Athletic Brewing in St. Louis, MO

Pop's Blue Moon calls itself "A Mindful Bar," and it has receipts: this century-old tavern on The Hill — built with lumber salvaged from the 1904 World's Fair — pours one of St. Louis' deepest non-alcoholic lineups alongside its regular bar. Owner Joshua Grigaitis launched booze-free New Moon N/A Saturdays back in November 2018, and by 2022 Feast Magazine reported that non-alcoholic options accounted for about 30 percent of sales, from Athletic Brewing and WellBeing beers to some ten varieties of Lyre's zero-proof spirits and his own Cheerz NA seltzers. One honest heads-up: alcohol-free here isn't always substance-free — the bar also serves CBD, CBG and delta-8 THC-infused drinks. Live music keeps the tiny room loud most nights.

4 Hands Brewing Co. has anchored St. Louis' LaSalle Park neighborhood since 2011, and its lineup now includes three house-brewed non-alcoholic beers: NA City Wide Hoppy Pale, NA Full Life Lager and NA Incarnation, a Mosaic-hopped IPA — all under 0.5% ABV. The tasting room at 1220 S. 8th Street backs them up with a mocktail list built on zero-proof spirits, Athletic Brewing Lite and local Excel sodas, plus food from Hi-Pointe Drive-In's kitchen and an upstairs arcade with Skee-Ball. City Wide, the brewery's civic flagship, donates $1 from every case sold to local nonprofit partners — a program that has generated close to half a million dollars.

A Central West End fixture since 2015, Retreat Gastropub pairs elevated pub fare with one of St. Louis's most respected cocktail programs — and the current menu gives the zero-proof side its own dedicated Non-Alcoholic section. Alongside Giffard-based builds like the Nah-Perol Spritz and the tiki-leaning Jungle Birdie, you'll find a coffee-forward Cold Fashioned, the savory pineapple-and-bell-pepper Hush Pupper, a house shrub and soda, Athletic Brewing and Best Day NA beers, Gruvi's alcohol-free Dry Secco, and a Mighty Kind CBD seltzer. Now owned by longtime staffers Jennifer Anderson and Sydney Caldwell, Retreat serves dinner six nights a week plus a popular Sunday brunch.

A Tower Grove South institution since 2005, The Royale is the rare neighborhood bar that treats zero-proof drinkers as first-class citizens. Owner Steven Fitzpatrick Smith's corner gastropub — set in a building that has housed a bar since before Prohibition — prints a dedicated N/A cocktails section right on the menu: five house-built alcohol-free drinks, from the ginger-and-mint Functioning Bastard made with zero-proof gin to the beet-forward HeartBeet Spritz, backed by Athletic Brewing and Guinness non-alcoholic beers. Add one of South City's most beloved garden patios and a scratch kitchen turning out tacos and burgers, and it's an easy pick for mixed groups of drinkers and non-drinkers alike.

A DeMun-neighborhood fixture for more than two decades, Sasha's Wine Bar anchors a leafy Clayton block with a cellar of more than 4,200 bottles and a wine list curated by sommelier Denise Mueller. The zero-proof corner of that list is quietly excellent for a classic wine bar: NoZeco sparkling brut poured by the glass, Giesen alcohol-removed Sauvignon Blanc, and a trio of Leitz cans spanning sparkling Riesling, sparkling rosé, and Zero Point Five Pinot Noir. A dedicated N/A Cocktails section adds a house alcohol-free spritz, the St. Agrestis Phony Negroni, and Parch's Desert Margarita, while Athletic Brewing and Best Day cover non-alcoholic beer.