Athletic Brewing in Milwaukee, WI

Boone & Crockett is a riverside cocktail bar in Milwaukee's Harbor District that trades on the motto "Pretentious Drinks Without the Pretentiousness." It backs up its cocktail reputation with a genuine, separately published non-alcoholic menu of five named mocktails plus a stocked zero-proof bar (Giffard NA aperitif, Lagunitas Hop Refresher, Athletic Lite and Guinness N/A). The bar runs on an order-at-the-bar model with the on-site Taco Moto truck for food and shares its address with sister event venue The Cooperage. Each Dry January it anchors Milwaukee's sober-curious scene by hosting the free after-party for N/A Day, the non-alcoholic beverage festival held next door.

Centraal Grand Café & Tappery is a Belgian- and Amsterdam-inspired grand café and taproom from Milwaukee's Lowlands Group, anchoring the Kinnickinnic Avenue bar district in Bay View. Alongside one of the city's largest tap programs, it keeps a standing "Free Spirited" menu of zero-proof cocktails, NA beers and booze-free bubbles that runs year-round rather than only during Dry January. Spirit-free builds include the Faux-Fashioned and the Lekker Tropikaal Mule. Open daily from 8 a.m., it works as both a morning café and an evening drinking hall.

Central Standard Crafthouse & Kitchen is the downtown restaurant and bar attached to Central Standard's craft distillery, occupying a renovated five-story building in East Town with a scratch kitchen, a cocktail bar, and a rooftop terrace. The same distilling craft behind its spirits goes into a standing lineup of zero-proof drinks, including the Hornchata (rice milk, cinnamon, vanilla), a matcha tonic, a ginger tonic, and a spirit-free Old Fashioned, alongside Athletic Brewing's Run Wild non-alcoholic beer. Multiple Milwaukee publications single it out as one of the city's leading spots for non-alcoholic cocktails.