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Homemade Pink Lemonade

Love pink lemonade? Want to know how to make homemade pink lemonade from scratch? It's easier than you think and oh so refreshing.

Homemade Pink Lemonade

Serves about 4 glasses

Ingredients

1/2 cup sugar

4 lemon peel segments * (please see note below)

5-1/2 cups water divided

2 cups freshly squeezed lemon juice about 10-12 lemons

1/4 cup cranberry juice

1/8 teaspoon salt

Instructions

In a small saucepan, combine sugar, lemon peel segments, and 1/2 cup water. Bring to a boil over medium high heat. Simmer until sugar is dissolved, then remove from heat.

In a large pitcher, combine remaining water, lemon juice, cranberry juice, and salt.

Remove lemon peel segments from the simple syrup. Add to lemonade. Stir to combine.

Pour lemonade through a fine mesh sieve to remove any pulp, if desired.

Serve chilled.

**Note: It is the lemon peel, but not from the entire lemon. I used a vegetable peeler and peeled just a few thin slices. You just want the top-most layer. The white part of the peel is bitter and could give your drink a weird taste.

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Happy Trails

I have told you before of my life-long preoccupation with the brewing industry. Well, at least since the age of 15, when I started collecting beer cans and all the other related stuff we call “breweriana.” My father and grandfather both drank beer, so it was something I was already accustomed to seeing around the house.

It’s just that once I started collecting, my father kind of got into it as well, buying six-packs of virtually every odd brand we would see. I had a huge stash down in the basement near my shelves, which it seemed I was always building more. And, being a young guy, I always managed to sneak a few cans for personal consumption. I am pretty sure I was the envy of all the other guys I knew, because I could just ask Dad to buy more. For the collection, you know.

Some of those items he would buy were from a small niche category, “near beer,” which meant it had not more than 0.5% alcohol by law. In some instances they were also marketed as “cereal beverages,” which sounds like last week’s corn flakes. There was a stigma, though, attached to drinking these near beers. They were what your uncle with the drinking problem was stuck sipping, or, the poor dude who just had a DUI. No self-respecting beer drinker would otherwise be caught dead with one.

Funny how things have changed, though, and a new generation of what are now called N/As—or non-alcohols—are growing wildly. So wildly, in fact, that earlier this year they were predicted to overtake regular ales in sales.

As you might expect based on our many previous blog discussions, this sales increase is fueled by an overall trend toward healthier living and mindful drinking, as well as Gen-Zers and Millennials simply not drinking alcohol at all. The result today is that all of the major breweries worldwide, and many of the larger craft breweries here in the States, have an N/A on the shelves.

And all this week I have been sipping Sierra Nevada’s Trail Pass, a delightfully refreshing and tasty alternative to the boozier ales I normally consume.

Whaaaat, DrG? Have you given up on real beer?

Not so fast there! It’s just that today I am participating in a 25K/15M trail run down in Palo Duro Canyon, and as part of the lead-up this week, I dropped alcohol and spicy food from my diet, and also doubled down on rest and sleep. I want my body to be as clear, pure, and rested as possible, no alcohol fog, no unsettled tummy, etc. I want to put on my best game face and give it my all, or as much as a 66-year-old dude can give. I will be happy with finishing. A speedy time is gravy.

But what about after the race, you ask? I am pretty certain that my step-daughter, who came from Florida nearly six weeks ago to train for the 50K event here, and I will head to Sad Monkey Mercantile for a cold one or two. It is OK to celebrate, as well as to drown one’s sorrows if things don’t go as planned.

Beyond that, though, I am going to weave more and more of these Trail Passes into my regime. They sell them by the can at my local brewery. I can be sociable with my pals, and since they pour it into a glass and toss the can, no one is the wiser that I am consuming an N/A. Not that it matters, of course.

I can see a two-beer limit in my future, followed by as many Trail Passes I want. Heck, I am thinking about weaving in some completely N/A days during the week. Why not? I actually like these. They taste infinitely better than the near beers of my youth, and they have far fewer calories than standard beers. Gotta look after my boyish figure, you know.

For the tiny amount of alcohol in each serving, I figured I would have to drink 14 of them to equal the alcohol in one of my favorite hazy IPAs at said brewery. I would be camped out in the Men’s Room long before I could become inebriated.

It’s good to see this niche product exploding in sales, and it is all because of changing consumer demand. As the 70s-era rock band Rush once sang in Tom Sawyer, “Changes aren’t permanent…but change is.”

I’ll drink to that.

Dr “Hitting The Trail” Gerlich

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Partake's Non-Alcoholic Peach Gose

Partake’s Non-Alcoholic Peach Gose

It’s summertime, and here is how you can be a hero at your next backyard BBQ and pool party, bring a case of Partake Brewing non-alcoholic beers. Not only do they offer exceptional taste, but they are very low in calorie count (10-35 calories per can), and they are made with vegan all-natural ingredients. Partake beers provide inclusivity in a social setting for those who choose not to drink…

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