Non-alcoholic mode

Zero-proof drinking is a first-class citizen in Riffed, not a filter bolted on at the end. The catalog carries real non-alcoholic drinks, N/A spirits, teas, and shrubs as proper ingredients with their own flavor profiles — and a mode that reorients the whole app around them.

N/A mode

Flip it on in Settings → Non-Alcoholic. Browsing and search now lead with non-alcoholic drinks and with drinks that convert well — and the ingredient catalog hides the spirits aisle when you're picking what to work with. Everything else about the app works the same: charts, riffing, your bar, your palate.

Strict mode

N/A mode prioritizes; strict mode excludes. With it on, alcoholic drinks don't surface at all. Use it when "mostly zero-proof" isn't the assignment.

The bitters question

A dash of Angostura is technically a trace of alcohol — which is why a bitters-laced drink isn't strictly zero-proof, and why every N/A menu on earth quietly argues about it. Riffed doesn't decide for you: there's a toggle for whether bitters count as acceptable in your N/A world. It defaults to allowing them; strict abstainers can turn it off.

Converting a drink

Plenty of classics convert beautifully, and Riffed knows which ones:

• Drinks that convert cleanly carry an "N/A Ready" badge when you're browsing in N/A mode.
• On any alcoholic drink, "Make N/A" proposes a full conversion — each spirit mapped to its best zero-proof substitute, with an honest difficulty read (Easy / Moderate / Difficult) and a before-and-after flavor chart so you can see exactly what the conversion keeps and what it trades away.
• Confirming hands you the converted drink in the riff editor, where it's yours to adjust like anything else. It saves as its own drink, linked to the original.

Your N/A bar

Stock N/A spirits, teas, syrups, and shrubs in your bar like any other bottle — makeability scoring works identically, so "what can I make tonight?" has a real zero-proof answer too.