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Ben Branson wanted a sophisticated and refreshing tall drink—hold the alcohol, please. But what he got instead was “a pink, fruity, childish, sickly-sweet mocktail.”
That was his lightning bolt moment.
“It was so terrible,” he said of the Shirley Temple-like concoction served to him at a fashionable London restaurant. “I thought maybe I could figure out a grown-up option.”
That was the beginning, back in 2013, of Branson’s journey into the nonalcoholic spirits category, which was so niche at the time that it was little more than a novelty.
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