Bars with Non-Alcoholic Beer in Washington, DC
Where to order an NA beer in Washington without guessing: every venue below either lists non-alcoholic beer on a menu we've read, names a specific NA brand it carries, or is a brewery pouring its own. Draft is flagged only where the menu says so — cans and bottles are the norm.
5 verified venues · 3 with NA beer on a menu we've read · 1 brewery
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
Lapis is a modern Afghan bistro at 1847 Columbia Road NW in the heart of Adams Morgan, run by husband-and-wife owners Zubair and Shamim Popal, who fled Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion of the 1980s and went on to build a DC restaurant group that also includes Lutece and Pascual. Chef Shamim Popal - who arrived in 1987 not knowing how to cook rice - anchors the kitchen with family recipes passed down through generations, and Lapis has earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand in every DC guide. Below the restaurant sits Lapop, a subterranean speakeasy-style cocktail bar and vinyl lounge with a marbled bar and curated bookshelves. The non-alcoholic pour to order is the Anar, made with pomegranate juice, rose water, soda and lemon zest. All meat served is halal.
- Untitled Art: Pilsitalian-style pilsner, 0.0%$8
- Untitled Art: Citra Haze 0.0%hazy ipa, 0.0% abv$8
From the venue's published menu, confirmed Sep 14, 2026.
Carries:Untitled Art
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
River Club is a Mediterranean-coastal restaurant and bar on the Georgetown waterfront at 3000 K Street NW, serving mezze-style shareable plates drawn from Lebanon, Italy and Spain, with patio seating over the Potomac. It trades seven days with lunch, weekend brunch, dinner and a weekday happy hour. The drinks programme is notable for a dedicated zero-proof section, headed 0% Booze, whose cocktails mirror the food: a 0% Lemon Basil on basil-infused Seedlip Grove 42 with lemon, celery and celery salt; a 0% Sumac 75 on Freixenet alcohol-removed sparkling with sumac syrup, lemon and mint; and a 0% Farid Has to Drive with cucumber-and-fennel shrub and chinotto soda, all $15. Brunch adds 0% Aperol and Hugo spritzes on Undone. Peroni 0.0 is $9.
- Peroni 0.0pale lager italy
From the venue's published menu, confirmed Sep 14, 2026.
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
The Dabney is a Michelin-starred Mid-Atlantic restaurant at 122 Blagden Alley NW, a tucked-away corner of Shaw, opened in October 2015 by chef-owner Jeremiah Langhorne. The 55-seat dining room is built around a ten-foot wood-burning stone hearth, and almost everything passes through it. Langhorne's hyper-regional cooking won a Michelin star in 2017, the first year the guide reviewed Washington, and the 2018 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic, on top of a place on Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants of 2016. The bar, run by bar director Daniel Todd, keeps a dedicated spirit-free list available a la carte at the bar or paired alongside the tasting menu: a Fennel Sour built with toasted fennel, egg white, lime and lemon, and a Manhattan riff on a house sorghum-based faux whiskey with spicebush amaro and black walnut bitters.
- Good Times Non-Alcoholic IPA
From the venue's published menu, confirmed Sep 5, 2026.
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
DC Brau Brewing is a craft brewery and taproom at 3178-B Bladensburg Road NE in Ivy City, co-founded by Brandon Skall and Jeff Hancock as one of the District's pioneering modern breweries. Its non-alcoholic beer, NA Brau, launched in late April 2024 and is billed as the first canned non-alcoholic beer brewed by a DC brewery. It is a 0.3% ABV pale ale modelled on DC Brau's flagship The Public, using the same Centennial and El Dorado hops with Caramel 40 and Munich malts for a pale golden colour. Rather than tunnel pasteurisation the brewery uses a hybrid Lallemand yeast strain plus Chinova Bioworks' Chiber mushroom-fibre extract as a natural antimicrobial, which preserves flavour and carbonation. It is sold in cans across the region and pours on the taproom list Thursday to Sunday.
Brewery taproom listed for its non-alcoholic beer — the venue page has the current pour.
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Spark Social House is a daytime cafe and evening bar at 2009 14th Street NW in the U Street Corridor, one block from U Street Metro, billed as the country's first non-alcoholic LGBTQ+ bar and cafe when it opened on 8 March 2025. Co-founded by Nick Tsusaki and Shua Goodwin in the former Gibson space, it runs from 9am to as late as 1am. In December 2025 it added a full liquor licence and adopted a one-for-one menu: every cocktail, wine and beer has a non-alcoholic counterpart, so it is NA-forward rather than dry. Named drinks include Jalapeno Business, It's That Me Espresso, Side Eye, Ultra Violet and Executive Orchard. It also serves kava and functional-mushroom drinks. Voted Best Coffee Shop by LGBTQ+ readers in 2025.
Carries:Athletic BrewingBest Day Brewing
NA beer styles on Washington menus
Read off the menus above — the count is venues verifiably pouring each style.
NA beer brands carried in Washington
Brands the venues themselves name — the count is venues carrying each.
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How we know a Washington bar has NA beer
Three kinds of evidence put a venue on this page, and each card says which. The strongest is a menu we've read: the exact beers, the price where the menu prints one, and the date we confirmed it. Next are breweries — a brewery is in this directory because it pours non-alcoholic beer, often its own. Last are venues whose own menu or copy names a specific NA brand they carry. Nothing here is inferred from a review or a vague “great NA selection”.
“Non-alcoholic” is a legal band, not a promise of zero: under 0.5% ABV in the US, with “alcohol-free” reserved for 0.0%. The big lagers (Heineken 0.0, Guinness 0.0) are labeled 0.0%; most craft NA beers sit somewhere under 0.5%. We name the brand wherever the venue does so you can check the label that matters to you.
Draft NA beer is spreading but still uncommon, so we never assume it. A pour is marked “on draft” only when the venue's menu says tap or draft; everything else should be read as cans or bottles.
Frequently asked about non-alcoholic beer in Washington
We've verified 5 places in Washington with non-alcoholic beer: Lapis, River Club, The Dabney and more below. 3 list it on a menu we've read line by line; the rest are breweries, or venues that name a specific NA beer brand they carry. Every listing shows when we last checked.
Usually not quite. In the US, beer labeled "non-alcoholic" must be under 0.5% ABV — a trace level also found in some ripe fruit and kombucha — while "alcohol-free" means 0.0%. Most craft NA beers (Athletic, Best Day, Untitled Art) sit between 0.0% and 0.5%; Heineken 0.0 and Guinness 0.0 are labeled 0.0%. Rules differ abroad: in the UK "alcohol-free" is 0.05% or under and "de-alcoholised" up to 0.5%. If you avoid alcohol entirely, look for a 0.0% label — we name the brand wherever the venue does, so you can check.
Draft NA beer is still the exception: most bars serve it in cans or bottles, and that is what to expect. We flag "on draft" only when a venue's own menu says tap or draft — none of the current Washington listings has a menu-confirmed draft pour yet. If a listing doesn't say draft, assume packaged.
On the Washington menus and listings we've verified, the most-carried brands are Athletic Brewing (1 venue), Best Day Brewing (1 venue), Untitled Art (1 venue). Each brand on this page links to everywhere else it is poured.