Bark & Bitter

Stay Bitter or Do Better™
🏆 Award-Winning 0.0% NA Spirits & Bitters
🌿 Real botanicals. No extracts/flavourings.
📍 Made by hand in Ontario, Canada,

09/24/2026

NEGRONI WEEK IS HERE 🥳🥳

We're so excited to be popping up this weekend with our friends at Cocktail Emporium for our first Toronto tasting in over a year! We'll be on-site sampling Novara Aperitivo and our line of bitters, with a featured (NA) Negroni Sbagliato available at the tasting bar for you to enjoy as you browse the shop!

And have you heard the news? There are two more great ways to get in on the fun with us at Cocktail Emporium now through the end of the week:
1. Enjoy $5 off per bottle of Novara AND Negroni Sbagliato gift sets in-store and online until Sept 27th.
2. Over on the Cocktail Emporium Instagram, we're running a limited-time contest to wneter to win a Negroni Sbagliato gift set, huzzah! Contest closes Sept 27th.

Hope to see you there -- come see us in person and say 𝗖𝗶𝗮𝗼!

📍 Cocktail Emporium
📍 972 Queen St. W, Toronto ON, M8J 1H1
📍 https://www.cocktailemporium.com

LINKS TO SALE ITEMS:
- Novara Aperitivo: https://www.cocktailemporium.com/products/novara-non-alcoholic-bitter-aperitivo
- Negroni Sbagliato Gift Set: https://www.cocktailemporium.com/products/negroni-sbagliato-set-non-alcoholic

09/05/2026

2 Days to go! We are so pleased to have partnered with Freed From to expand our reach into the UK this fall and to participate in the Freed From trade launch this coming Monday, September 7th! See below for details.

9,000 drinks considered.
Less than 4% Made The Grade®️.
43 producers selected.
One Freed From Collection®️.

And now, for the first time, the entire Freed From Collection®️ comes together under one roof. On 7 September, we’ll be at Belvedere Holland Park, London W8, with the drinks mixed, poured and ready to be tasted, sampled and judged by you.

43 producers. One Collection.
Made The Grade®️.
Here For Good®️.

7 September · 11am–8pm
Belvedere Holland Park, London W8
Only a few trade places remain.
👉 Register: freedfrom.com/launch

08/28/2026

heads up: our award-winning alcohol-free aperitivo, Novara is back in stock NOW and already down to < 100 bottles left. This sells out every time, and supply is extremely limited - visit our site and see what your NA Negroni has been missing.
new here? hi! my name’s Nick, and I make botanical focused, non-alcoholic spirits and bitters from real ingredients in Niagara Falls, Ontario. our aperitivo, Novara, makes the best alcohol-free Negronis and Spritzes.
after nearly 20 years of working behind the bar, I spend my days now making the best ingredients I can, equally worthy of both the world’s finest cocktail bars, and the most talented sobercurious home bartenders.
it means the world to me that you found us. please say hi!

non alcoholic beverage founder small business CPG startup Canadian bartender owned NA Negroni

This batch is going fast, and we’re down to < 100 bottles already. Grab some while you can 🤌

08/13/2026

Three stars from Great Taste 2026. 🌟

Well...four, depending on how you count them, I guess 😅 -- In our first year entering the world's most respected food and drink competition, our Curious Cardamom Bitters earned a 2-star award ("outstanding," in the judges' words), and our Overtly Orange and New Orleans Bywater Bitters each took home a 1-star award.

Over 15,000 products entered from 116 countries, every single one tasted blind. Of the 26 awards presented to Canadian products this year, three came home to Niagara.

Next stop: the UK. Our full lineup arrives this fall with Freed Distribution, launching September 7th in Holland Park, London, with a trade preview for buyers and media at The Belvedere, and a public tasting at the Orangery next door. Free public tickets are limited, and can be picked up at freedfrom.com

Full announcement at the following link:
https://www.barkandbitter.com/blogs/guides-education/bark-bitter-wins-three-great-taste-awards-2026

08/05/2026

We are so excited to share that Bark & Bitter is headed BACK to NYC next month (!) for Drinks With Benefits. We had so much fun last year participating in the city’s first-ever zero-proof festival that we couldn't help but make our way back in 2026, with this year's festival happening on Thursday, September 17th 🗽

If that wasn't enough, in 2026 DWB has announced a brand-new, single-day educational event, the Drinks With Benefits Summit, happening the day before, and featuring talks from cornerstones of the NA industry such as Athletic Brewing, InvestBev, Distill Ventures, and more!

Like last year, it’s shaping up to be an unforgettable day of tasting, chatting, and sipping with 40+ of the finest non-alcoholic brands in the game. Catch us in the Tasting Gallery pouring Novara Aperitivo and our full lineup of non-alcoholic bitters and mixers as we make our triumphant return to the city. See you there?

📍 135 W 18th St, NYC
🗓️ Thursday, September 17, 2025
🕐 5-10 PM* (Trade-only 5 to 6PM)
🔗 https://bottleraiders.com/drinks-with-benefits/

Tickets are now available via — grab yours early and come say hi!

👇 Let us know if you’ll be there — we can’t wait to meet some of our NYC community in person!

08/02/2026

What happens when you hand the bartender your own bottle at the bar where the drink was invented?

We just published 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗢𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀, the story of our week at Tales of the Cocktail 2026 and two drinks we won't forget.

At the Carousel Bar in Hotel Monteleone, where the Vieux Carré was created in 1938, we swapped in both of our bitters: New Orleans Bywater for the Peychaud's, Honestly Aromatic for the Angostura. After nearly two decades of pilgrimages to that rotating bar, this was a dream come true. Then to Jewel of the South, where Chris Hannah's own Bywater cocktail was made for us with the same New Orleans-inspired Bywater Bitters.

A little bit of self-indulgence to cap off a wonderful visit that we'll forever remain grateful for. Thank you, New Orleans!

Read the full story here: https://www.barkandbitter.com/blogs/guides-education/two-new-orleans-classics-made-with-our-bitters

08/01/2026

kinda chic, no? 💅

07/30/2026

Tucked into a corner of the North Park neighbourhood of San Diego, Collins & Coupe is the kind of shop that a bartender's dreams are made of. Inside you'll find a selection of vintage glassware, tiki mugs, bar tools, books, and a bitters wall so deep that you'd be hard-pressed to find a better selection anywhere else.
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Since 2017, Gary, Logan and the team have been building San Diego's finest lineup of bar tools and ingredients, with a robust non-alc offering to match. We're grateful to have been working with the team for a good while now, and we're proud to sit on those shelves alongside brands and makers we've admired for years.⁠
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In the area? Tell them Bark & Bitter sent you, and say 𝗖𝗶𝗮𝗼 for us.⁠
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📍 Collins & Coupe⁠
📍 2876 El Cajon Blvd #100, San Diego, CA⁠
🕚 Wed–Sun, 11–6
🔗 https://www.collinsandcoupe.com/

07/25/2026

a day in the life selling an alcohol-free, bitter aperitivo 😅
non-alcoholic aperitif Bark & Bitter Novara aperitivo tales of the cocktail founder life CPG

07/20/2026

still here. still sh*t at social media. tasty drinks tho.

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