Mindful drinking is in the news. Club Soda turns up in newspapers and magazines, on the TV and on the radio, because we think mindful drinking is for everyone – and so we want to tell people about it.
These are all our media appearances so far this year and some blogs that have mentioned us. There are links to previous years’ coverage at the end (2018, 2017 and 2016 and before). And you can find all Club Soda research reports here. If we’ve missed anything, let us know. Just email jussi@joinclubsoda.co.uk.
Newspapers & Magazines
16 October 2019 The Drinks Business: Why sommeliers need to learn about non-alcoholic alternatives to wine
15 October 2019 Independent Online: SA’s first alcoholic-free festival is here
15 October 2019 The Book of Man: The Rise of Mindful Drinking
October 2019 British Institute of Innkeeping News: Viewpoint – Laura Willoughby
7 October 2019 The Morning Advertiser: Pubs must promote benefits to sell low-and-no alcohol beer
3 October 2019 Chicago Tribune: ‘Sometimes you just don’t need to get tipsy.’ Millennials are trying to drink less, and bars and booze makers are getting on the wagon with spirit-free cocktails
2 October 2019 Daily Star: Freshers swap booze for knitting and milkshakes as students go sober
1 October 2019 Stylist: Sober October: “Why quitting alcohol was the best decision I ever made”
12 September 2019 Investors Chronicle: Putting the bottle down
September 2019 Diva Magazine: Sober curious
3 September 2019 Independent: Will Britain stay boozy now that the young are drinking less alcohol?
25 August 2019 Daily Star: Young revellers moan they have to drink booze as Leeds Festival runs out of coke
20 August 2019 Metro: Baby boomers are keeping booze Britain afloat — but the young are drinking less
10 August 2019 kk: Hørt om mindful drinking? [ Heard of mindful drinking?]
4 August 2019 Helsingin Sanomat: Krapula-ahdistukseen kyllästyneet nuoret julistavat sanomaansa sosiaalisessa mediassa: Perinteinen raittiusliike sai haastajan ”kokeilevasta alkoholittomuudesta” [Tired of hangover anxiety, young people share the word on social media: traditional sobriety challenged by “sober curious”]
27 July 2019 Basildon Canvey Southend Echo: Five tips to ditch the booze (or at least cut down) for a sober summer
26 July 2019 Braintree and Witham Times: Five tips to ditch the booze (or at least cut down) for a sober summer
25 July 2019 Evening Standard: How to go ‘clean partying’ when the sun is shining
23 July 2019 The Financial Times: Why work events are becoming a sober experience
22 July 2019 The Drinks Business: The owner of UK brewery Cloudwater is developing a low-calorie soda brand
19 July 2019 Lancashire Post: Here is how to avoid a hangover in the heat and enjoy an alcohol-free summer
19 July 2019 Leyland Guardian: Here is how to avoid a hangover in the heat and enjoy an alcohol-free summer
19 July 2019 Lytham St Annes Express: Here is how to avoid a hangover in the heat and enjoy an alcohol-free summer
18 July 2019 Healthista: Best mocktails and non-alcoholic drinks with the glam factor
17 July 2019 RTE: Ditch the drink: How to stay alcohol-free this summer in Ireland
17 July 2019 Beverage Business World: Club Soda: ‘It was still the crap coke and lemonade’
17 July 2019 Hackney Gazette: Drink it in! Club Soda’s booze-free festival is back
11 July 2019 Balance: Club Soda Summer Mindful Drinking Festival: The season of the botanical spirits
10 July 2019 The Morning Advertiser: Supermarket to take over pub with low-alcohol options
8 July 2019 Drinkpreneur: 13 Alcohol-Free Spirits At Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival
5 July 2019 Londonist: The Best Beer Festivals In London: July 2019
July 2019 BarLifeUK: No-Alcohol Brands on Show at London Mindful Drinking Festival
2 July 2019 360 Grados Press: El ‘teetotalismo’ como estilo de vida [‘Teetotalism’ as a way of life]
27 June 2019 Evening Standard: How to have a booze-free summer
Summer 2019 Imbibe: Making zero the hero
25 June StreetZine: Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival
July 2019 The Psychologist: Finding moderation online
21 June 2019 The Sports Edit: The Healthy Hedonist’s guide to mindful drinking
16 June 2019 Psychreg: Drink Responsibly: Hangovers Steal Two weeks of Your Summer
11 June 2019 London TV: Glasto-who? The nation’s love of gin, beer and cats sparks steep rise in demand for boutique festivals
4 June 2019 SheerLuxe: How to drink less this summer
29 May 2019 Beverage Business World: Non-alcohol trend is ‘cross generational’
20 May 2019 Morning Advertiser: The boom of alcohol-free is a sticking trend
20 May 2019 Morning Advertiser: Low and No: How to Sell
20 May 2019 Morning Advertiser: Low and no: what to stock
May 2019 Essentially Catering: Mindful drinking goes digital [page 5]
4 May 2019 The Daily Mirror: Five easy ways to bin the booze — from tracking apps to alcohol-free G&Ts
29 April 2019 Gay Star News: LGBTI and sober? Here’s how you can socialize on the scene without alcohol
29 April 2019 Ipswich Star: Brewer helps launch of alcohol-free pub for Alzheimer’s patients to combat ‘sundowning’
29 April 2019 Drinks Retailing News: Lindeman’s joins no/low alcohol category
28 April 2019 The Times: Pubs tap into healthy trend for alcohol-free beer
28 April 2019 The Sun: GLEE-TOTAL Alcohol-free beer being rolled out on TAP across Britain to quench growing thirst of ‘dry drinkers’
April 2019 Blue Wings: Mocktails, please [page 15]
15 April 2019 The Daily Mail: The tipple that claims it’s booze free but not buzz free
12 April 2019 The Morning Advertiser: Club Soda and Budweiser to track drinking habits
10 April 2019 just-drinks: Anheuser-Busch InBev funds digital tool to help UK hospitality problem drinkers
10 April 2019 Venue Insight: Club Soda Announces Exciting Partnership With Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I to Create the UK’s First Digital Programme Around Mindful Drinking
9 April 2019 Inapub: Bud UK and Club Soda aim to help barstaff change their drinking habits
9 April 2019 Caterer Licensee Hotelier News: Club Soda Announces Partnership With Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I To Create Digital Programme Around Mindful Drinking
March/April 2019 Speciality Food Magazine: What’s new in drinks?
29 March 2019 Swindon Advertiser: Group of mindful drinkers help socialise sober in Swindon [Also appeared in This is Wiltshire]
14 March 2019 Virgin: Drinking for the taste, not to escape from life
13 March 2019 Sheerluxe: Where To Go In London For A Non-Boozy Night Out
8 March 2019 The Morning Advertiser: International Women’s Day – The women who lead in the on-trade
1 March 2019 The Temper: The Top 19 Sober Communities Beyond Traditional AA
28 February 2019 Gasholder: Mindful Drinking: Q&A with Club Soda’s Laura Willoughby MBE
28 February 2019 Gasholder: Mindful Drinking: a brief guide to alcohol-free
1 February 2019 Refinery29: How To Become A One-Drink Wonder
28 January 2019 The Drinks Business: How to go alcohol free when you work in the drinks industry
28 January 2019 The Morning Advertiser: Why Dry January is working for me
27 January 2019 The Business Post: No booze, please, we’re Irish
16 January 2019 The Guide Liverpool: Things You’ll Only Know If You’re Halfway Through Dry January [also on Xpose.ie]
15 January 2019 The Morning Advertiser: How can publicans look after their wellbeing?
14 January 2019 My Body+Soul: 15 ways to drink smarter if you have boozy-weekend regret
11 January 2019 Elle: Things to do in London this weekend
11 January 2019 East London and West Essex Guardian: What’s on in East London this weekend
11 January 2019 Conde Nast Traveler: How Dry January became a thing around the world
11 January 2019 Skint London: Top Skint Picks for the Weekend
11 January 2019 Campaign Live: Booming alcohol-free beer market jumps aboard healthy living bandwagon
10 January 2019 TimeOut London: Are Londoners really drinking less?
10 January 2019 Country and Town House: What’s On? Re:Solutions Festival
10 January 2019 City Matters: What’s on around the City of London this month
10 January 2019 SheerLuxe: What to do this weekend
10 January 2019 Londonist: Things to do this Weekend in London
10 January 2019 Bustle: 5 Ways Dry January Changes Your Brain, According To Science
9 January 2019 Urban Intention: Stick to being alcohol free this January with a mindfulness drinking festival!
9 January 2019 London on the Inside: Mindful Drinking Festival – What’s On
8 January 2019 Matador Network: The 6 best alcohol-free trips to take to kickstart your new year
8 January 2019 Belfast Telegraph: Sobriety is the new cool – and here’s the reason
8 January 2019 TimeOut London: Six totally free things to do in London this week
8 January 2019 TimeOut London: Things to do in London this weekend
7 January 2019 NBC News: Tend to get too happy at happy hour? Consider mindful drinking
7 January 2019 Matador Network: Where to go to expand your mindfulness in 2019
7 January 2019 Conde Nast Traveller: 10 cool things to do in London this weekend
7 January 2019 Cosmopolitan: Getting Sober Curious Is the New Dry January
7 January 2019 The Malestorm: The Weekly EDIT – Who’s having a Dry Veganuary?
5 January 2019 Londonist: Free and Cheap London Events This Week
5 January 2019 London North Western Railway: Top Ten Things to Do/London
4 January 2019 SheerLuxe: Doing Dry January? You need to read this
3 January 2019 Drinks Retailing News: Alcohol-free spirit sector sees new launch for Dry January
1 January 2019 The Week: Dry January: what is it and is it actually worth it?
1 January 2019 The Resident: 15 sober things to do during Dry January in London
1 January 2019 Good Web Guide: Dry January
1 January 2019 The Drinks Business: Top 10 Food Trends for 2019
TV, Radio & Podcasts
8 October 2019 Interpreting Wine Podcast: Episode 301 – Laura Willoughby, Club Soda, Mindful Drinking series (1 of 5)
1 October 2019 BBC Radio 5 Live: 5 Live Breakfast Your Call
5 September 2019 Her Balanced Business Podcast: Purpose, Profit & Sobriety in Business with MBE Laura Willoughby – listen on Spotify; on ApplePodcasts
31 July 2019 BBC 3 Counties Radio
31 July 2019 The Law Society podcast: Calling time on booze culture
19 July 2019 Voice of Islam Radio
16 July 2019 East London Radio: Bread and Butter Show with Michaela Pontiki
13 July 2019 BBC Radio Kent: Weekend with Anna Louise
13 July 2019 BBC Radio London: Carrie and David Grant Show
10 July 2019 BBC Radio London
10 July 2019 BBC Radio Three Counties
10 June 2019 BBC Radio 5 Live: Drivetime
16 May 2019 BBC Radio London: Vanessa Feltz show
16 May 2019 BBC Radio Essex
3 May 2019 BBC Radio Solent: Breakfast Programme
29 April 2019 Local BBC radio stations: Merseyside, Hereford and Worcester, Cambridge, Devon, Lincolnshire, York, Wales, Nottinghamshire, Kent, Berkshire.
9 April 2019 BBC World TV News
7 March 2019 The Food Talk Show: On the wagon
6 February 2019 Northern Public Radio and NPR Illinois: In Dry January, high demand for low-alcohol drinks
1 February 2019 BBC Radio Scotland: The Stephen Jardine Programme
January 2019 The Pubcast: Episode 2 – Drink up!
26 January 2019 BBC Radio 5 Live: Stephen Nolan
12 January 2019 BBC Radio London: Carrie and David Grant Breakfast Show
12 January 2019 Heart FM: Breakfast Show with JK & Kelly Brook
11 January 2019 BBC Radio London: Robert Elms Show
10 January 2019 Fermentation Beer & Brewing Radio: Alcohol Free Special podcast
Blogs etc
8 October 2019 Real Kombucha: Sober dating? These places serve a range of amazing non-alcoholic drinks
1 October 2019 Real Kombucha: Shani’s Sober Diaries, Pt 3: Sober October
23 September 2019 Girl & Tonic: Thoughts on how to make sober friends (and how to find them!)
18 September 2019 Love British Food: Say Hello to No and Low
16 September 2019 Prettygreentea: Ellie, Founder Of Caleno Is On A Mission To Make “Not Drinking” Fun
13 September 2019 Big Society Capital: Connecting research and ventures to improve mental health
26 July 2019 Spitalfields: Mindful Drinking Festival Spitalfields 2019
25 July 2019 Silverbird: Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival
24 July 2019 Hel’s Angels: Mindful Drinking
21 July 2019 Sober is Fun: Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival
23 June 2019 PinkCirrus: Mindful Drinking Festival
June 2019 Patchwork: How to Take Care of Your Non-Drinking Wedding Guests
11 June 2019 Drinks International: For low-no read low-yes
10 March 2019 Here East: #EastLondonInnovators with Club Soda
4 April 2019 Swiping in the City xo: Dating sober with Laura Willoughby from Club Soda
10 February 2019 Fermentation Online: Club Soda – Mindful Drinking Festival
31 January 2019 Voice of Calm – Awesome without Alcohol: 10 Best Alcohol Free Drinks
17 January 2019 Katie May: Alcohol free alternatives for Dry January
14 January 2019 Be Sober: Review of the Mindful Drinking Festival by Club Soda
12 January 2019 Pete Brown: My Guide to Low and No Alcohol Beers at the Mindful Drinking Festival
11 January 2019 Master of Malt: The Nightcap: 11 January – Non-alcoholic beer pioneer Adnams will be at the Mindful Drinking Festival
8 January 2019 Muddy Stilettos: Are you sober curious?
4 January 2019 Smart Beer Club: Dry January’s box
2 January 2019 Adnams: Not your usual festival
Articles and Guest Blogs We’ve Written
24 September 2019 Drink Coach blog: Mindful Drinking & Mindfulness
August 2019 SCPN: Mindful Drinking
8 July 2019 Alcohol Change: I don’t fancy alcohol – but what can I drink instead?
July 2019 Blenheim: What can I drink instead?
May 2019 Alcohol Change: Alcohol-free at the pub
