Is being sober finally trendy? Juice crawls are just one of many booze-free events in the US catering to millennials who are ditching the hooch in favor of clarity On a Saturday afternoon in Manhattan, Rachel Floyd and her boyfriend Paul Isham take a shot of a dark yellow liquid called Mother F*#%in Fireball. It kind of makes my leg hair follicles feel like theyre standing out, says Isham, a 33-year-old audio visual technician whose grey hoodie is decorated with a Bernie Sanders sticker and button. Floyd, who is wearing a Feel the Bern-themed Christmas sweater, throws back the small plastic cup. Oh man. I feel that right up here, she says, bringing her left hand over her head. The 26-year-old clinical psychology grad student is on her eighth shot of the day, but she could still pass a breathalyzer test. The Mother F*#%in Fireball is not the cinnamon whiskey teenagers steal from their parents around Christmas its an orange-based drink with a spicy kick from a mix of cayenne, ginger and oregano oil. Floyd is on a juice crawl, a monthly event in which participants hop to three different shops and sample more than 19 flavors with names such as Purple Rain and Dr Feelgood from 2oz plastic cups. Its just one of many booze-free activities that have popped up in major US cities to serve a growing number of young people who are ditching the hooch. This group is not full of recovering addicts, but rather people who value mindfulness, spandex and green juice. For those 35 and under, cutting back on booze no longer means social suicide. In addition to juice crawls, there are now sober day raves, alcohol-free bars, boozeless dinner and dance parties, and a sober social network that organizes group outings and launched a dating app so popular it has temporarily shut down. The long line outside of Shine, a booze-free event that combines food, water with Australian flower essences, meditation and enlightertainment (music, a talk and a film) is full of people who either do not drink or are trying to cut back. Since 2014, when the gathering was first launched in LA, Shine has spread to New York and now regularly sells out to crowds of more than 100 people, who the founder describes as mindful tastemakers and spiritually curious. from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/sober-is-the-new-drunk-why-millennials-are-ditching-bar-crawls-for-juice-crawls/
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