Principle
Operator taste first
NonAlcGod is built from hospitality judgment: what works in a glass, on a menu, at an event, and in a room full of real people.
Joshua-led / operator-native / source-backed
The functional beverage intelligence layer has an operator behind it.
NonAlcGod translates Joshua James' Ocean Beach Cafe operating lens into a public knowledge layer for people choosing better drinks, stronger rituals, and functional alternatives without stale mocktail-era language.
Use it to route practical questions into the directory, guides, and NonAlcNews while the live Ask/RAG layer remains approval-gated. The goal is simple on the surface and vast underneath: taste, source signal, and hospitality usefulness with receipts.
Routing only: no generated answer, provider call, retrieval, vector write, source mutation, email capture, or production/domain move starts from this page.
Principle
Receipts before answers
The site can stage questions today, but generated Ask answers stay closed until citation quality, source breadth, and Joshua voice gates pass.
Principle
Elevation, not restriction
The frame is functional, adult, social, and useful: better rituals for people drinking differently, not shame language or mocktail nostalgia.