This Dry January, non-alcoholic beer O’Doul’s is wading into the dating pool for a new partnership with dating app Match. The initiative, including limited-edition cans, Match profile updates and a sweepstakes, is meant to help encourage and normalize the conversation around drinking a little or not at all.
As part of the partnership, the Anheuser-Busch-owned O’Doul’s, which sells malt beers containing less than 0.5% alcohol, is launching a sweepstakes on Thursday in which 100 fans will win Virtual Date Kits with items designed for a virtual date, minus the alcohol. The sweepstakes is being promoted across Match and Anheuser-Busch social channels.
Included in the Virtual Date Kits are O’Doul’s socks, designer candles, selfie rings and phone stands and conversation cards to break the ice on a date, but also limited-edition cans. It’s the third consecutive year in which O’Doul’s has released a limited-edition can.
The new cans feature a couple on one side and a heart on the other, set against a yellow background that mixes in Match’s signature blue. "Premium O’Doul’s: Extra smooth non-alcoholic beer” reads one side.
The cans are designed by Austin-based illustrator Abbey Lossing, known for her colorful and playful illustrations for publishers including The New York Times and The New Yorker; direct-to-consumer brands Warby Parker, Casper and Lyft; and retailers Target and Anthropologie.