Athletic Brewing in Savannah, GA

Husk Savannah is the Georgia outpost of the Southern restaurant group founded by chef Sean Brock in Charleston, occupying a restored early-twentieth-century building on Oglethorpe Avenue in the Historic District. Its beverage list is one of the most seriously constructed alcohol-free programmes in the city: the printed cocktail menu carries a section headed SPIRIT-FREE, positioned alongside the house cocktails rather than buried after the sodas, with four builds priced $12 to $14. They are made with named non-alcoholic spirits — Lyre's coffee and rum expressions, ISH Caribbean spice, Seedlip Grove, Giffard's alcohol-free ginger — plus a South African sparkling Pinotage rosé sold by the glass and Athletic Brewing's Upside Dawn on the beer list.

Peregrin is the rooftop bar on top of the Perry Lane Hotel, an all-weather open-air lounge with a year-round pool, tropical planting and long views over the Historic District. Its drinks list carries a section headed simply MOCKTAILS, four drinks at a flat $12, and every one is built on a named non-alcoholic spirit rather than juice and syrup: Seedlip Garden and Grove, Lyre's alcohol-free brut and aperitivo, Giffard's non-alcoholic elderflower. The beer list adds Athletic Brewing golden ale and IPA at $8. It is open from 11am to 11pm daily, to midnight on Friday and Saturday, which makes it one of the few good zero-proof lists in Savannah available in daylight.

Water Witch Tiki is a 21-and-over tiki bar in the Starland District, a dark, densely decorated room on Bull Street that takes its rum programme seriously and applies the same thinking to the drinks without any. Its menu carries a standing Non-Alcoholic section of four builds at $8 to $9, made with the same house syrups, shrubs and proprietary bitters as everything else — chamomile and green cardamom, tamarind-mango-mint purée, blueberry shrub, a Sichuan-hibiscus bitters the bar makes itself. Three Athletic Brewing alcohol-free beers sit in the cans list at $7. It opens at 5pm midweek and 11am on Friday and Saturday, and closes on Sundays.

Ardsley Station is a neighbourhood restaurant on Victory Drive at the edge of Ardsley Park, away from the tourist blocks, serving Southern plates with local produce from 11am to 10pm every day of the week. Its drinks list prints a section headed Zero-Proof carrying three built cocktails between $8.90 and $9.90 — a rosemary-and-orgeat citrus drink, a seasonal-fruit build on Amethyst's blueberry-ginger botanical, and a cucumber-shrub spritz — alongside Athletic Brewing's New Dawn alcohol-free beer at $4.90 in the beer and seltzer section. The all-day hours make it one of the more reliably open zero-proof lists in the city.