Dry Drinks: Our Fav Non-Alco Beverages

If you’re kicking booze this month, look to support these SA-made non-alc favourites.

Polka

Pretty pink and punchy in flavour, POLKA’s cult Non-Alc Botanical Spirit stands up to its boozy counterparts. What it lacks in alcohol, it makes up for in taste, with botanical infusions of pink grapefruit, pepper berry and juniper replicating the taste you’d expect from a boutique gin. The SA-made brand suggests serving a nip of this over lots of ice, paired with a dry tonic and dried lemon or rosemary sprig for garnish.

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Tread Softly

This wine label exists to help you remember your impact on the planet (and yourself!) through its portfolio of handcrafted non-alcoholic wines that use SA grapes and a unique ultra-membrane method. For every six bottles sold, Tread Softly plants an Australian native tree to help reduce its carbon footprint – an initiative that’s planted two million trees to date! Even better, the drops are bursting with flavour that is vibrant on the tongue and keeps you clear-headed. We’ll toast to that with a glass of the Everything Except Prosecco – a fine bubble drop with crisp citrus notes.

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Little Bang Brewing

The MO of homegrown craft aficionados Little Bang Brewing is to create beers that make you raise an eyebrow – drinks that are bamboozling, curious and moreish. And that’s exactly what the Stepney brewhouse has done with their Spacer Zero Alcohol beer. The brewery hasn’t cut any corners when making this drink. Real malt and real hops are naturally brewed to give you that ‘real’ beer taste with under 0.5 percent ABV.

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Vitis Virgin Spritzers

Distinctive drinks with a difference, Vitis Virgin Spritzers has been revolutionising the non-alc game since 2024 with their alternative booze-free bevvies you can drink all day and all night. Single-source spring water is blended with unfermented grape juice sourced from SA’s world-renowned wine regions and lifted with a light fizz of carbonation. Choose between the thirst-quenching wild berry Fleurieu Peninsula spritzer or the crisp tropical fruit Adelaide Hills version – delish!

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