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Here’s a breakdown of available alcohol-free options:
Spirits
Zero-proof spirits often mimic the taste, aroma, mouthfeel and sometimes the burn of whiskey, tequila, gin and more. They are made by distilling botanicals like agave and oak to create the essence of traditional spirits. Brands to try are Monday and Seedlip (herbal gin alternatives), Caleño (tropical), Mockingbird Spirit (tequila alternative), Ritual (whiskey, tequila and gin), and Lyre’s (American malt, amaretti and more).
Wine and beer
Many alcohol-free drinks on the market mimic wines and beers. Athletic Brewing Company and BrewDog offer entire lines of non-alcoholic beers in a can, and there are a lot of local craft options. HopTea is made with real black tea and hops, TÖST is a dry sparkling beverage made with tea (and it comes in a wine bottle), and Grüvi makes both wine and beer (bubbly rosés, IPAs and more).
You will be haunted, resumed the Ghost, by Three Spirits.
A year ago, I contacted a childhood friend and pondered calling another. The person I d called I d been in touch with, sporadically, before and since. The other I ve not seen since a Christmas somewhere in the 1990s. He d crossed paths with my mother, at church, I think, and she told him I was in town for the holidays. He knocked on my door like when we were kids. Preschoolers, even. We went for a drink.
I don t even recall when we met. Both yards backed onto the bush, our term for a piece of farmer s field nature had started reclaiming in the 1950s when the neighbourhood went up. Ours were the two houses on that block without back fences. We could pass freely into our yards, in and out of the bush, which became our childhood playground. A couple times, on summer nights, windows open, I heard voices as older kids slipped through yard for quick passage. Our fathers shared the same first name. Both were men of Italian des
Norman Knight: All about the feel-good endings
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At first I was slightly embarrassed to admit to anyone that Becky and I watched one of those Hallmark Christmas Movies. As a matter of fact, if I’m being totally honest here, we watched two of them. I could make it sound as if we weren’t really “watching,” merely using the TV as video wallpaper while we wrapped presents and attempted to contain the chaos that is holiday preparation. But again, being honest I was actually getting involved in the stories and characters. I was enjoying them.
My feelings of embarrassment came because I was imagining what others might think of me. I knew many people consider Hallmark Christmas Movies to be sentimental kitsch filled with sappy dialogue and implausible, eye-rolling plot situations. And to top it off, these movies always have happy, feel-good endings which to some cinema connoisseurs seems to be a hallmark (ahem) of inauthentic film expression. But the more I tho