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Since I switched from beer to 0 calories soft drinks, drinking is no longer a problem

I think you can fake your brain out with habit hacks like this. Not sure how to supplant the taste of a near whiskey though.

Never liked hard liquor in the first place. Switching from beer to soft drink is much easier. Also it's much cheaper

Also 0 alcohol beer is totally a scam. It's just beer flavored soft drink selling at the beer price, which is absurd.

If Coca/Pepsi starts to sell beer flavored coke, it would be kinda hilarious

Re: >coke Pepsi making beer.

They have that in other countries, malt drinks but no booze. Kids drink them after sports.

Or now I saw, carbonated water soaked in hops a la le croix but instead of hints of lime it’s hops. Pricey too!

I enjoy brewing some loose leaf* green tea with varying ratios (leaf, water, temperature, time). Others might enjoy it! I think it's a fantastic replacement beverage that helped me cut soda.

I like doing 4g of Japanese sencha leaves, 80-100mL of water, at 60-70C for 30s to a minute. Second steep 10 seconds, and third 30-40 seconds. But honestly the fun is in experimenting! (plus at lower temperatures you can drink it right away!)

Cool ideas. I’ll look into them!

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