Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Bars in Indianapolis, IN
Craft cocktail bars and lounges in Indianapolis that take their non-alcoholic program seriously. Indianapolis had a dedicated alcohol-free bar and lost it. Memento Zero Proof — billed as Indiana's first — opened in Fishers in October 2023 and closed permanently about a year later after its owners could not agree new lease terms; several city guides still list it. So the honest picture in 2026 is that the metro has no alcohol-free cocktail bar, and what it has instead is unusually good depth inside ordinary bars plus a scattered set of fully alcohol-free rooms. The retail anchor is Orangily, opened in Carmel in 2022 by sisters Andrea Simpson and Kristin Patrick as Loren's Alcohol-Free Beverages, which added a second shop on East 54th Street in SoBro in March 2025 — the only non-alcoholic bottle shop inside Marion County. Massachusetts Avenue carries the zero-proof density: The Ball & Biscuit, Indiana's original craft cocktail bar since 2010, prints seven named non-alcoholic drinks including a Spritz AF on Lyre's and Fre; The Fountain Room, the Wisconsin-style supper club in the Bottleworks District, runs a printed "No ABV" section; Sundry & Vice builds Seedlip Grove into 24 Carrot Magic; and BODHI, women-owned and family-run, layers Lyre's and Fre Rosé into the Water Lily Dessert. Fountain Square is the other pocket worth walking: The Inferno Room, Ed Rudisell's 2018 tiki bar, prints a MOCKTAILS section of layered $10 builds three blocks from Nine Lives, the alcohol-free cat café Kelley Niiyama has run since 2020. Elsewhere, Sun King brews its own N/A Sunlight Cream Ale at the Cole-Noble taproom, SKOSH in Garfield Park calls itself Indy's first SlowBar and is alcohol-free throughout, and Seedlip turns up in four venues across the city. The Mood in Fishers is the metro's only kava lounge — no alcohol, but kava is psychoactive and the same counter sells hemp-derived THC, which is worth knowing before you go.
6 cocktail-style venues listed
Craft cocktail bars with NA programs
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The Mood is a kava bar and botanical shop on Mundy Drive in Fishers, established in 2021 and the Indianapolis metro's first dedicated kava retailer. It was founded by a retired Eli Lilly immunopharmacology researcher, Dr. Hatfield, alongside Taylor Hatfield, and the front of the shop sells herbal supplements while a kava bar runs at the back with a free-to-play arcade and lounge attached. No alcohol is served. It is important to know what is on offer before you go: alongside kava the shop sells kratom-adjacent botanicals including blue lotus, kanna, klip dagga and mad honey, plus CBD, hemp-derived delta products and vapes. Kava contains no alcohol but is psychoactive and sedating, and the room is 21+.
Signature NA drinks- Piña Colada kava shell
- Pumpkin Spice kava shell
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The Ball & Biscuit opened on Massachusetts Avenue in June 2010 and is generally credited as Indiana's first craft cocktail bar. It was founded by local attorney Trevor Belden with bartender Zach Wilks, who later left to build the Wilks & Wilson syrup line, and takes its name from the 1930s ribbon microphone nicknamed the ball and biscuit — vintage mics and music gear are part of the fit-out. For a bar of that vintage the non-alcoholic list is unusually developed: seven named zero-proof drinks stand alongside the full-proof menu rather than in a footnote, including the Spritz AF built on Lyre's Italian Orange and Aperitif Rosso with Fre sparkling brut, the Twist of Fate, the New Fashioned and the floral Whole Garden.
Signature NA drinks- Spritz AF (Lyre's Italian Orange, Lyre's Aperitif Rosso, lemon, orange juice, Fre non-alcoholic sparkling brut)
- Twist of Fate (zero-proof spirit, ginger syrup, basil concentrate, lemon, club soda)
- New Fashioned (alcohol-free old fashioned)
- The Whole Garden (zero-proof brut, floral)
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The Inferno Room is a tiki bar on Virginia Avenue in Fountain Square, opened on 11 September 2018 by longtime tiki collector Ed Rudisell with his wife Sasatorn Rudisell and partner Chris Coy, in a building that once held a Marion County courthouse. It holds what the bar describes as one of the largest collections of Papua New Guinea art outside a museum, split across the Kahuna Lounge and the Luau Room. The non-alcoholic drinks are printed as their own MOCKTAILS section of the cocktail menu at $10 each — the Coocoonut Grove, The Way to Eden and Veiled Virtues — built to the same tropical, layered spec as the rum drinks rather than reduced to fruit juice.
Signature NA drinks- Coocoonut Grove (coconut, pineapple, cinnamon, walnut bitters, lemon)
- The Way to Eden (passion fruit, orgeat, pineapple, kiwi, prickly pear, lemon)
- Veiled Virtues (strawberry, cinnamon, coconut, pineapple, lemon, orange juice)
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BODHI is a 21-and-over Thai craft cocktail bar and bistro at the far end of Massachusetts Avenue, run by Taelor Carmine alongside her mother Nicky Carmine and grandmother Pen Phojanasupan, both of whom spent years in Thai restaurant kitchens. It is women-owned and family-run, with a pan-Thai menu built from recipes passed down through the three of them. The bar treats zero-proof as a build rather than a substitution: the Water Lily Dessert layers Lyre's Dry London Spirit and Fre Rosé over coconut water, strawberry shrub, lychee jelly and soda, and the rotating Secret Garden leans on seasonal fruit and vegetables. Seedlip appears in the seasonal list. The kitchen closes an hour before the bar does.
Signature NA drinks- Water Lily Dessert (Lyre's Dry London Spirit, Fre Rosé, coconut water, strawberry shrub, lychee jelly, soda)
- Secret Garden (rotating seasonal fruit and herb build)
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Cannon Ball Lounge sits six floors up on the roof of Hotel Indy on East Washington Street, and is the only indoor-outdoor rooftop bar downtown — which matters in a city with four distinct seasons. It is named for Erwin "Cannonball" Baker, the Indianapolis motorcyclist who rode in the first Indianapolis 500 and set transcontinental records for decades afterwards, and the drinks list leans on local reference points throughout. The non-alcoholic drinks are a printed zero-proof section rather than an afterthought: I Miss My Spritz is built on DHOS Bittersweet Aperitif and non-alcoholic sparkling wine, Good Graces runs lemon, guava and honey against New Orleans non-alcoholic bitters and ginger beer, and the Tail of Thyme uses a house plum-lavender syrup.
Signature NA drinks- I Miss My Spritz (DHOS Bittersweet Aperitif, non-alcoholic sparkling wine)
- Good Graces (lemon, guava, honey, New Orleans non-alcoholic bitters, orange, ginger beer)
- Tail of Thyme (house plum-lavender syrup)
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Sundry & Vice is an apothecary-themed cocktail bar inside the Bottleworks Hotel at the top of Massachusetts Avenue, opened on 23 October 2021 as the second location of the Cincinnati bar of the same name in Over-the-Rhine. The fit-out runs to pharmacy cabinetry, tincture bottles and a soda-fountain sensibility, and the program is built on house-made syrups, freshly squeezed juice and cocktails on draft. That component-driven approach is why the zero-proof drinks work: The Young and the Spiritless layers Spiritless non-alcoholic bourbon with pineapple, cinnamon, orgeat, plum bitters, mint and ginger beer, and 24 Carrot Magic builds Seedlip Grove over carrot, lemon, pineapple, black pepper and ginger.
Signature NA drinks- The Young and the Spiritless (Spiritless non-alcoholic bourbon, pineapple, cinnamon, orgeat, plum bitters, mint, ginger beer)
- 24 Carrot Magic (Seedlip Grove, carrot, lemon, pineapple, black pepper, ginger)
Other bars in Indianapolis with serious NA programs
These aren't classified as cocktail bars, but their NA programs are extensive enough to be worth a stop.
What separates a good NA cocktail bar from the rest?
A great non-alcoholic cocktail bar isn't defined by whether it stocks Seedlip on the shelf. It's defined by whether the bartenders treat alcohol-free drinks as cocktails — built with the same logic, the same balance, the same care for mouthfeel and presentation as the alcoholic side of the menu.
The signal: a printed NA section on the menu with named drinks, an NA-spirits row on the back bar (Lyre's, Seedlip, Wilderton, Ritual, sometimes Monday Zero Alcohol Gin or Wilderton Lustre), house-made shrubs and bitters available for NA builds, and staff who can talk through what's in a drink without defaulting to "we can do something with juice."
The opposite: a generic "mocktail" line item priced at $8 with no description, or worse, a Shirley Temple by default. We rank cocktail-style venues here by NA Program Strength and lead with the venues that have published named NA drinks on their menu.
Frequently asked about NA cocktail bars in Indianapolis
6 cocktail-style bars in Indianapolis run non-alcoholic programs we've verified. Top picks include The Mood Health & Wellness, The Ball & Biscuit, The Inferno Room.
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