Beer review: It’s tough to tell Athletic Brewing’s beer has no booze

Dry January would be much more of a sensation if it weren’t right in the middle of the year’s most important stretch of football. Taking the first 31 days of the year off from drinking is a rough option when the alternative is having a beer and watching the Rose Bowl or remaining couch-bound through the entirety of Super Wild Card Weekend ™.

It’s a smart idea, however. The last two weeks of December are typically reserved for stress eating and drinking enough to get you through family functions or the assembly of whichever high-involvement toy kitchen you stupidly bought your kid that year. A hard reset makes sense, even if it’s at odds with the football schedule.

In that spirit, today’s beer come from one of the fastest growing non-alcoholic breweries in the country. I first heard of Athletic Brewing Company a few years back, but didn’t really pay attention until I heard AEW wrestler Jox Moxley gush about it in a post-match press conference. I wouldn’t normally consider the a Cincinnati-born wrestler with a penchant for biting dudes in the ring as a tastemaker, but if Athletic was good enough to replace his post-match beer as part of his journey through sobriety, it must be pretty good.