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🍸 What is the connection between alcohol and innovation❓ 🎙️ On the Unreserved Wine Talk podcast, you’ll hear the stories and tips that answer those questions in part two of our chat with Edward Slingerland, a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia and the author of Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization. 🔗 Link in bio https://lnkd.in/d54XPXE9 💡 Edward explains that it’s a double effect in enhancing individual creativity and reducing inhibitions. 📉 He cites the study that examined the number of patent applications during Prohibition in the US when people couldn’t drink socially. ⏳ It found that when Prohibition was imposed on a wet county, patent applications nosedived, wow, and didn't come back for about another three years. 🍹 Edward believes that the recovery is because people figured out speakeasies where they could drink socially again. 🧠 How does alcohol improve the quality of group brainstorming? 🎨 Edward observes that alcohol also enhances group creativity because individual members are more creative. 🤔 They’re also less nervous about saying something that your prefrontal cortex would judge as not worthy when perhaps it’s a great idea. ⚕️ Why is it important not to think about alcohol consumption through a medical lens alone? ⚖️ Edward believes that we have to recognize both the dangers and the benefits of alcohol to make intelligent decisions about how to use it. 📚 He wishes he had been able to address the inaccurate information about the health risks in the book as it's a classic example of how public policy regarding alcohol is completely distorted by this medicalized lens. 🍹 Can a drink spark your creativity❓ Let me know in the comments 👇 #natdecants #EdwardSlingerland #wineexperience #winestories #winestory #winegeek #winelover #winemoments #winetime #wineenthusiast #wine #wines #sommlife #wineinfluencer

If milk gets bad, it becomes yoghurt. Yoghurt is more valuable than milk. If it gets even worse, it turns to cheese. Cheese is more valuable than both yoghurt and milk. If grape juice turns sour, it is transformed into wine, which is even more expensive than grape juice. You are not bad because you made mistakes, mistakes are the experience that make you more valuable as a person. Christopher Columbus made a navigational error that made him discover America. The #scottish physician, Alexander Fleming made a mistake which led him to invent Penicillin. Don’t let your mistake get you down. It is not practice that makes perfect. It is mistakes we learn from that makes perfect! #growth #development #dreams #goals #nevergiveup

Interesting reading on the science and data around alcohol consumption and health. There's a lot of fear-mongering out there about how alcohol is ALL bad, but after reading this article it seems like there are more pieces to the puzzle to consider 🤔

Are you ready for the cheese? 🧀 : The rules of round three of "the famous Danish Christmas Lunch"? And what's with the alcohol? 🍺 🎄 ...after the meat you change plates to a smaller one. it’s time for cheese and you can now have crackers! 🤶 You can eat cheese on all of the bread. Sometimes there will be a little bit of jam that you can top your cheese with. 🧀 🎄 The over-aged cheese is called “Gamle Ole” 🎅 (in English: Old Ole). When the number 90 is being yelled in a banko-game you also yell “Gamle Ole” so don’t get confused when someone yells “Gamle Ole” or “Number 90” to you and smiles when you take a piece of that cheese. It doesn’t need further answering. 🤣 The alcohol that goes with the food is beer🍻 and aquavit, which might also be the reason why people start yelling or saying strange things when getting to the cheese. Nowadays you can also have wine. 🍷 Of course, you could also have water or soda – again just be clear and say it, but with nice "wrapping": “Unfortunately I don’t drink alcohol” – in that way you are expressing that you aren’t looking down at the people that do drink. The aquavit goes with the herring (the herring needs something to swim in) and the cheese to be able to wake up your digestion after the food coma. 😴   In some families 👨👨👧👧 , you take it very seriously, which aquavit you serve. Just pretend that you enjoy the aquavit that your father in law picked out for the establishment even though no one will actually know the difference from other aquavits. You bottom your aquavit or "bite it in two" (bide den over) – means: drink it in two sips. In the old days a lady would bite it in two, but those days are long gone... Congratulations! You made it to round 4, "The Dessert"!!!🍧 TO BE CONTINUED... 🎄🤶🎅 #expatlife #retention #culturalintelligence #interculturalcompetence #christmasparty

Sometimes you just need a good proxy. Folks in the wine industry from producers to retailers are scared out of their wits to say anything that might even suggest that wine isn't as bad for you as the Neo-Prohibitionists say it is. They are afraid of lawsuits and pushback by the Feds. Well, there's a way to push back against many of the most outlandish claims ("No Safe Level of Alcohol Consumption) using one of the best tools out there: Books. This is the free-for-all issue of the Fermentation Substack in which I discuss the fear and the book to combat that fear.

#SundaySpill  Serial Hard Seltzer Audiences To conclude the ongoing battle in the mind – that of craving a drink and resisting the urge to avoid the morning aftereffects of alcohol – a Hard Seltzer plays a fair referee, and declares a draw between a conscious and an indulgent lifestyle. Our audience has understood this well, adopting an IST for that ‘fine balance’. There is no age bracket for the IST drinker. Interestingly, there does exist a value bracket. Meet our IST champions: JAMES BOND – The Secret Pour of Secret Agents Gone are the days when the British secret agent downs only vodka martinis. In a world where there are too many cases to crack, you never know if he’s sipping a hard seltzer in a coup glass for all his impromptu social outings and professional networking. PS: For you to try at home, pour our Grapefruit flavour in a coup glass and add three olives for the mood. You’ll love it. JAY GATSBY – The Flamboyant Host While not every party may not be as flamboyant and fancy as The Great Gatsby, having people over has seamlessly woven into our daily rhythm. For this, the modern-day host, makes an impactful and convenient choice with our easy flowing drinks. No complicated cocktails, mixing and garnishes! BEER-Y LOYAL HOMER   The beer lover but the belly resists. For days he wants to hang out with his buddies but the gang won’t stop at a one pint, he now pops open his third round of IST's. No one ends up being a party pooper, duh! DIE-T ANOTHER DAY Diet, a wise crack said, is to Die Trying. Why, though? The conscious have identified options aplenty. Today, it is so easy to control our sugar intake and count calories by cancelling heavy alcoholic beverages every once in a while and turning to a seltzer. Gentle clarification to the cookie cutters - your favorite G&T cocktail comes with a spoiler alert equal to 18 grams of sugar. You are welcome.  #alcobev #bangalore #hardseltzer #foodandbeverage #alcoholindustry #lowcalorie #glutenfree #irrestISTable 

My husband's doing Dry July and loving not drinking. It got me thinking about zero alcohol options, so I did a little research. I discovered these 3 interesting facts: 1. The calorie content of zero alcohol wine is considerably lower per glass, with zero sparkling at about 35cal versus 75 for prosecco. For red wine, zero alcohol is about 30cal vs 90 for a standard red. 2. Zero alcohol wine contains tannins (they add complexity & balance to the wine) which are antioxidants, and therefore good for our health. 3. Zero alcohol wine is produced with alcohol, in the same way as conventional wine. At the end of the winemaking process, however the alcohol is gently removed in a process called dealcoholisation. Here are some zero alcohol recommendations (thanks Ange!): Sparkling: De Bortoli Fizzero (white & rose), McGuigan Zero White: New Blood Chardonnay, Leitz Eins-Zwei Zero Riesling Red: Plus & Minus Pinot Noir & Shiraz, Thomson & Scott Noughty Rouge Syrah Personally, I enjoy drinking wine, but not the fuzzy head, bad sleep and menopause symptoms from just 1-2 glasses. I'm excited to give these a try!

Come see us on Friday we can go more in-depth. Artificial sweeteners were created in Switzerland in 1899, and since then the level of sugar in our food & beverage products has skyrocketed. At one point ads were even run to suggest sugar as a treatment for depression and boredom. Hence the saying, "Spoon full of sugar" from the 1964 musical Mary Poppins. Today we know that artificial sweeteners are largely healthier than granulated or liquid sugars. These artificial sweeteners are usually derived from plants like stevia and trigger the tastebuds without metabolizing in the liver. I say all of this to highlight that sugar-related illness in our community is not new, and it is not inevitable. Some very smart people with degrees and ethics, either intentionally or unintentionally, are poisoning generations with oversaturated products. We could use your help demanding healthier choices. #GreaterClevelandPartnership #ClevelandStateUniversity #CWRU #ClevelandClinic #DowntownDining #Fasthealthy #ClevelandCentralKitchen #Cityclube #ThisisCle #DestinationCleveland #EatlocalOhio #ClevelandFoodie #FoodBeverage #Cleveland #CityofCleveland #Freshfood #DeliveryRestaurants #SmallBusiness #Foodie2024

Myths and Facts about Drinking Myth 1: Everyone has a similar reaction to alcohol. Myth 2: Men and women, of similar height and weight, can drink the same amount of alcohol. Myth 3: A cold shower or hot coffee helps to sober you up. Myth 4: Switching between beer, wine and spirits gets you drunk quicker than sticking to one type of alcohol. Myth 5: Eating a big meal or oily food before drinking will keep you sober. Myth 6: Anyone who passes out from drinking should just ‘sleep it off’. Myth 7: Drinking more alcohol can help cure one’s hangover.

Wine 0.0 Who is driving the crusade against wine? Wine, which is history, culture, art, community, farmers, families. How is it conceivable the idea that wine is like sigarettes? To hide its label, to make the secular European industry freaking out and galloping in the direction of zero alcohol wine. Thousands of years of wine production, marketing and consumptionand today suddenly wine is the devil?! Not super-energy drinks, not social inequalities, not sugar rich everything, not screen addiction, No. Wine. I had the fortune to taste no alcoholic wine from one of the best wineries in Aragona, Spain. This is not wine. It does not feel like wine. The alcohol in the wine is part of our perception of the aroma and the structure of wine. You cannot get rid of alcohol and call it wine. Invest in education, on tradition on health on responsible drinking on history. Do NOT invest on stupid crusades against a 6000 old tradition that is an intrinsic part of human social life . #nonalcoholicwine #zeroalcoholwine