Monday Non-Alcoholic Gin Review

Monday is one of the more straightforward brands in the zero-proof spirits world. The current lineup runs through gin, whiskey, mezcal, and rum, and the brand positions all of them as bottles for classic cocktails rather than precious sipping. That is also the right way to judge the gin. Monday Gin is built in a London dry direction, with juniper, bitter lemon, grapefruit, coriander, and a little heat on the finish. It wants tonic, citrus, and ice, not reverent neat sipping.

That bottle-first, cocktail-first approach is really the whole point of Monday. The whiskey page leans into butterscotch, caramel, roasted coffee, and molasses for Old Fashioneds and Whiskey Sours. The mezcal page leans into smoke, agave, pepper, and citrus for Margaritas and Palomas. So when you pick up the gin, the expectation should be similar: this is a house bottle for mixed drinks, not a contemplative zero-proof spirit for a small neat pour.