Best Mocktails in Burlington, VT
Burlington's alcohol-free drinking is unusually well built for a city of 45,000, and the reason is that Vermont's producers got there first. Zero Gravity's Rescue Club line — an IPA and a pilsner, both under 0.5% — is brewed on Pine Street and poured at its own beer hall. Switchback installed a BrewVo de-alcoholisation system in January 2026 to bring Switchback N.A. production fully in-house, making its Flynn Avenue brewery the East Coast production site for the technology. Citizen Cider dealcoholises its flagship into The Clean Mayor, a true 0.0% cider with ginger and lemon. On the bar side the city is just as deliberate. The 126 prints its alcohol-free drinks as Temperance Cocktails, each named for a leader of the Temperance Movement, and makes every house syrup and bitters without alcohol so any of them can cross over. Devil Takes a Holiday calls its section atonements and builds them from bases made in-house. The Venetian Soda Lounge — a revival of a Burlington ginger ale brand lost during the Second World War — runs six zero-proof cocktails on CleanCo spirits alongside seven house sodas. And Mesmer Kava, Vermont's first kava bar, opened in the Karma Bird House in May 2025 as the one room in the state that keeps evening hours with no alcohol at all.
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Named NA cocktails on the menu
These Burlington venues list specific non-alcoholic cocktails on their published menus.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
The Venetian Soda Lounge is a 1920s-styled hideaway in Burlington's South End Arts District, built around a family soda recipe: Venetian Ginger Ale, a Burlington brand lost during the Second World War and revived in 2017. The lounge opened on Pine Street in 2022 and prints a full Zero Proof mocktails section — six drinks at $9 to $12, three of them built on CleanCo's alcohol-free gin and whiskey — alongside seven house-made craft sodas at $5, soda floats, creemees and milkshakes. It serves alcohol too, but it is the rare licensed room where the non-alcoholic side is the founding idea rather than an accommodation. Live jazz, low light, closed Monday and Tuesday.
Signature NA drinks- The Clean Getaway — CleanCo alcohol-free gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, chilled coupe
- Yes-groni — Amaro Lucano non-alcoholic, CleanCo alcohol-free gin, white grape juice, orange
- Perp on Maple — CleanCo alcohol-free whiskey, maple cream syrup, bitters, seltzer
- Green Light Mule — lemon juice, mint, Venetian Ginger Ale, bitters
- Mr. White in the Kitchen — smoked rosemary grapefruit syrup, lime, tonic
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
The Archives is a downtown arcade bar on College Street — vintage cabinets, pinball, a long craft beer list and a cocktail programme that is a good deal more considered than the format suggests. Hotel Vermont's guide to drinking in Burlington names it as one of two bars in the city making creative N/A cocktails, alongside Devil Takes a Holiday. It is also the most useful room in this guide for anyone not drinking, for a structural reason: it opens at noon at weekends and runs to 2am every night, and there is something to do with your hands that is not a glass.
Signature NA drinks- Orange Cream Soda (NA: fresh squeezed oj, coconut, vanilla)
- Dawn of the Dragon (NA: dragonfruit, passionfruit, blueberry, ginger beer)
- Basilisk Venom (NA: passionfruit, lemon, honey, basil, soda)
- Clear Eyes Lonely Heart (NA: yellow bell pepper, lime, grapefruit, strawberry, basil)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Zero Gravity's Pine Street beer hall is the taproom of the brewery behind Rescue Club, one of the earliest craft non-alcoholic beer lines in New England. Rescue Club was launched in January 2021 as a collaboration between Zero Gravity and Citizen Cider co-founder Kris Nelson, and both expressions — the IPA and the pilsner, each under 0.5% ABV — are stocked in cans at the beer hall alongside the full draft list. The brewery dry-hops the IPA again after the alcohol is removed, which is why it tastes like a hop-forward beer rather than a compromise. Open 8am to 9pm daily, to 10pm on Friday and Saturday, with food, an outdoor patio and dogs welcome outside.
Signature NA drinks- Rescue Club IPA — non-alcoholic, under 0.5% ABV, dry-hopped after de-alcoholisation
- Rescue Club Pils — non-alcoholic pilsner, under 0.5% ABV
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Switchback is an employee-owned Burlington brewery on Flynn Avenue, best known for its unfiltered Switchback Ale, and since January 2026 it has been the most heavily invested non-alcoholic producer in Vermont. The brewery installed a BrewVo de-alcoholisation system to bring production of Switchback N.A. fully in-house after the beer outgrew its trial run, and the same equipment makes Burlington the East Coast production site for BrewVo-made beers on behalf of other breweries and drinks brands. The tap room pours the full range and is open Wednesday to Sunday from noon to 9pm, Tuesday evenings from 5pm, closed Monday.
Signature NA drinks- Switchback N.A. — non-alcoholic beer, produced in-house on BrewVo from early 2026
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Citizen Cider presses cider from Vermont and New York apples at its Flynn Avenue press house, where the Press House Pub serves cider-inspired pub food, the full cider range, a bar and non-alcoholic options. Its alcohol-free product is The Clean Mayor, a genuine 0.0% ABV cider — the flagship Mayor dealcoholised and then blended with real ginger and lemon juice, giving it a lemon nose and a crisp apple finish. Co-founder Kris Nelson also helped develop Zero Gravity's Rescue Club non-alcoholic beer, which makes this one address responsible for two of the three alcohol-free drinks Vermont producers are best known for. Open from noon daily, to 9pm midweek and 7pm on Monday and Tuesday.
Signature NA drinks- The Clean Mayor — 0.0% ABV dealcoholised cider blended with ginger and lemon juice
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Doma Bar is a lesbian-owned and QPOC-operated cocktail bar on Pine Street in Burlington's South End Arts District, opened as a deliberate counterweight to venues that ask people to hustle, mask, perform and optimise. It keeps beer, wine and zero-proof drinks on hand at all times and runs a large non-alcoholic menu rather than a token pair of options — a policy choice that follows directly from the room's premise, since a bar built around belonging cannot make a third of its guests order soda. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 5pm, to midnight at weekends, closed Sunday and Monday.
Signature NA drinks- Doma Spritz (NA: an earthy, herbaceous non-alcoholic liqueur with zero-proof sparkling white wine and a dash of hibiscus syrup)
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What makes a great mocktail?
A great mocktail isn't just a cocktail with the alcohol removed. The best non-alcoholic drinks are designed from the ground up around the flavor profile, mouthfeel, and ritual of a craft cocktail — without leaning on alcohol as a shortcut.
The signal: named drinks on a published menu, fresh-pressed juices, house-made shrubs or syrups, bitters and tinctures for complexity, and increasingly an NA-spirits section (Lyre's, Seedlip, Ritual, Wilderton, and others) used the same way a cocktail bar uses gin or whiskey. The opposite: an off-menu "we can make something" with no specific drinks, defaulting to soda, juice, or sparkling water.
That distinction is why we rank venues by mocktail menu depth and NA Program Strength rather than treating every "mocktail option" as equal. A bar that lists three named NA cocktails on its printed menu is doing the work; a bar that says "we can probably do something" is not.
Frequently asked about mocktails in Burlington
6 venues in Burlington serve named non-alcoholic cocktails on their menu. Top picks include The Venetian Soda Lounge, The Archives, Zero Gravity Beer Hall.
A mocktail is a non-alcoholic drink built with the same craft and complexity as a cocktail — fresh juices, infused syrups, bitters, herbal tinctures, NA spirits — rather than just a soda or juice. The best NA bars treat mocktails as a real program, not a placeholder.
Burlington's alcohol-free drinking is unusually well built for a city of 45,000, and the reason is that Vermont's producers got there first. Zero Gravity's Rescue Club line — an IPA and a pilsner, both under 0.5% — is brewed on Pine Street and poured at its own beer hall. Switchback installed a BrewVo de-alcoholisation system in January 2026 to bring Switchback N.A. production fully in-house, making its Flynn Avenue brewery the East Coast production site for the technology. Citizen Cider dealcoholises its flagship into The Clean Mayor, a true 0.0% cider with ginger and lemon. On the bar side the city is just as deliberate. The 126 prints its alcohol-free drinks as Temperance Cocktails, each named for a leader of the Temperance Movement, and makes every house syrup and bitters without alcohol so any of them can cross over. Devil Takes a Holiday calls its section atonements and builds them from bases made in-house. The Venetian Soda Lounge — a revival of a Burlington ginger ale brand lost during the Second World War — runs six zero-proof cocktails on CleanCo spirits alongside seven house sodas. And Mesmer Kava, Vermont's first kava bar, opened in the Karma Bird House in May 2025 as the one room in the state that keeps evening hours with no alcohol at all.
Venues that publish named non-alcoholic cocktails come first, ordered by menu depth — the more named NA drinks a venue lists, the higher it ranks. Our NA Program Strength rating (1-5) breaks ties and reflects the program overall: 5 means a dedicated NA establishment, 4 an extensive NA menu, 3 meaningful NA options.
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