Athletic Brewing

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<p class="p1">Athletic Brewing is introducing Americans to the idea that drinking good beer doesn’t have to mean drinking alcohol. Founded in 2017, the brewery has developed proprietary methods to make nonalcoholic beer that’s hard to distinguish from the “real” thing. That’s key to helping customers live better lives, given the many health complications associated with heavy alcohol use. The 27th-largest craft brewery in the U.S. in 2021 (out of around 9,000), it’s on track to crack the top 20 this year—and it holds a 54% share of the craft “NA” beer market, according to Nielsen. Its success has been instrumental in turning the formerly sleepy category into one of the fastest-growing in beer. The brand, whose offerings include NA versions of typically high-alcohol beers like IPAs, has attracted the likes of chef David Chang and NFL star J.J. Watt; they both invested in the company’s $50 million Series C in 2021, which helped fund a new 150,000-square-foot brewery—its third—that opened this summer in Milford, Conn.</p>

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