The Spirit of Tequila

This was my first experience with a non-alcoholic, gluten-free beverage since I decided to stop drinking years ago. I still appreciate the flavor, so I was excited to try this one, and I was truly impressed by its bold taste. While it was a bit spicy for my wife, I found it perfectly enjoyable, and I’m looking forward to sipping it straight. Now I can fully enjoy the flavor without any of the effects of alcohol.

Tastes like sugar water with red pepper in it.

When i took a shot it tastes kinda spicy not and okay not quite like tequila. But if you add the Agalima Organic Authentic Margarita Drink Mix and mix with ice it tastes like a flawless margarita!

I’ve tried many of the NA tequila brands and thought this was the best of a not very good group. The Ritual was particularly bad. Biggest issue here is the price: at 3x a decent regular tequila it’s hard to justify.

Burns like real tequila, per my husband. One of the only things that helps when he is struggling with wanting a drink. Sobriety is hard but this is 100% worth the cost if it helps him. Tried the Ritual tequila brand, this one is preferred over that one. According to purchase history I've bought it 9 times, just ordered the 10th.

Nasty! I researched and researched a NA tequila and this one had good reviews on a lot of pages (ironically only 3.5 on Amazon). I should have paid attention to the lower ranking on Amazon. I like the idea someone had in their review of using it for a NA Bloody Mary. I think that's the only thing I could consider it for. I LOVE TEQUILA - sipping it straight or as mixed drink. I added a super small amount to my 7-up and couldn't drink it. The flavor was so dominant, even rinsing out my glass, it still had a smell of it until I rinsed it again. The smell when you open the bottle is off-putting. I really, really wanted to like this but it's either going to get tossed or used for the bloody mary idea. If you are someone who likes a 100% agave tequila, I don't think you will like this. It's not smooth at all. Really bummed.

Some good agave notes, but they added a hot pepper flavor to mimic the alcohol burn, and they went too far. It has an overpowering hot sauce flavor. Better in a mixed drink but still noticeable.

Nose of smoke, apples and banana come through on Free Spirits'Spirit of Tequila. Taste is quite smoky and the pepper burn is quite pronounced (and I love spicy, but this is a bit much for me). In a margarita (using Lyre's Orange sec, doubling the amount of both compared to the standard recipe, which in my experimentation is sometimes about right for using these alternatives) it just doesn't stand out. The pepper burn is there and the smokiness kind of comes through, but I get nothing reminiscent of agave or a true tequila in this. Compared to Ritual this one just doesn't do it for me and doesn't remind me of tequila much at all. There's an aftertaste to it is strongly banana, ore maybe similar to vanilla that's just gone... off. Some of the alternatives don't have that smokiness in them, though, so I have tried mixing it with other alternatives to add that in, but overall it still misses the mark for me and doesn't seem to mix well that way at all, to my taste. I might note here that The Sober Barkeep rates this a 5 of 5 and his review says he loves to drink this neat, so there is a definite difference in taste there. I've since seen other reviews on this and even asked other folks about the strong banana in this and while I have seen a few other people mention this many of the great reviews for this either do not mention it or, when I've asked, state they don't get any kind of banana smell from it at all. It's entirely possible I got a bad batch here, or that it had a longer exposure in storage to, say, sunlight and/or heat which changed the character of the product. As such I can only suggest that my rating may not be consistent with that of others but it does speak to a potential issue of quality control or at least a level of consistency in the product, so that may be something to keep in mind here.