Hopefully you were careful and didn’t have a big gathering. There were just five of us, but I got to hear some absolute bangers.

  • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    yeah I'm really loving that it's becoming easier and easier to chill on the alcohol on a social level. I keep seeing various friends sharing mocktail recipes and posts about normalizing not drinking and stuff and it's great. alcohol isn't exactly great for us. (This also may be more of an age thing too; I'm roughly 30 so basically also an old at this point)

    but like, I'm also a huuuuuuuuuge beer nerd so I just love opening something new to smell and drink and tell tasting notes to nobody about.

    • blackmesa [comrade/them,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah! I just wish the folks around me where into sharing things like mocktails. Any fun recipes i could share with my partner and company?

      • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I mean the article that they shared was like basically a bunch of good alcoholic drinks that don't really need any alcohol in them to be good... like moscow mule (ginger beer and lime juice) mojitos (muddled mint, lime juice, sugar and soda water) daiquiris(lime juice and fruit and like maybe a shitload of ice in a blender honestly this drink is anything you want at this point...) and they mentioned things like martinellis apple cider instead of champagne.... but like so many of those do rely on quite a lot of sugar, but generally you can control the sugar amount and it'll stay pretty balanced. oh tepache! that's the cool thing to drink now, just fermented pineapple stuff, it's more kombucha-ish levels of alcohol and apparently it's really easy to make. I'm also a big fan of italian sodas from baladin (they're a beer brewery with some great stuff) their soft drinks are amazing, they have a Spuma that's like a negroni without any alcohol and pretty mild sugar. https://www.baladin.it/en/spuma-nera