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Yes. JAS® Carajillo Tejas is a ready-to-drink non-alcoholic Carajillo — Mexican coffee, toasted pecan, vanilla and spice in an 8.4 oz nitro can. Currently sold out, with a notify-me list open. Here is what a Carajillo actually is, why a non-alcoholic one is hard to make, and how to make one at home in the meantime.

Dealcoholized drinks start as beer, wine, or spirits and have the alcohol stripped out afterward. Built-from-scratch drinks never contain alcohol at all. The difference explains why so many non-alcoholic drinks taste hollow — and why JAS doesn't.

Tim Burton once said that every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order. And in some cases, there are stories that begin with an end. This is the case of JAS. A story that began with the end of my time as a girl who was passionately in love with Mezcal.