“When we both got sober, there wasn’t a place where we could hang out. They want to see live music, but they don’t want to be bumped into or to have drinks spilled on them,” says Payne, who quit drinking after serving in the U.S. “It’s for people who don’t want to be around people under the influence. Their goal is to create a place for sober and sober-curious people to hang out and to call their own. The longtime friends, both eight years sober, plan to open a sober bar called The Dry Mill. Today, the store can barely keep up with restocking its end cap filled with nearly 40 different nonalcoholic wines, beers and spirits.Īnd soon, thanks to the vision of David Payne and Colin Thomas, this growing market base won’t have to rely solely on monthly events at The Hills Market Downtown. “They said, ‘We have loads of money,’” Anderson recalls, “‘And we want to be fancy, and no one is offering this for us.’” Anderson listened. In 2020, Anderson launched a monthly Zero Proof Happy Hour, where she encountered a group of women who don’t drink for religious reasons. At The Hills Market Downtown, wine and cheese director Amanda Anderson thinks this customer base is ready for businesses to acknowledge them.ĭiscover more of Columbus dining: Subscribe to Monthly's weekly dining and drink newsletter, Copy & Taste This group, which includes those in recovery as well as those who abstain from alcohol for religious, health or lifestyle reasons, is turning heads for Columbus retailers and bars, alike. Recently, her efforts have started to gain traction.Īccording to Tennessee-based American Addiction Centers, 11.8 percent of the Columbus adult population does not drink alcohol. It became a passion project for Conrath: to make Strongwater-which now has six nonalcoholic options on the cocktail menu-a more inclusive place with refined zero-proof options. She examined the restaurant’s drink menu and realized that nonalcoholic options were unsophisticated and limited to soft drinks or mocktails made from fruit juices. All rights reserved.In 2015, a friend of Lauren Conrath, general manager of Strongwater Food & Spirits, was pregnant, and Conrath took notice of how many social activities revolve around alcohol. The Ohio Department of Taxation has put out a list of even more taxable and non-taxable items.Ĭopyright 2018 WOIO. Fruit or vegetable juice: If it’s made up of 50 percent or more of fruit or vegetable juice: Not taxed.Candy, chewing gum, breath mints: You can inject them as food: Not taxed.Non-alcoholic beer: If it’s less than 0.5 percent alcohol: Not taxed.If they charged you for those two pumps of pumpkin spice: Taxed If the business is nice enough put sugar or sweetener in for free: Not taxed. Coffee or tea with sugar/sweetener: It depends on if they charged you for it.Plain coffee or tea: If it is ordered to go, and plain, it is considered food: Not taxed.Bottled water with natural or artificial sweetener: Taxed.
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