Loaded with effervescent kombucha, vegan wine, NA beer, and hard seltzers, consider this your ultimate summer drink guide!
Summer is here! If you’re anything like us, you love having a tasty sipper with you as you navigate all the fun activities this season has to offer. We love our options, both alcohol-free and boozy alike. From road trips with kombucha in hand and pool days sipping vegan wine to boat rides with a cooler of NA beers and park picnics featuring hard seltzer, we’ve got something for everyone to enjoy!
What Makes a Summer Drink Vegan?
If you’re vegan, chances are you’re doing the most when it comes to label reading and choosing cruelty-free food options. But what about your beverages? These need our special attention too. When it comes to your drinks, be sure to scan for non-vegan ingredients, with milk, honey, and even collagen being potential additives. But it isn’t only what goes into your drink, we also need to be mindful about what ingredients are used during processing. For example, some non-vegan wines use eggs, milk proteins, and even fish byproducts in the fining process. So when it comes to our functional drinks and boozy beverages, we always want to make sure they are indeed vegan.
Our Favorite Drinks for Summer 2023
Staying cool for the summer takes effort—do you feel us? But a refreshing beverage can do the trick. This season, we are sipping on a variety of summer drinks ranging from kombucha and NA beer to vegan wine and hard seltzers. We love our options, and we hope you do too!
Non-Alcoholic Options
With the rise of dry and damp lifestyles, the quest for tasty NA beverages is underway. If you’re looking to stay alert and sharp this summer, we’ve got you. Check out two delicious kombucha teas and an alcohol-free beer that you can sip all summer long.
Consider Health-Ade your go-to feel-good beverage for the summer. Containing gut-friendly probiotics and organic acids, this high-quality kombucha is the perfect belly boost for the season! Available in a wide array of effervescent sipper flavors, Health-Ade Kombuchas are organic, non-GMO, gluten-free, and totally vegan. Whether you have some summer travel plans up your sleeve or are planning to beach it all season long, follow your gut and bring Health-Ade Kombucha along for the ride.
Health-Ade has been brewing fermented, low-sugar drinks since 2012. And earlier this year the popular booch brand expanded its fizzy offerings with a line of aluminum cans in four fan-favorite flavors: Pink Lady Apple, Ginger Lemon, Passion Fruit-Tangerine, and Pomegranate. We plan on sipping these convenient canned kombuchas poolside all summer! Are you with us?
Enjoy these refreshing summer drinks on their own or pair Health-Ade Kombucha with your favorite road trip fuel, beach eats, and poolside snacks. No matter what you choose, Health-Ade was made for all of your summer adventures, so you really can’t go wrong. Cheers!
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Cheers to the warm weather! GT’s Living Foods has the perfect drink for your summer. Inspired by exotic fruits from Hawaii, Synergy Island Bliss is GT’s newest wellness drink—and it’s perfect for the season. Sip the tropical beverage and enjoy the passionfruit, guava, and orange flavors packed into this organic, raw, small-batch kombucha.
Handcrafted since 1995, GT’s Living Foods Kombucha was created on the belief that it could improve people’s lives and make the world a better place. Fast forward, GT’s remains hard at work adding new kombucha flavors and products to its impressive lineup. GT’s raw SYNERGY kombucha is alive and contains 18x more probiotics than its competitors. These gut-friendly bacteria are here to ensure you have an amazing summer with sustained energy and improved digestion.
Enjoy Island Bliss or one of the many other delicious SYNERGY flavors. We see you, Blood Orange, Tangerine Dream, and Elderberry Juniper formulations! Pack these probiotic teas in your summer picnic cooler or incorporate them into a better-for-you mocktail to sip around the campfire.
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Best Day Brewing Craft Non-Alcoholic Beer
Inspired by the ethos “Best Day Yet,” this NA beer brand is here to help you celebrate now and forever. We’ll cheers to that! Available in three vegan varieties, Best Day Brewing Craft Non-Alcoholic Beer was created for the moments that deserve great-tasting beer without the booze.
All of Best Day Brewing’s NA beers are vegan-friendly and made with natural ingredients. These brews are low in sugar and contain 55-70 calories per can. The brand’s Hazy IPA is a luscious, medium-body brew packed with a fruity aroma and juicy tropical hop flavors. Best Day’s Kölsch is a light, drinkable beer with toasty malt characters and a refreshing taste. And the NA West Coast IPA is a bold, hop-forward sipper with notes of fruity citrus and bitter pine. So grab a cooler and load it with a mix of these tasty NA brews. Your beer-loving friends will love it!
In addition to road trips, picnics, and beach days, Best Day Brewing Craft Non-Alcoholic Beers pair well with a variety of light and refreshing dishes. Think spicy bean tacos and BBQ tofu filets. Plus, NA beer is always a good addition to your go-to salty packaged snacks.
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Owned by married duo, Ashleigh and Trey Lockerbie, Better Booch was created out of their love for one another and their shared passion for using food and drinks as medicine. And now this ancient tonic is available to the masses. Better Booch Kombucha aka fermented tea is made with simple ingredients like tea, water, sugar, and a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (a scoby).
Better Booch is here to uncomplicate things by making gut-balancing, fermented foods accessible and outright delicious. So whether you’re reaching for a cold kombucha as a hangover cure or as a means of getting some electrolytes, probiotics, and vitamins, Better Booch has your back. Find this probiotic elixir in a variety of flavors like Morning Glory (a mixture of peach and black tea) and Ginger Boost (containing ginger, lemongrass, and mint).
As you can imagine, Better Booch Kombucha is a truly refreshing drink for the summer! No matter what flavor you fall in love with, be sure to pair it with other gut-friendly eats. Think fruit salad at the pool, loaded sandwiches at the beach, and grilled veggies on your patio.
Bonus: Use promo code VEGOUT10 for 10% off your entire purchase!
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RationAle Brewing Non-Alcoholic Craft Beer
What started off as a conversation surrounding moderating alcohol consumption between founder Jamie Fay and his family and friends, later evolved into the innovative brand RationAle Brewing. Founded in 2021 by Jamie Fay and Wendy Picket, this NA brewing co. features various small-batch, craft beers for those looking to live a fun, full, and bold life. The tasty unleaded brews allow customers to drink on their own terms and moderate in whatever way feels right to them.
Using a proprietary distillation technology, the alcohol is removed from the brewed beer with minimal effects on its integrity and overall quality. Hear, hear! RationAle Brewing features four “Brews without the Booze” to fall in love with. The Citrus Hazy IPA is a grapefruit-forward brew featuring a bitter bite of citrus and hops. The Mexican Lager is a NA take on a classic brew. This one offers a crisp and refreshing flavor to quench your thirst. The West Coast IPA brings bitter hops balanced by notes of citrus and pine, while the New England IPA drinks like a juicy, hazy IPA with notes of tropical fruit. Cheers to NA beer variety!
While these alcohol-removed beers sound great paired with all the traditional summer activities, we’ve got a very specific idea in mind for maximum enjoyment. Here’s your sign to pack up a cooler and bring these non-alcoholic craft beers to the nearest outdoor drive-in movie theater. Fresh air, movies, beer, and popcorn have never sounded so good!
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If you ask us, watermelon is the quintessential fruit of the summer. Are you with us? And when it comes to watermelon-infused summer beverages … we’ve just gotta have it! Through harnessing the hydrating power of fresh watermelons, Mela Water has the hookup on bold, crisp watermelon water made with real fruit. Using watermelons sourced from the most exotic locations, Mela Water Watermelon Water is seriously so fresh, hydrating, and delicious.
Available in four refreshing flavors, it’s time to let Mela Water add some variety to your warm-weather hydration plans. This summer, we’re sipping the brand’s Original Watermelon Mela Water, but let us not forget about Passionfruit, Pineapple, and Ginger varieties. All variations are gluten-free, Non-GMO Project Verified, and of course vegan. We love to see it!
Containing electrolytes and antioxidants, bring these hydrating sippers along on your summer road trips to visit family, enjoy amusement parks, and take destination hikes. Pair them with your favorite travel snacks, picnic fare, and BBQ favorites.
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Boozy Beverages
For those who enjoy a little buzz during the summer months, we are here for that as well! After all, the warm weather is a great reason to celebrate! You’re going to want to add these vegan-friendly wines and delightful hard seltzers to your summertime activities ASAP. And as always, please drink responsibly.
To add a premium hard seltzer to the market, Amy Walberg pioneered the category and created PRESS. Made with better-for-you ingredients, this woman-owned company now offers a variety of creative flavor combinations to fall in love with. This summer, be sure to fill a cooler with one of the brand’s tasty variety packs.
Inspired by global flavor combinations, the brand’s new Synergy variety pack includes four delightful flavor combos including Peach Rosemary, Dragon Fruit Lotus, Guava Rhubarb, and Watermelon Sea Salt. But the fun doesn’t stop there, both the Signature and Select variety packs are full of delicious, flavorful sippers made with real fruits and spices. We’ll never forget about the company’s original flavor, Pomegranate Ginger, which is still available for your enjoyment.
These tasty hard seltzers were made for beach days, boat rides, campfires, or whatever kind of summer fun you’re into. And each can pairs well with all your seasonal eats. From summer snacks to BBQ dinners, there’s a complementary Press Hard Seltzer with your name on it.
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Crafting South Africa’s premier sparkling wine known as Cap Classique, founder Graham Beck, has the key to delicious bubbles. These world-class, sparkling vinos are a summertime must! Graham Beck’s collection of summertime-friendly sparkling wines includes a wide array of bubbles. Ranging from Ultra Brut to Pinot Noir Rosé, there is something for everyone.
Not sure where to start? You can never go wrong with the brand’s Brut Rosé. Crafted with a mix of hand-picked Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes, the pink-hued sipper was a pioneering first for South Africa. This award-winning Cap Classique contains notes of fresh berries along with a rich, creamy complexity with every sip. It’s seriously so refreshing!
We love pairing these vegan-friendly bubbles with good friends and day-to-day celebrations! This sparkling wine goes well with lighter fare like chopped fruit, plant-based charcuterie boards, fresh summer salads, and tasty desserts.
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Can’t decide between a craft beer, boozy kombucha, or hard seltzer? You don’t have to! Grab a can of Willie’s Superbrew. This creative recipe brings the perfect combination of your favorite go-to beverages into one tasty can. The “beyond beer” brand recently relaunched its award-winning, bold Superbrews, and we are here for it! Now, with a new look and leadership team, Willie’s is back in action and featuring its two original, real-fruit recipes.
Ready to get sipping? Choose between Willie’s Superbrew Juicy Tangy Zesty, a tasty brew containing ginger, lemon, and a dash of turmeric, or Juicy Mango Tango, a superfruit hard seltzer made with tropical mango and passionfruit. But in reality, who says you need to choose? This summer is more about “and” and less about “or.” That’s why we love having it all with Willie’s Superbrew!
So raise a can and cheers to these gluten-free, vegan hard brews. Crafted with the perfect ABV, Willie’s Superbrews pair well with picnic sandwiches, patio grilled pizza, and everything in between. It’s the perfect summer drink for your best warm weather moments and memories.
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Looking for a fun summer beverage with a purpose? Here’s your sign to check out The Hidden Sea. This philanthropic brand not only has delicious, vegan-friendly wine, but it’s doing its part to help improve the planet. In partnership with the ReSea Project, The Hidden Sea is cleaning up our oceans. By drinking one bottle of The Hidden Sea wine, the brand will remove the equivalent of 10 single-use plastic bottles from the ocean and recycle them. With the help of wine-sipping consumers, the brand aims to remove one billion plastic bottles from our oceans by 2030!
Drink delicious wine and clean up the ocean—sounds like a win-win, right? The Hidden Sea is all about empowering its fans to make change happen and become part of something bigger than themselves. The environmentally friendly wine brand’s vineyards are located on The Limestone Coast of Australia, which was once home to a thriving marine ecosystem and completely covered by water.
Sip with purpose this summer! The Hidden Sea features three vino varieties. The brand’s chardonnay brings notes of white nectarine and lemon peel complemented by toasty oak. This white wine pairs well with creamy vegan pasta dishes. The brand’s red blend is a bright, crimson red with notes of juicy berry, stone fruit, and spice. Pair this with richer meals like meaty mushroom recipes. And the brand’s rosé has a bright, yet luscious, palate with a zesty finish and pairs well with vegan flatbreads and appetizer platters.
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