mL)

Curious Elixirs No. 5 Cherry Old Fashioned (340 mL × 6)

Lyre's Spirit Co Espresso Martini Set (2 × 700 mL)

Mahala Botanical Amber (750 mL)

ALMAVE Ámbar (700 mL)

Free Spirits Bourbon (700 mL)

Spiritless Kentucky 74 (750 mL)

All The Bitter Orange Cardamom (60 mL)

Optimist Botanicals Bright (500 mL)

Little Saints Old Fashioned (235 mL × 6)

Lyre's Spirit Co White Cane Spirit (700 mL)

Little Saints St. Oak (750 mL)

Leilo Variety Pack (6 × 355 mL)

Le Petit Beret Natural Botanic (750 mL)

Aplos Aplós Three Bottle Set (3 × 750 mL)

Drink Ghia Berry (500 mL)

Lyre's Spirit Co RTD Combo Pack (10 × 250 mL)

USKO Original (700 mL)

Free Spirits Vermouth Rosso (750 mL)

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