Sober Is The New Cool: Will Mindful Drinking Overtake Alcohol?

Entrepreneurs looking to enter the market have an opportunity to re-write the rules. This means focusing on the end consumer — marketing and delivering direct to her. It also means creating better beverages and new spaces/contexts for drinking. Today’s customer wants something that’s enjoyable, conscionable, and just a bit healthier.

With the Brooklyn-based Kin, 35-year-old Batchelor is aiming to create a new category she calls "euphorics" and, in the process, to bring the wellness trend into the bar scene. Her timing is smart: Nearly half of regular wine drinkers, including two-thirds of Millennials, say they're trying to drink less alcohol, mostly for health reasons, accordin... See more

The UK’s largest recent study of drinking behaviours showed in 2019, 16-to-25-year-olds were the most likely to be teetotal, with 26% not drinking, compared to the least likely generation (55-to-74-year-olds), 15% of whom didn’t drink.