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Episode 107: It's No Big Deal if You Don't Drink
Wine Enthusiast Podcast
English - January 19, 2022 06:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MB - ★★★★ - 172 ratingsFood Arts beer food liquor wine beverage distilling restaurants spirits Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
If you or someone you know isn't drinking alcohol for any reason at all, you have options. The non-alcoholic drinks space is evolving. Bars dedicated to booze-free hospitality offer creative menus, and there are scores of spirit-free bottles of booze, beer and wine at specialty shops and digital retailers.
In this episode, Associate Managing Editor Emily Saladino explores non-alcoholic drinks culture with John deBary, a semi-retired bartender who is also an author, creator and CEO of Proteau, and cofounder and board president of Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation. They're joined by Dylan Garret, another semi-retired bartender and senior editor at Wine Enthusiast.
They discuss how the cocktail lounges of the early aughts and 2010s precipitated the rise of non-alcoholic drinks, and how those of us who do and don't drink alcohol can't raise glasses to a more inclusive scene moving forward.
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