
Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie dough whiskey.
When it comes to non-alcoholic beer, Athletic Brewing Company quickly established itself as the top option in a stale market. No longer would you have to subject yourself to O’Doul’s or Clausthaler if you were looking to replicate all the rituals of a cold one without (most) of the booze. Athletic’s NA offerings couldn’t fully lock down the taste of a great pale ale or Mexican lager, but they came closer than anyone else.