{"id":660323,"date":"2021-11-01T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=660323"},"modified":"2021-11-01T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T10:26:14","slug":"zag-is-an-incredibly-distinctive-new-alcohol-free-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/zag-is-an-incredibly-distinctive-new-alcohol-free-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"Zag is an incredibly distinctive new alcohol-free drink. It&#8217;s fresssssh and botanical; completely different to anything you&#8217;ve tried before!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Zag is an incredibly distinctive new alcohol-free drink. It&#8217;s fresssssh and botanical; completely different to anything you&#8217;ve tried before!<\/h3>\n<p><strong>THE ORIGINS OF ZAG<\/strong><br \/>\nWe were chatting over a few (alcohol free) beers and, in a lightbulb moment, thought&#8230;Maybe It\u2019s Time To Zag?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-660325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zz2-615x922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zz2-615x922.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zz2-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zz2-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zz2.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zag\u2019s journey started with an idea conceived many years ago and resurrected very recently. We decided it was an idea for today\u2019s world \u2013 an idea worth staking our future on.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the challenge: Why does an alcohol-free alternative to beer have to try and copy the taste of beer? It\u2019s impossible to match the taste of beer without alcohol. Surely there could be a better solution &#8211; a drink that has the benefits of beer; a long, refreshing drink that\u2019s not too sweet and can be drunk in quantity. One that doesn\u2019t attempt to replicate the taste of beer. Instead, a new drink that has its own unique flavour.<\/p>\n<p>See more at :- <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/zagdrinks.com\/\">zagdrinks.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zag is an incredibly distinctive new alcohol-free drink. It&#8217;s fresssssh and botanical; completely different to anything you&#8217;ve tried before! THE ORIGINS OF ZAG We were chatting over a few (alcohol free) beers and, in a lightbulb moment, thought&#8230;Maybe It\u2019s Time To Zag? Zag\u2019s journey started with an idea conceived many years ago and resurrected very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":660324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660462,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660323\/revisions\/660462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}