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Field notes.
We taste everything before it gets a shelf, and roughly a third of it never does. These are the results — plus a running list of where to drink well around the Metroplex.
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Reviews, guides
and arguments.
The Sober Boom Is Not New Demand. It Is New Technology.
Non-alcoholic beer sat at 0.3 percent of US beer sales for decades, and the standard story says a wellness wave finally changed that. Bac...
brewing technology · 4 min read
Your “Heart-Healthy” Glass of Red Was an Ad.
The belief that red wine protects your heart feels like ancient folk wisdom. It has an air date: November 17, 1991, a Sunday night on CBS...
French Paradox · 5 min read
It Was Never the Cancer Study. It Was the Tuesday Hangover.
The official story says Americans are drinking less because the cancer warnings finally landed. The timeline says otherwise. The behavior...
hangxiety · 6 min readThe DFW list
Where to drink this,
if not at home.
Every bar, restaurant and shop across the Metroplex with a real non-alcoholic program. If your bar belongs on it, tell us — we'll come drink there first.
Explainer
0.0% or under 0.5%?
They're different.
A zero-proof spirit is built from botanicals and never contained alcohol. A dealcoholised wine was wine, and had the alcohol taken out — which usually leaves a trace under 0.5%.
For most people the distinction is academic. If you're pregnant, in recovery, or on a medication that rules it out, it isn't. So we print the number on every product and let you filter the shop by it.