I like the NA beer flavor and will drink it relatively slowly.
Water I would have a lot of and get bored and want something else.
Diet cola I would drink a million of and cross the line for caffeine at whatever hour.
The NAs are fine for me. (Still a drinker in general, but I do use the NAs for reasons that work for me.)
I had one NA beer a month or so after I stopped. I found the taste quite unpleasant. It highlighted that for me I never enjoyed the taste of beer, just of the alcohol in beer.
When I have a non alcoholic drink in a wine glass, or pick up a bottle of non alcoholic beer, I donāt really like it, my mind doesnāt want that association anymore. YMMV.
I regularly serve (non alcoholic) sparkling cider in wine glasses. Thatās the na option for toasting midnight on New Yearās Eve in my household, and was the na option at my wedding.
We went through more of it than we went through champagne. Stuff is tasty. I recommend Martinellis.
Yeah we always have Martinelliās at family functions where weāll be drinking champagne. But we like sweet champagne: Asti Spumante, and we go through quite a bit of that as well.
I know some wine enthusiasts will balk at that, but every drinker in my family likes it. We do only drink Martini & Rossi though. Thereās a couple other options out there that arenāt very good IMO.
Who knows, maybe YT was kidnapped, tied up, taken away, and held for ransom. By beer?
Just a beer refugee?
You donāt have to live like that.
Hi my name is Tiffany and Iām a sugar-aholic. I just ate an entire Ghirardelli intense dark salted caramel 3.5 oz bar, the last 1/3 of the bag of salt and vinegar chips, and Iām probably going to eat a bucket of fruit for lunch.
And Iām supposed to be on an acid-free diet.
no sugar, no fat, no spicy, no salt, no chocolate, no coffee, no alcohol, no drugs, no life
Truer words have never been spoken.
But more seriously, WHAT IS EVEN LEFT TO EAT?!?
Lagunitas sells sparkling hops water?
I donāt know if good is the word Iād use, but I do like it sometimes.
Iāve seen the hop water, have not tried it.
the hop water was actually pretty good I thought. Not sure what I expected, but it wasnāt what I expected. Closer to a hops-flavored seltzer than an NA beer. I mean all of that in a good way. it def wasnāt like drinking beer IMO, at all.
For NA beers, I went to Total Wine and built my own 6 pack (12 pack actually) and tried a bunch. Stout, porter, lager, whatever. The hop water was in there and it was nice.
Youāre in luck. None of those things in your list contains LSD.
donāt ever come to my house!
Butā¦ please?
Great thread - I too miss that AO thread.
I need to severely question my relationship with beer. Limiting the daily intake, decreasing the # of times a week. Iāve added the hop water that @tommie.frazier says above as well. (I think it is actually very good - seltzer + hops - I have access to hopwtr and athletic, lagunitas I am searching for) to my fridge
you like drinking good beers. stop at 2 on work days. (2 assumes normal range ABV) go slow and really enjoy those good beers. thatās how you know they are good. then, also take some days off.
i started buying all these barrel aged things. like a 4 pack of founders kbs. i have one when i get home and it is something. like I love it. then I have 3 in the fridge for a LONG time bc i donāt find a lot of nights where me alone drinking that delicious beast makes sense. I need more friends to come over and split it. As another super-beer nerd friend told me, barrel aged stuff is almost a lifestyle choice.
I was recently at an event where one of the participants brought some beer heād brewed. He said it was 2% alcohol.
It was REALLY GOOD. Partly it was good because it was very fresh, but partly it was nice that it had so little alcohol I really didnāt feel the alcohol at all.
Low alcohol beer was nutritious and often the only safe way to hydrate in medieval Europe - Small beer - Wikipedia