I've caught more than one news article lately talking about the rise in "sober" bars, that is bars that do not serve alcohol. The mocktails can get very posh with all sorts of ingredients, just none of them being alcohol.
Apparently most of this comes from a declining alcohol consumption trend among millennials. Some of the big name brewers like Heineken, always looking to be ahead of the curve, have poured (pun intended) millions into the development of lower alcohol and non-alcoholic beers like Heineken zero that just came out.
This said, I just can't imagine bellying up to a sober bar and asking the barkeep for a ginger lemongrass spritzer.
I don't have a moral opinion one way or the other regarding alcohol, but if a sober bar keeps an otherwise drunk driver off the road, or keeps a drunk woodworker from coming home and cutting his or her fingers off, then that would be one good thing.
But I must say, if Newcastle Brown Ale comes out with a non-alcoholic version, I may just throw myself off a cliff. Some things are sacred.