🍻 5 dark NA beers for fall vibes, pt. 1

The Friday Five (the first NA stout / porter issue)

Fall is (almost) here! 🎃 🍻 🍁 ⚡️

🎶 So many dark NA beers on the wall, so many dark NA beers 🎼

This piece is adapted from a post on the ZPN blog in October 2023 and contains some updates from members of the non-alc ecosystem / dry economy. The next issue will contain even more! 🍻

Craft non-alcoholic beer is having a moment. Once upon a (recent) time, all you could find was O’Doul’s. Now, craft NA is everywhere. Here’s a look at some of the best non-alc dark brews (ports, stouts, seasonals) around for those crisp, cozy fall vibes.

Narrowing things down was a practically impossible task. Not even four to five years ago, our list would have been much, much shorter. And yes, O’Doul’s gets its fair share of grief, but that little beer that could, in fact, well, did. It was the only option available in the USA for almost 30 years until a small craft brewery in Connecticut launched in 2017. Athletic Brewing — maybe you’ve heard of it?

Since then, NA beer is widely available across the coun…