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All You Need For A Successful Dry January: Mocktail Recipes, Ingredients, And Tips

A Bar Above

Since excessive drinking has been on the rise during the pandemic, we really want to focus on how to make delicious, spirit-free cocktails and enjoy other beverages such as nonalcoholic beer and wine. Top with ginger beer. SPIRIT-FREE SPIRITS What am I even talking about? And without alcohol, it’s super simple! ½-1

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Making Non-Alcoholic Wine Will Never Be Easy. Can Momentum Carry It Forward?

VinePair

Beer has arguably pulled off the NA feat best, cracking the zero proof code and producing genuinely drinkable options that resemble real styles. But craft beer didn’t pull off the miracle overnight and we probably shouldn’t expect the same from wine. But what of wine?

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Who Let the Fizz Out? Why Bubble-Free Booze Is on the Rise

VinePair

In 2021, the duo introduced the 3.75 Bloating and burping are proof that life’s not always a gas. Twisted Tea , which is owned by Boston Beer Company , has become a category-defining behemoth with broadly appealing flavors and, like iced tea, zero carbonation. Even in beer, carbonation is not always a net positive.

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Beware the ‘Gonster,’ Social Media’s Viral Guinness-Monster Mashup

VinePair

Once home, a pint glass in hand, I pour approximately 8 ounces of the Slimer-green taurine bomb before carefully floating 8 ounces of dark-ruby-red-colored beer on top of it. Popular beer meme account Dont Drink Beer posted the exact same image on the platform, racking up 1.3 million views. Patrick’s Day. based alcopop.

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Breweries Are Great Third Places. But We Deserve Even Better Ones.

VinePair

After all, this is a column about the beer industry, and while I’m often quite critical of the breweries that comprise it, they’ve proven “enough” to sustain our weekly efforts for over a year, haven’t they? In the patient, slightly wary manner of writers’ spouses everywhere, she asked me to explain what the hell I was talking about.

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25 Bartending Blogs That you should check out in 2022

Today's Bartender

Punch Punch is a James Beard Award-winning online magazine that writes about wine, spirits, beer, and cocktails. In 2021, Punch was acquired by Vox Media , the publisher of food website Eater. Drinkhacker The essential site for the discriminate drinker, Drinkhacker tastes and rates an enormous amount of spirits, wine, and beer.

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America’s Energy Drink Habit Is Fueling Big Profits, for Better or Worse

VinePair

Tim Riley first began reviewing energy drinks in 2021, when his wife joked that his habit of tasting sugary caffeine beverages with his skillset as a sommelier could make for a good TikTok bit. For a long time, zero-sugar formulations lagged behind their conventional brethren, he says (“Red Bull really didn’t seem to care,” he adds).