Cheers to Dry January with these Beverages

Those looking to stay healthy and well in 2022, may want to practice Dry January for the first 31 days of the year. Not only does eliminating alcohol affect your wellbeing, it helps with a better night’s sleep, and you wake up more refreshed. It also helps some people lose weight and uplifts their mood.

Here are some talented entrepreneurs making your favorite beverage alcohol-free.

Beer Lovers

Partake Brewing

Partake Brewing is a category leader in the non-alcoholic beer space. Through the Cheers to Adulting brand platform, Partake makes great-tasting, low calorie, non-alcoholic beer for anytime of the year. The 5 Partake Can Discovery Pack let’s you sample each beer to find the flavors you like best to sip in January and throughout the year.

Kentucky 74

Bourbon Lovers

Spiritless Kentucky 74 bourbon was named Best Non-Alcoholic Spirit and won a gold medal in the second annual L.A. Spirits Awards. It’s a beautifully distilled non-alcoholic spirit to make bourbon cocktails. Pick your potency by pairing one-to-one with your favorite bourbon whiskey to cut down on ABV and calories, or, go completely Spiritless by replacing the alcohol entirely. Kentucky 74 delivers a high-quality, smooth finish, with familiar notes of caramel, vanilla, and oak. There are about 13 servings per container. Priced at $35.99. They also sell Spiritless Cocktail Making Gift Sets.

Botanicals

Wilderton is a flavorful, bold, zero-proof spirit perfect for Dry January and beyond into 2022. This distilled non-alcoholic spirit is crafted from raw botanicals sourced from across the world. Carefully chosen ingredients including pine smoked tea, peppercorn, cardamom, bitter orange, lemongrass, and rose. Wilderton is also calorie-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, and 100% vegan. Oregonians Brad Whiting and Seth O’Malley’s vision of distilling spirits rooted in flavor, unbound by alcohol include Wilderton Earthen is warm and exotic offering a hint of smoke and pleasant linger on the palate. Recipes for an array of cocktails including ‘Derby Day’ ‘Bloody Moon’ and “Wild Bramble’.

Wine

Those who enjoy a glass or two of wine will appreciate how SipC is ideal to sip during Dry January. Entrepreneur Alex Klempf, founder and owner of SipC started SipClean in October 2020. This alcohol-removed wine is also for people at any stage of their lives where alcohol is no longer an option.

Klempf’s white blend wine is made with French Colombard grapes grown in Central California, and her Rose’ is made with Cabernet Sauvignon grapes grown in the state of Washington. Both are slightly effervescent and offer a dry finish. Just 35 and 40 calories for a 12 ounce serving with a less than 0.5% ABV. Sip during weekend brunch and feel good about focusing on your health and wellness.

Photo by Jill Weinlein

After Dry January if you wish to go back to drinking alcohol, SOBAR are tasty protein bars created by inventor Joseph Fisher, MD, PhD. As a member of the Institute of Food Technologies, Fisher’s goal is to create unique foods that can improve an individual’s well being and lifestyle. His SOBAR is the world’s first snack food specifically designed to reduce alcohol absorption before or during drinking alcohol. Eating a SOBAR helps one “Think Before You Drink” by filling your stomach to minimize alcohol absorption. These high protein, low sugar bars won the 2020 Best Health or Wellness Food category in the World FOOD Innovation Awards. Flavors include Carmel Macchiato, Honey Peanut and White Chocolate Almond. There are no sugar alcohols, no Stevia and no artificial sweeteners. Each bar has 130 calories and 12 grams of protein.

Stay healthy and well in 2022.