14 Best Nonalcoholic Drinks of 2025

Feragaia is a bright, light (don’t let the dark bottle fool you), botanical spirit made in Scotland. It opens with complex florals of chrysanthemum, layered with spice and sting from the cayenne. Testers compared the aroma to gasoline and cleaning products, in a stiff but not offputting way.

On its own, Feragaia is stronger and acerbic, bright in the nose and just bitter enough to slow you down. Mixed with citrus rind and seltzer, the spirit opens up into a delicious, adult, refreshing quaff, subtle and slightly piney, with testers poetically comparing it to a walk through damp Maine woods. Unique, mildly savory, and sort of gin-like, this drink could entertain a mixologist for at least the month of January. Feragaia is sold in squat, attractive, deep-amber-colored 700-ml glass bottles that look right at home on a bar cart.

Ingredient highlights: Feragaia contains botanical distillates but does not list them. Other ingredients include cayenne, blackcurrant, chamomile, and apple.

ABV: 0.0%

Dietary notes: Feragaia says it is free from common allergens and adherent to but not certified as halal, vegan, kosher, and gluten-free.

Pentire Adrift is a compelling, but not overly challenging, clear herbal spirit. It opens with green, vegetal notes—rosemary, moss, and sage—with bright citrus and an alcohol-like bitter sourness. If you don’t like a dry, astringent drink, you might not like Adrift, but we found the tartness quite moreish.

Adrift comes in a simple, attractive, clear 200-mL or 700-mL bottle. Pentire recommends serving it with ice and soda water or tonic. Carbonation opens up the nose, bringing out subtle floral notes and sweetness. A squeeze of citrus elevates it to a refreshing, tart, woodsy drink that we love to sip.

Ingredient highlights: Adrift contains rock samphire and other sea-herb extracts, and the premixed Adrift & Tonic contains quinine.

ABV: Pentire says its beverages are “non-alcoholic so less than 0.5 abv.”

Dietary notes: Adrift is vegan and gluten-free, and it contains no added sugar. Adrift & Tonic is vegan and gluten-free.

Tasting of garden peas, cucumber, and thyme, Seedlip Garden 108 is vegetal and herby, inviting you through layers of green, grassy flavors. Mix in some soda water, and the acid and sweetness bloom, creating a refreshing, mature alternative to a flavored seltzer. We liked this spirit mixed with seltzer and lemon; we don’t recommend this as a beverage to sip neat. Some tasters said it smelled and tasted of mouthwash and aftershave, but those flavors mostly mellowed out into a pleasant piney taste once we mixed it with seltzer or tonic. Seedlip Garden 108 and Pentire Adrift are somewhat similar—both are clear, bright, vegetal spirits—but Garden 108 is sweeter, less tart, and more subtle. Garden 108 comes in elegant 700-mL bottles.

Ingredient highlights: Garden 108 contains “botanical distillates and extracts,” but the label does not list them. It contains hay, peas, and hops.

ABV: Seedlip says that Garden 108 may contain trace amounts of alcohol with an ABV of less than 0.05% when consumed neat, and that when consumed in the recommended serving (2 ounces with ice and a mixer) it contains no more alcohol than a glass of orange juice.

Dietary notes: Garden 108 is vegan, “allergen friendly,” gluten-free, sugar-free, and sweetener-free.

Tasters fell in love with the smell of Aplós Calme, a sweet, captivating, citrus aroma that came right off the glass. But the flavor is a bit more complex, with floral undertones, hints of cucumber, and a bitterness that, mixed with the somewhat slick mouthfeel of the spirit, reminded us of soap. If any level of perfume in a consumable puts you off or takes your taste buds to Grandma’s bathroom, stay away.

But especially with a little seltzer and lemon, Calme rewards the brave with a truly one-of-a-kind drink that evokes crushed pears, fresh-squeezed citrus, lemon candy, and the grapefruit-flavored Japanese sports drink Pocari Sweat. Like its companions, Aplós Ease and Aplós Arise, Calme comes in a squat, opaque, 750-mL bottle that might accidentally wind up wherever you keep your fancy olive oils.

Aplós Ease is the same drink as Calme, but it replaces the hemp with mostly lion’s mane extract. Some tasters thought the substitution deprived the drink of some of its complexity. But others found Ease’s simplified flavor more coherent, boosting the herbal notes and lessening Calme’s soap factor. As the name promises, it is easy to drink, with an enticing mélange of citrus, shiso, and basil.

We also liked some of the canned mocktails that incorporate these “spirits.” Though we wished the Calme-spiked Aplós Ume Spritz packed more pickled plum flavor, we found it to be pleasingly tart and savory yet also subtle and floral — perfect for a springtime picnic.

The fizzy Aplós Mandora Negroni, made with Ease, is sweet, citrusy, and juicy, but it’s only slightly bitter, so it doesn’t quite meet the Negroni brief. Some tasters thought it evoked Campari and a more summery, brighter take on a Negroni-esque beverage.

Ingredient highlights: Calme contains hemp extract, dandelion, and gentian root. Ease contains lion’s mane, dandelion, and gentian root.

ABV: Aplós lists the ABV as 0%.

Dietary notes: Calme and Ease are gluten-free, vegan, and sugar-free.

A slightly opaque, yellowish spirit, Aplós Arise surprised us even as it poured out of its odd, attractive but olive-oil-like bottle. Tasted neat, it hit us with citrus, a jalapeño-esque burn, and notes of green banana peel, fried sweet plantain, paint thinner, and sugar-free candy. Some tasters were put off by a lingering vitamin mouthfeel that reminded us of chewing chalky Flintstones vitamins.

Mixed with seltzer and a squeeze of lime, the drink opened up — the more off-flavors subsided, the floral notes expanded, and the drink melded into a heady, unusual, interesting experience as savor-able as any boozy cocktail. It is certainly the odd sibling in the Aplos trio. Arise comes in shareable 750-mL bottles.

The odd harmony of Arise finds a fitting home in Aplos Kola Fashioned, an earthy, cucumbery mocktail layered with warm spices and ginger that stings the nose. Some tasters were put off, finding the aroma reminiscent of mothballs. But tasters who liked it found it to be an interesting, if a bit perplexing, warming drink.

Ingredient highlights: Arise contains L-theanine, L-choline bitartrate, moringa extract, ginseng, vitamin D3, and vitamin B12.

ABV: Aplós lists its ABV as 0%.

Dietary notes: Arise is gluten-free, vegan, and sugar-free.