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More than 300 mocktail and zero-proof recipes from Ryan Foley, publisher of BARTENDER® Magazine. Learn the flavor balance behind a great alcohol-free drink — not just the recipes.
Ryan Foley has spent his career around working bars. As publisher of BARTENDER® Magazine — the only magazine in the world written specifically for bartenders, in print since 1983 — he has spent decades tracking what actually gets ordered and what actually gets built behind the bar. A growing share of it now contains no alcohol at all.
Non-Alcoholic Drinks For Dummies is his answer to that shift: more than 300 recipes, plus the technique underneath them, for anyone who wants a genuinely good drink without the ethanol.
The collection runs from familiar drinks rebuilt without their base spirit to originals you won’t find elsewhere, alongside drinks from around the world and recipes contributed by well-known bars and bartenders. Every recipe includes a breakdown of its ingredients so you understand what each one is doing, not just how much to pour.
Most alcohol-free drinks fail for the same reason: remove the spirit and you remove the backbone, and nothing replaces it. This book covers flavor profiles and how to balance a drink — acid, sugar, bitterness, dilution, texture — so you can judge why a recipe works and start inventing your own alcohol-free creations rather than following someone else’s forever.
A short, practical guide to the equipment that earns its counter space: shakers, mixing tools, strainers, glassware and garnishes. Plus a survey of the non-alcoholic spirits, aperitifs and mixers worth buying — and what each is actually good for once it’s in the glass.
Alcohol-free drinking is not a 2020s invention. The book traces where these drinks came from and how the category arrived at its current moment, which is useful context whether you’re building a home bar or a bar program.
| Author | Ryan Foley, Publisher of BARTENDER® Magazine |
|---|---|
| Publisher | For Dummies (Wiley) |
| Publication date | August 19, 2025 |
| Print length | 240 pages |
| Language | English |
| Dimensions | 5.4 × 0.7 × 8.2 inches |
| Formats | Paperback and Kindle |
| ISBN-10 | 1394340923 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1394340927 |
More than 300, spanning zero-proof versions of familiar drinks, originals, international drinks and recipes from noted bars and bartenders.
Yes. It’s a For Dummies title, so it assumes no prior experience — but it teaches flavor balance rather than only listing recipes, so it stays useful well past the first few drinks.
No. Many recipes use ingredients you already have. The book covers which tools and zero-proof bottles are worth adding, and in what order, so you can build up gradually instead of buying a whole bar at once.
Ryan Foley is the publisher of BARTENDER® Magazine, founded in 1983 and the only magazine in the world written specifically for bartenders. He is also the author of Bartending For Dummies.
Bartending For Dummies covers the full craft, spirits included. Non-Alcoholic Drinks For Dummies is devoted entirely to alcohol-free drinking — the recipes, the ingredients and the technique specific to building a drink with no spirit in it.
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