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SHOW QUOTES

“In the UK, it's 20 quid a bottle. I've always thought about it like some people get paid £20 quid an hour. So you know, if someone's going to give you an hour of their life, bloody, make it good if they're drinking your product, and I honestly believe in that.”

“So you give them two tonnes of raspberry crumble because you're pulling out 90% of the water weight, but you've got 20 tons of flavour.”

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SHOW NOTES

All the way from Australia, in this episode, I got to chat with the inspired mind behind the always unique and never boring NON World Wines. Aaron Trotman is equal parts funny and sincere, and this interview was a pure joy.

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WE CHAT ABOUT

Aaron's story

Amazing flavour combinations

A late-found love of food

International seasonality

Stewed cherry & coffee

Replicating red wine

Made for food?

Aaron, ADHD & alcohol

Hospitality (it's in the name)

Australia, the UK & the US

The NON stopper!

Online and on-trade

What's next for NON?

Parenting while building a brand

The BBQ-Q (& AF draught in Aus)

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TRY NON - uk.non.world // @non.world

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WE ALSO TALK ABOUT:

Botivo*

Heaps Normal

Muri

Sylva

Guinness 0.0*

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BEST EPISODES TO CHECK OUT NEXT

#39 Bolle: The only double-fermented alcohol-free sparkling wine

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SHOW QUOTES

“I get emails every week from people saying, oh, ‘I'd love to come and judge, I'd love to learn a bit more about these drinks’. Whilst we’re keen on educating and teaching people. they have to come to us already having some background and some proof that they are making an effort and learning and have experience with these drinks.”

“Progression of the AF space is really interesting. I think if we'd done this competition even four years ago (if there were enough drinks out there then to do this), I think the drinks that would have scored really well then would now be surpassed by almost everything that's coming out now.”

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This episode was a pure delight as I got to hear all about the entire judging process for the World Alcohol-Free Awards – the WAFAs!

Chris and Chrissie don’t hold anything back, making this one not to be missed!

WE CHAT ABOUT

0:35 The WAFAs story

6:37 Categories!

9:21 Who can enter the WAFAs?

13:09 How many entries did you have?

15:32 New & unique drinks

22:25 Judging

30:44 Progression

34:44 Trophy winners

42:54 WAFAs 2025 (+best range winner)

46:00 Going international

49:34 AF is not a zero-sum game

54:26 How to enter for 2025

56:26 The BBQ-Q

VISIT WAFA - WORLDAFAWARDS.COM / @WORLDAFAWARDS

WE ALSO TALK ABOUT:

Free Spirit

Best beer: Ramon

Best spirit: Night Orient

Best halal drink: ASDA

Best cocktail: Bloody Drinks

Best alcohol-free range: Jukes

Best organic: Kombustache

Best wine: Edenvale

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SHOW QUOTES
“We work with a 16th-generation distillery business. We said to them look, how low can we go before we start to lose the full taste experience? So the warm, the mouthfeel, the bite, everything else which you expect from a full-strength gin. And they said 25%.”

“When we designed the product in the first instance, we wanted to go with taste, texture, and tenacity over anything else.”

SHOW NOTES
Director of Session London Dry Gin from Spirit of Bermondsey, Brad Crompton, takes us through the story of their 25% sessionable gin spirit as we discuss where mid-range beverages sit in the modern drinkers' schedule.

WE CHAT ABOUT
- Coming up...
- Session's story
- Brad's story
- Imbibe & the public response
- Why 25%
- Winning awards
- How does it taste?
- Naming Session
- Educating bars & consumers about mid-strength drinks
- Why people are drinking it
- The antidote to zebra-striping
- Changing the nation's cocktail menus
- Questions about using mid-strength drinks
- Traffic light system
- Who is a Session drinker?
- Increasing the range
- The BBQ-Q

AND ALSO ABOUT
Session magazine
Almave*
6Percent
Gen!us*
Small Beer*
Botivo*
Nu Wave*

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SHOW QUOTES
"Today we're doing things a bit differently."

"Only 8% of the conversations were about using these drinks to help with sobriety or recovery."

SHOW NOTES
In this episode, I take a look at a report from Commetric analysing 10,000 Reddit conversations about low/no drinks.

• Doing things differently
• Drink types
• Social events
• Big Vs small brands
• Drink qualities
• Personality types
• What it all means

BEST EPISODES TO CHECK OUT NEXT
#37 You don't need a sad story
#36 Launching a brand-new non-alcoholic cider

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SHOW QUOTES:
“If you don't like wine, you may not like our product; in fact, you probably won't like our product.

“You know we're not trying to preach; we're not trying to tell people not to drink alcohol. I drink alcohol, everybody in my company drinks alcohol, but there are times and there are places and there are people that can't, and it's about choice and inclusivity."

“Non-alcoholic wine it's a different product than normal wine, right? Just like non-alcoholic beer is a different product than normal beer. And so you have to think about the problem differently.”

WE CHAT ABOUT:
- Gary's story
- Roberto's story
- A more meaningful career
- Bolle's drinks
- Made for wine drinkers
- Expectations of non-alc wine
- Replacing the ritual
- Mixed reactions
- Why low/no exists
- Wine bars
- Double fermentation technique
- More wines to come
- Finding Bolle
- Magnum bottling nightmare
- BBQ-Q
- What's the point?

TRY BOLLE: BOLLEDRINKS.COM / @BOLLEDRINKS

WE ALSO TALK ABOUT:
Gary on LinkedIn
Lucky Saint*
Athletic Brewing*
CleanCo*

BEST EPISODES TO CHECK OUT NEXT:
#34 Embracing Moderation: Crafting a 6% Wine
#9 Dealcoholised Vs Alcohol-Free Wine Making with Wednesday's Domaine

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SHOW QUOTES

“If 80% of your lifestyle is healthy, you can accommodate a 20% indulgence, which may be your cream cakes, it may be a glass of wine, it may be whatever. It's unfortunately when you tip it over and you suddenly think you'll do 20% healthy, and you expect a result because the body doesn't work that way.”

“We do have stockists who really believe in what we’re trying to do. They share the same values and they like the drinks.”

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MoodyBrew is a functional beverage range made for adults with the tagline “Not alcoholic, but not soft”.

In this episode, I speak to husband-and-wife co-founders Alli and Rob Noel about the journey that led them to create this four-strong range of drinks, including Smoke, Ginger, Sunny, and Velvet.

Hear how Alli’s cancer diagnosis led them both to reassess the power of the nutrients we put in our body and how they helped her fight her way to the other side.

Created to both nourish the body and delight the tastebuds, MoodyBrew’s range is designed to replace specific moments from whiskey drinking to red wine.

Alli is also a regular contributor to Low No Drinker Magazine, and we discuss how her scientific background lends itself to measured articles designed to help those who want to cut back on alcohol without insisting that they give it up for good.

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We also talk about:
Guinness 0.0*
The Alcohol-Free Drinks Company
Wise bartender

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BEST EPISODES TO CHECK OUT NEXT

#27 Meeting the Botanist: a tea-infused 'Function-Ale'

#7 The powerful journey of mushroom magic in alcohol-free brewing.

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SHOW QUOTES

“You do not need a sad story to decide that you want to start to look at your relationship with alcohol.”

“It was the, you know, two or three days where I just felt subpar. I was operating at 60% capacity"

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It's easy to compare ourselves with others in all walks of life but it's very rarely helpful.

I used to compare myself to others in the low/no space and feel like a fraud, like I didn't belong.

Why? Because I didn't stop drinking as a result of addiction, I didn't hit rock bottom and then claw my way out; I'm not an alcoholic, and I never joined a program.

I just decided that alcohol wasn't the right choice for me, and that made me feel like my choice wasn't worth sharing as much as others.

But I was wrong.

In this week's solocast (new word of the week), I'm sharing my story so that you know it's perfectly ok to share yours.

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BEST EPISODES TO CHECK OUT NEXT
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#19 You don't have to be an alcoholic to want to rethink your drinking

#22 The Moderating Middle

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QUOTES
“It's going to be cooler to buy a non-alcoholic drink than an alcoholic drink sooner rather than later.”

“You know it's fascinating and I think that's why I cannot see this being anything other than the most important change to the drinks landscape in my lifetime, for sure.”

NOTES
Pivoting from a successful consultancy career to launching a game-changing alcohol-free cider is no easy task, but that’s just what Chance Clean Cider founder John Logue has done.

In this conversation, he tells me exactly what that two-year journey has involved.

In a really candid and open conversation, John takes us from ideation to creation and shares how the network of low/no-&-light industry professionals he’s built along the way from working with non-alcoholic brands like Lucky Saint, Crossip and Rekorderlig has played an essential role in supporting his dream.

From labelling issues to self-doubt, John’s experienced it all, but his passion for buoying an often-neglected sector of low/no has kept him going and led him to create a wonderful and much-needed drink.

With big plans for the next phase of Chance Clean Cider, John shares how his passion for music and festivals will impact the trajectory of the brand and how he’s focusing on on-premises sales as a route to reaching drinkers like him who love a cold, crisp, (& sustainable) cider made with England’s finest apples.

TRY CHANCE CLEAN CIDER

We also talk about:
Punk AF*
Guinness 0.0*
Big Drop*
Lucky Saint*
Rebuttal:Don't believe the hype

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Best episode to check out next -
#15 Crossip: The zero-strength spirit made for full-strength drinkers

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