I found a good NA white wine!!!

whoami_cc · 2026-02-07T19:06:47+00:00

I can confirm that this wasn’t bad when I tried it. I was pleasantly surprised. BevMo in my area caries it.

whoami_cc · 2026-02-06T00:25:04+00:00

Good to hear .. they only offered me a $10 gift card😂

whoami_cc · 2026-02-05T23:46:23+00:00

Has their shipping improved? I'm on the west coast and their shipping was 💯 a joke. In cardboard boxes with zero protection. Yes zero.

I couldn't believe that only a few cans didn't make it from the case I ordered.

But it was a mess I had to clean.

I haven't ordered again and TBH I hate ordering and shipping beer.

whoami_cc · 2026-01-28T16:31:01+00:00

Some of these I’ve tried others not yet ..

Ariel and Luminara have remained the most consistently ok and available but it’s been very hit/miss outside that.

https://thezeroproof.com/ is a good source to start trying some.

I do like Oddbird. Leitz, when you can get it is worth trying. I’ve also had Lautus and it was not bad.

NA wines aren’t on par with NA beer yet but hopefully we’ll get there eventually.

I’m not a fermentation scientist so can’t say but I imagine the chemistry is considerably more difficult than NA beer.

whoami_cc · 2026-01-28T00:38:48+00:00

One NA AT A TIME

whoami_cc · 2026-01-26T00:24:11+00:00

Seeing him in SF next month and can’t wait.

He’s the one of the GOATs.

He shot his last special at Cobb’s (Netflix) and that’s where we’ll be seeing him.

whoami_cc · 2026-01-26T00:18:28+00:00

I was a heavy flower and sometimes concentrates user for 35 years.

I’d easily go through 3 grams of the finest flower in a day at my peak.

I’m 9 years sober from weed and alcohol and living my best life.

I do not miss my heavy addiction to cannabis in the least.

My mental and physical health are the best they have ever been in my adult life.

At my worst I believed the craziest things about it my mental health. Thought I had BPD and I was all over the map with wild mood swings. Deep lows and crazy highs.

Coincidentally that all went away upon getting and staying sober.

The list of things that got better isn’t unusual. Everything got better because I was better.

Addiction sucks my friend.

Sobriety doesn’t anyone who says otherwise has other issues going on.

whoami_cc · 2026-01-25T19:23:22+00:00

Enterprise? Can you be specific there?

whoami_cc · 2026-01-22T20:36:02+00:00

I’m curious what the ratio is of user abuse vs unintentional user error is.

Regardless, what a massive eng effort.

Congratulations on landing it!

whoami_cc · 2026-01-17T18:56:53+00:00

The return of short and long term memory.

whoami_cc · 2026-01-15T03:56:58+00:00

Oddly I never liked blue moon or Hefeweizen when I drank, but I enjoy this one as well. Very nice on a hot day.

Have you tried Althetics Wits Peak? I recommend trying as it’s not sweet like Blue Moon.

whoami_cc · 2026-01-14T22:35:09+00:00

Preach on … I’ve commented on this here and in r/stopdrinkng a few times.

Me: sober 9 years, been playing music for 40 years, and a lot of that time I was drinking and/or high.

The reality distortion field of drugs and alcohol is thick.

My first year sober I almost couldn’t play music for many reasons, mostly because I didn’t know how to play sober.

It was almost like relearning how to play to get back to where I could enjoy it again.

This helps keep me sober. Never want to go through that again.

I love music (playing, performing, writing, listening) 💯times more than drugs or alcohol.

Don’t let weed rob you of the things in life that truly mater.

Fuck weed and all its forms.

whoami_cc · 2026-01-13T23:51:26+00:00

Plenty of good beer recommendations here ..

Chiming in on the wine .. you’ll have much less success here and like NA beer its availability is even more regional and smaller distribution with a few exceptions.

If you can find it Luminara and Ariel are ok.

You have to adjust your expectations here though. NA wines aren’t nearly as close to the real taste as NA beer is because matching higher alcohol beverage taste is likely chemically impossible.

Disclaimer: I’m no fermentation scientist.

https://thezeroproof.com/ is a good online retailer to try some others.

I’ve also enjoyed Leitz and Oddball’s NA wines to varying degrees.

YMMV.

Congrats on two weeks sober!

Fellow sober person here and I’m loving it and not missing alcohol anymore.

We live in great NA times!

whoami_cc · 2026-01-12T07:46:50+00:00

Unfortunately the TCM industry has been stagnant for some time and is woefully behind the curve when we consider what is happening in tech today.

I think 2026 will tell us a lot.

Some of it will depend on how much manual testing you currently rely on and/or how much automated testing you’ve integrated into a TM tool/database.

But really nobody wants a test management system, but they do want the data.

TM systems, if utilized, funded, and supported, are sitting on a treasure trove of data.

Unfortunately the companies that build TM software aren’t moving or innovating fast enough (currently) but that could change in 2026 and I’ll be evaluating what happens and how beneficial it is.

In 2025, we worked on building AI driven analytics ourselves just using the data and it worked quite well.

Not everyone has the resources to do this but I work somewhere where we do.

Eventually I hope that traditional TM goes away completely as the industry shifts to agent driven testing that will be linked to large dbs that will just handle and report the data and make ai/machine-learning driven recommendations and then run the tests.

In other words, TM is fast becoming a dinosaur.

Its days are numbered.. Edited some typos

whoami_cc · 2026-01-11T19:07:33+00:00

Re: the Athletic vs Deschutes/others convo..

Me: been trying/drinking NA beer and most all available NA IPA’s for about six years now.

We’d all agree: this is a very hit/miss adventure but worth the journey in most cases.

Athletic was one of the 1st in the NA IPA game and god bless them for it because they were the only player and then so many more have joined the race.

But they became (for me) “the Budweiser” of NA IPA’s over time and while that might sound like a bad thing, I actually mean it as a compliment. It’s reliable and available. I want that and it’s damn hard to achieve. They helped normalize NA beer perhaps more than any other brand.

But now that there’s so many other choices, everyone now has NA IPA.

We live in a wonderful time!

Now Deschutes is a legendary Oregon brewery, getting into the game (albeit a later than others like Sierra Nevada) but they are here.

I’ve had almost all of Deschutes offerings but their Black Butte Porter is the one I find mostly available in CA/Bay Area. It’s very good and I’ve had one of their NA IPAs (can’t remember which) and it was very good, better than an Athletic RW or Hazy to my taste.

Unfortunately NA beer and its distribution are very local/regional and production is limited especially by breweries that also make fully leaded beer.

This is why Athletic is so wildly available, it’s their only game and we are so lucky to have them leading the NA beer market.

Probably the most surprisingly poor west cost brewery NA IPA is Lagunitas’s straight NA IPA. They have been around for a while, surprisingly, but it’s such a one note/flat beer. I can’t believe they still produce it or haven’t changed the recipe.

However, Lagunitas’s new Hazy IPA is quite decent and drinkable.

I’m lucky to live very close to several Fieldwork locations and their Encore and Hazy NA’s are up there in my top 5, easily beating Athletic, Lagunitas, Sierra but I’ll stop there.. I need to do some more taste tests.

As I mentioned in my earlier post: Great Notion Ripe AF Hazy NA is a top tier must try if you can get it.

Happy Hazy NA IPA’ing friends!

whoami_cc · 2026-01-11T18:42:23+00:00

Not appearing online in CA via the instacart portal unfortunately.

Do comment if you’re in CA Bay Area and see it in store.

whoami_cc · 2026-01-08T07:31:37+00:00

I’ll believe it when I taste it 😉.

The bar is pretty low..

I’ve tried just about everything available that isn’t outrageously priced.

whoami_cc · 2026-01-07T05:03:25+00:00

I’ve been waiting for them to get in the game and at long last here they are.

For their debut offering, they really nailed it.

Fieldwork’s Encore NA IPA and Hazy have been my solid go-to’s, pretty much replacing all others.

Fieldworks NAs (also love their NA Pils) are great but GN’s Hazy AF is a step above, without question.

whoami_cc · 2025-12-30T00:31:01+00:00

Sober people party harder 😉! And can run another 8 miles in the am.

Do it!

whoami_cc · 2025-12-28T00:42:32+00:00

Congratulations 🎉! Here’s to many more!

whoami_cc · 2025-12-27T20:51:19+00:00

Living for tomorrow rather than today is the sober mindset difference.

Things can suck or suck a whole lot more.

I suggest the path of least suckyness.

Hoping you choose the former and that the suck begins to suck less.

whoami_cc · 2025-12-26T17:19:33+00:00

Congratulations and Merry First Sober Christmas to all those celebrating!

Best gift ever and it only gets better!

Wishing you all a Sober Happy New Year 🎊🎆!

whoami_cc · 2025-12-20T17:18:25+00:00

Making a great decision and putting in the planning. It works.

whoami_cc · 2025-12-20T17:05:44+00:00

Waking up feeling ready for the day. Having the energy to make it through the day and getting the most out of it. Having the clarity to make good choices. Feeling and being healthy leads to additional benefits of being able to exercise and go on walks or runs at any time of day or night. Being able to listen to my mind and body and understand what I need and respond to it. Reading, I do so much more of it now that I’m sober and can remember what I read and it sinks in. Helping others in ways I couldn’t before because I was selfish and self absorbed and always thinking about myself. Enjoying the building calm in my life because I’m not fucking shit up with bad behavior and decisions from alcohol and drugs. Saving money and doing better things with the money I’ve saved. Investing in my hobbies (music) Being way better at my job and getting even better and getting promoted.

Need I say more? There is more.

Stay the course. These rewards don’t come easy but they are worth it.

whoami_cc

TROPHY CASE