Eight years alcohol-free, Megan Swan treated the Calgary Stampede like a reporting assignment: corporate open bars, a Michelin Key rooftop, the Badlands rave tent, tech mixers and the chuckwagon races, ordering zero-proof at every stop. The verdict: sober Stampede has arrived, the math favors the non-drinkers, and watch that checkout screen before you tip 36% without noticing.
Senior Sober Curator Contributor Justin Lamb has reviewed more than 130 non-alcoholic beers for The Sober Curator since 2021. These are his ten best of 2026, spanning Double IPAs, pilsners, hazy NEIPAs, nitro stouts, and a peanut butter milk dark that deserves its own fan club. Find your perfect pour, then take the quiz to make it official.
Whether you are already Sober AF, sober curious, or ready to dive into Dry January, this is the ultimate list…
Athletic Brewing is a long-familiar name here, already. If you haven’t checked it out yet, read my review of Free…
We know Athletic Brewing pretty well by now. They have national ad campaigns and what is probably the most extensive…
Athletic Brewing, out of Connecticut, is no stranger to Happy Every Hour, but this time, instead of an IPA or…
At the tip of a residential street in downtown Pittsburgh, you will find a small coffee shop with a hidden…
The Sober Spotlight is a section on our site that highlights extraordinary people in recovery doing really cool things. Today we are shining a light on Justin Lamb. He puts the EXTRA in extraordinary in the very best of ways. Justin is a husband and cat dad that produces a super cool podcast, called Friend Request.
With distribution hubs on each coast and a brand new bar opening in Austin, Texas, Athletic Brewing is a name…
Athletic Brewing comes to us from Connecticut, but even though they hail from a small state, they pack a large flavor. In the non-alcoholic beer world, Athletic Brewing is still in its infancy at only three years old, but what they lack in age, they make up for in flavor, variety, and many of the standards you would normally associate with an alcoholic brewery.
