8 Things That Happen When You Stop Drinking Alcohol
As you no doubt know—and maybe your liquor cabinet even bears this out—there has been no drinking like pandemic drinking. Alcohol sales, according to Nielsen data, famously climbed 54 percent in the week ending March 21, 2020.
And your body chemistry is designed in a way that doesn’t help. Anxiety and depression from big, stressful events (take your choice this year) can, for some people, bring on a desire to do impulsive things like drink too much (read all about how this biology works here). It doesn’t help that drinking, for a hot minute, makes you feel better (but worse in the long term.)
So maybe by now, you’re thinking about taking a break from drinking for a bit, but need to know exactly what that break can do for you. A lot more than you think, probably.
Enhancing the experience further, they’ve launched the cocktail calendar this month. Owner Arjun Sagar Gupta and Chef Ruchira Hoon have created a menu that pairs the notes of the drink in your hand with the music you’re listening to. That can only mean one thing – diverse flavours coming together to form this vibrant cocktail calendar. The Singhal Malt is a take on the traditional whiskey sour; the lemon juice, sugar, and whiskey mix is accompanied by a generous addition if cinnamon, packing in a spicy punch.
Others include Grey’s Gimlet with hints of tangy and spicy; DJ’s Cliffhanger — a tangy concoction of gin, honey, kaffir lime, basil, bitters, orange juice, and tonic water. Not just a coming together of music and mixers, the menu also channels zero waste of ingredients and makes fresh, in-house bitters.