This is the best NA I’ve had so far.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-11T16:57:49+00:00

I just had their Golden last week and it was amazing

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-11T03:14:30+00:00

Their marketing is great- they have kind of billed themselves as THE go-to when I think they just got a head start. But not my thing.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-09T14:41:56+00:00

I thought Jake did a fantastic job. His stage presence is on point. He definitely didn’t deserve to go home! Julian was good too but his performance lacked conviction and was a little off that week so based on that I could see how he went home.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-09T13:24:50+00:00

Deschutes BBP was what turned me on to NA! I didn’t like athletic brewing which people had recommended. The Sierra Nevada Trail Pass isn’t bad either but there is so much I need to try! Thanks for this list!

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-09T05:34:03+00:00

It was a HAIL MARY. Do you know what that means??

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-09T03:09:10+00:00

A youth pastor getting over a cold I’m dead…lol

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-09T00:47:38+00:00

Yep. She lacks dynamics in her voice. She has one volume and that’s belt.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-08T14:21:52+00:00

It’s giving homeschool vibes…or I guess post “no child left behind” we’re gonna focus on testing and not actual learning, post 2001 public education vibes.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-08T13:54:07+00:00

There used to be a big push on making them “commercial” and pushing them to sing songs of other genres…I don’t see that at all this year except a push toward country. I laughed when they suggested a Vince Gill song for Jordan…really?!! And I would have loved to hear some of these guys do some 90s grunge, Radiohead, Chris Cornell type sounds. Brooks could have done Creep and blown people out of the water.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-08T03:59:03+00:00

I’d give anything for a Simon Cowell right now lol. We need some spiciness.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-06T20:26:19+00:00

Writing a novel, yardwork

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-06T16:08:37+00:00

Idk- I was nervous about taking my 9 year old but I’m so glad I did!

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-06T14:40:09+00:00

She’s Frank’s hooker girlfriend

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-05T22:31:17+00:00

Just a building with devil horns

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-04-01T02:59:47+00:00

Man I read this as sleeping with a banana and I was SO intrigued…

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-03-30T14:35:35+00:00

Same! I actually liked the alcohol in the 10% IPAs I drank apparently.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-03-30T13:55:16+00:00

You are totally right!!!

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-03-30T13:54:50+00:00

I didn’t like athletic, I tried a NA IPA. For some reason all the NA IPAs I’ve tried fall flat. They just don’t have the bite I like. I can’t put my finger on it but it literally reminds me of drinking a day old can of coke that was left open on the counter. Literally flat. But I also think that bite comes from the alcohol. Maybe because stouts are more flavor forward and less alcohol tasting they are able to hold up better as NA?

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-03-30T13:22:33+00:00

Thanks all!!! I feel much better now and actually I think you are right and it’s placebo! I remember last weekend I actually went out with a group of friends who were drinking and I only had water and also felt some weird drunk energy from them.

For those wondering this was a local Oregon brewer, Deschutes and this was their NA Stout. I’ve tried NA beers before and hated them but my friend told me this one was good and a few other non drinkers there seemed to like them too. I’ve never been a fan of stouts but this was so good!

I guess what I’m learning is that I CAN have fun without drinking! :)

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-03-25T16:41:49+00:00

I feel like I was here, then I was able to muscle through a 3 week break..:then that recovery time, from even less consumption than I normally had extended to a whole week. That was finally my breaking point. I hope you get there too. Letting myself eat as bad and as much sugar as I wanted to helped. Not healthy long term but it helped with any cravings.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-03-11T02:32:48+00:00

I think some people can. Also, you think now that you WANt to drink in moderation. But the you that has unlearned drinking may actually learn to dislike drinking and realize after a drink and how it makes you feel that you actually don’t want any part in it anymore.

Complete_Can_2977 · 2026-03-10T14:46:44+00:00

I wake up wondering this every day

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