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Stealthy non-alcoholic beer and wine options
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Agreed. I'm enjoying an Athletic Run Wild IPA as I write. Medium body and carbonation, pours golden with a slight head that dissipates, some lacing on the glass. First smell is hops. Hop-forward taste of grapefruit. Malt lingers on palate as I swallow, finish is long and hoppy.
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The uphill of positivity didn’t “level off” for me until 24 months - so do keep at it.
That's a long ol' while - Fair play. I just love having the options without the "rubbish". Reminds me of thinking about how vegetarians didn't have the wealth of options they had 20 years now compared to now
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Has anyone tried this? https://impossibrew.co.uk/
Designed to give your a mild buzz/chill. I'm calling bullshit, but it gets good reviews.
Designed to give your a mild buzz/chill. I'm calling bullshit, but it gets good reviews.
"Our beers are brewed with Social Blend™, our proprietary alcohol alternative made from a blend of science-backed ingredients, designed to replicate the sensory, social and relaxing experience of drinking."
I want to know what's in it that's making me buzzy! Gotta be wary of the buzzwords and pseudoscience
Gotta try it
I want to know what's in it that's making me buzzy! Gotta be wary of the buzzwords and pseudoscience
Gotta try it
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While life is absolutely bombarded with and by advertising messaging, the drink game is all about the advertising.
My first exposures to alcohol were at 6 (welcome to Ireland). Neither of my parents drank. My first was my Grandfather (who was actually from Italy but moved to the UK when he was 2). I never heard him speak but he used to offer me sips of Guinness from his glass while he listened to the radio. The second was at a funeral where it seemed to be a thing for young men at the time to offer kids bottles of Guinness that were used as ashtrays, I can still taste the ash in my mouth.
Lucky Saint is great lager. Not just compared to other alcohol free, but great full stop. They do an ipa now which is decent too.
Best thing is some pubs do it on draft. The thing I miss when not drinking is having a genuine pint in a pub garden with mates, and this solves that.
Let me know if you try it!
I miss beer garden culture more than you can imagine as a man who used to while away the hours drinking excellent, cheap European beer in the summer time, either in a beer garden, or river adjacent.
The absolute punch in the face I got when in London for the day getting ready to move there from continental Europe, at a lunch meeting in what they call The City (as though there is only one City) and shelling out literally 5x what I paid the night before for the same bloody beer, was ominous, but I pressed on.
Shall give Lucky Saint a go next time I see it in a venue.
Anyway - for now… I’m indulging my German heritage.
Und live aus Ostengland, es ist Samstagabend!
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Completely forgot the standard Paulaner no alcohol, not the radler, had been my go to when I used to hit up Munich Cricket Club in Canary Wharf for lunch or dinner on a semi regular basis for a time.
alkoholfrei Radler.
A bit too much of the full feeling on this one for my stomach to allow me to go more than two bottles, but still very nice.
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Since you mentioned Munich, get you another one. Still Radler but not Alkoholfrei, 2.5% is almost Alkoholfrei, right?
I'll definitely allow it. Looks great
Since you mentioned Munich, get you another one. Still Radler but not Alkoholfrei, 2.5% is almost Alkoholfrei, right?
