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Athletic Brewing Co

Disciplines:
entrepreneurship
manufacturing/brewing
retail/non-alcoholic beverages
wellbeing/health culture

Summary

American non-alcoholic craft beer company founded by Bill Shufelt and John Walker in 2017 — which became the most commercially successful non-alcoholic beer brand in the US — capitalizing on the sober-curious and alcohol-reduction movements.

Core Contribution

Built the most successful non-alcoholic craft beer brand by focusing on quality and the active-lifestyle consumer rather than the recovering alcoholic — making alcohol-free beer socially acceptable and even desirable for the fitness-conscious audience — and demonstrated that the NA beer market was far larger than previously assumed.

Historical Influences

Craft beer tradition Bill Shufelt

Intellectual Lineage

American Craft Beer CultureNon-Alcoholic Beverage MarketSober-Curious Movement

Contemporaries & Peers

Heineken 0.0Budweiser ZeroGruvi

Minds Influenced

Non-alcoholic beer marketSober-curious lifestyleMW sponsor ecosystem

Intellectual Posterity

Athletic BrewingSober-curious beer market

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