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The Daily Checking for FRI-YAY! July 19th, Just For Today, We Are NOT Drinking!!
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Good morning, fellow sobernauts, IWNDWYT 😁!
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I am on a week now. I used to have a beer or so every night and there were two nights last week where I would've usually had a couple (barbecue and dj'ing with a college friend) but I instead had alcohol free beers. That's not going without completely, I know. But it's a start.
After a week I feel more tired than I have ever been. I just hope that after another couple of weeks of not drinking I will start feeling better.
Nothing wrong with alcohol-free beers, in my opinion. The ones up to 0.5% ABV have the same or less alcohol than many common foods (bread, bananas, orange juice), and you can no more get buzzed off an AF beer than you can off a banana sandwich. Some people may find they trigger a craving for an alcoholic beer, in which case you should avoid them, but if that's not an issue for you, my advice would be don't worry.
My rule is "is it legally classed as alcohol free in my country?" and if it is, I'll drink it. Fortunately, there's some very interesting work being done in the alcohol-free drinks space so I get to try loads of interesting things. Sometimes I only try them once because they're not to my taste.
Yeah my friends and I drink a lot of craft beers and like to explore but we found out my local supermarket (which is a franchise of the biggest chain in my country) has a lot of alcohol free/low alcohol (ie 0.5%) craft beers. I enjoyed some of them yesterday, although most of them are the fruity IPA type.
I think it's cool there's a lot of development in that area. Those of us that drink beer because of the taste can still drive and don't turn into idiots after a couple of drinks.
Congrats on a week!! And I drank NA when I first stopped drinking. It hit weird having the taste and no buzz. I think it helped break that psychological bond too.
Morning, everyone! I will join you in not drinking today!
I’m late but I get an extra day off because of the massive software outage going on right now! Yay 3 day weekend! I will not drink with you!
If you are someone having to clean up this mess, I am deeply sorry
Ohhh I heard that was nasty. As a Mac user I had to giggle tho. BSOD. 🤣