Re:Why Do East Asian Firms Value Drinking?
by standardUser on Sunday March 03, 2024 @02:44PM
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If you can tolerate a very tiny amount of alcohol, bitters with soda is a great cocktail substitute. There's also "hop water" beverages that I really like that have no calories.
Non-alcoholic beers have also gotten quite good.
Second this. I love beer and hate alcohol and lately non-alcoholic beers (specially of blonde types) have become very high quality.
Just avoid the over-industrialized ones, like you'd do with normal beers.
Re:Why Do East Asian Firms Value Drinking?
by hughesjj on Sunday March 03, 2024 @10:03PM
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Partake and athletic are amazing but my favorite is still asahi dry zero, just hard to find
Also laguinitas hopwater is the bomb and I like it better than actual IPAs
Re:Why Do East Asian Firms Value Drinking?
by rdonahue on Monday March 04, 2024 @07:50AM
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Try mixing some zero sugar lemonade w/ Hopwater. It's fantastic.
Herbal tea is good (but good luck ordering that in a bar!). And personally, pure fruit juices are fine for me.
Yerba Mate is very caffeinated, and I wouldn't say very different from tea, aside from the social norms around it.
What is wrong with citron pressé?
Re:Why Do East Asian Firms Value Drinking?
by FrankoDelMar on Sunday March 03, 2024 @03:18PM
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kombucha
Kombucha is my drink of choice, but it is fermented tea so if tea is out so is kombucha.
The other options I can think of are are flavored seltzers/flavored water, Mocktails/virgin cocktails/Shirley Temples, agua fresca, non-alcoholic beer, and herbal tea. Availability varies, of course.
Re:Why Do East Asian Firms Value Drinking?
by inglor_cz on Sunday March 03, 2024 @03:42PM
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Another option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass
Re:Why Do East Asian Firms Value Drinking?
by ElevenLathe on Sunday March 03, 2024 @08:56PM
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Nutritionally, kwas is just an eccentric kind of pop marketed to eastern Europeans. The modern mass-market stuff is even made the same way: syrup and forced carbonation.
If we ignore alcohol. We have few groups:
1) Coffee / tea (caffeinated so many cant sleep after them)
2) Yerba mate (isnt it the same group as caffeinated drinks? Also availability is low)
3) sugary drinks (cola, fanta, soda..) - basically liquid diabetes
4) juices (they are sugary again even if other type of sugar)
5) milk (nobody sells / buys milk?)
6) water with lemon
So if you want to sleep, dont want sugary drinks you are left with water with lemon.