New year, new booze at Brown Bag Liquor
To quote one of the greatest partiers of our time: “The party don’t start ’til [you] walk in,” and it doesn’t have to stop just because you have New Year’s resolutions to maintain. We often look at drinking as an inhibitor to meeting a New Year’s goal like weight loss, but it doesn’t have to be. With the following low-calorie, low-carb and low-sugar cocktails, wines and seltzers currently stocked on our shelves and available online, you can live a high-octane lifestyle in January without sacrificing your favorite beverages. (Disclaimer: We are not doctors or weight-loss experts. We are just a liquor store providing you with healthier drinking alternatives for the new year!)
Cocktail of the Month: Easy Breezy Bota Box Spritz
Our first Cocktail of the Month in 2022 is a Brown Bag original. We’re calling it the Easy Breezy Bota Box Spritz, and it is every bit as refreshing as it sounds. To make this concoction, first you’ll need 5oz. of Bota Box Breeze Pinot Grigio. A light white wine that isn’t short on flavor, what it lacks in calories and carbs (80 and 3.3g per serving, respectively), it more than makes up for with its tasteful hints of citrus and peach aromas. Top it with Mighty Swell Peach, a spiked seltzer that has 100 calories per serving and 3g carbs per serving. Voilà! The healthy version of the Easy Breezy Bota Box Spritz is complete. And if you want to sweeten it up just a tad, we recommend using Trolli Peachie-O’s as a garnish. Because life is about balance, okay!
Skinnygirl Margaritas and Wine
Created by reality TV star Bethenny Frankel, Skinnygirl Cocktails is one of the biggest names in the low-calorie cocktail space. With margaritas, cosmos and wine options on our shelves, Skinnygirl truly makes options for everyone. We recommend trying the Skinnygirl Grapefruit Margarita first, as it’s truly the brand’s bread and butter. The tangy treat uses premium Silver tequila to create a drink as delicious as the original, but with only 100 calories per serving. We’ll just be over here patiently waiting for them to release Skinnygirl beer.
Cupcake LightHearted
Cupcake Vineyards is another household name in wine, and their LightHearted lineup boasts all the taste of their fan favorites with only 80 calories per serving. At Brown Bag, you can find Cupcake Lighthearted in its Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Rosé and Pinot Noir flavors – each one more temptatious than the last. Lucky for you, each serving contains 8% but only less than 1 gram of sugar. Not bad. Not bad at all.
White Claw and Truly Hard Seltzers
Last but not least on our list are the hard seltzers that have taken the world by storm, and with good reason. With endless flavors and only 100 calories per serving, White Claw has become one of the biggest household names by offering a plethora of tastes but keeping the calories at a minimum. Not far behind in everyone’s hearts and minds is Truly, which also boasts a wide range of variety packs and flavors. Some of Truly’s greatest hits include its Berry and Citrus variety packs, and as of late the Lemonade and Iced Tea variety packs have gained popularity in equal measure. While hard seltzers may induce feelings of sunshine and summertime, we’ve concluded from our own studies that they both taste just as good in the wintertime.
In-Store Tastings:
Below is our schedule* for in-store tastings in January, aka the best way to wind down a busy work week on Fridays!
January 14: Sparkling Ice Spiked Variety 12 pack – Original Variety & Winter Variety (4-6pm)
January 28: Sparkling Ice Spiked Variety 12 pack – Original Variety & Winter Variety (4-6pm)
*Schedule subject to change. We may add more dates!
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