8 Innovative Alcohol Free Drinks Under $40 to Keep Dry January Going
On 1/29/21 at 11:32 AM EST
People have been kicking off the new year with what s been dubbed Dry January in a growing trend. Beginning each January alcohol-free allows people a chance to reset and re-calibrate. Even if it s only for one month of the year, detoxing from December can be a great way to figure out priorities in a sober way.
What if January came and went and you re still digging the alcohol-free lifestyle? There are plenty of new options to keep your taste buds happy without the effects of booze. In fact, a lot of companies are bringing out new drinks to cater to the growing number of people avoiding alcohol. Some are investing in CBD to provide new kinds of drinks, while others are just creating complex adult beverages minus the hangover. There are plenty of reasons to forego an alcoholic beverage that have nothing to do with a lack of control. Maybe it s a social setting or a solo one, but either wa
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My Year in Drinks: 2020 Wayne Curtis
2020 was the year we reconsidered our relationship with drink, both collectively and individually.
Collectively we drank more but spent less on liquor. According to a survey of 1,540 Americans recently published by the
Journal of the American Medical Association, the frequency of drinking rose 14 percent in 2020 over the previous year.
We drank less in bars, which were being shuttered, and more at home, having gone into survivalist bunker mode. We filled our liquor larders with cheaper comfort brands. While volume consumed was up, overall revenues for liquor companies were down.
Individually, how we related to alcohol was impossible to categorize. Some of us stepped up our home games, hosting outdoor get-togethers for our pods, acquiring exotic liquors to mix cocktails we might otherwise pass by. But others abandoned drink altogether, including one friend who announced early on that she was going dry.
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