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I've found kombucha also scratches the same itch for me. There's a wide variety from plain to floral to fruity to herby. It's also a nice bonus that it has the opposite effect on my gut than alcohol.

I switched from beer in the evenings to kombucha. I feel so much better the next morning.

I wonder if there's anything that can pay the rent.

Bars sell a lot of $7 beer and $10 cocktails. Can you make money with tea or another replacement? If bars diminish... will there be another establishment that people go to? or, more likely I fear, everyone will just stay home.

100 cals in a calorimeter but your body isn't able to metabolize all of it. Especially if you are binge drinking, you overload how fast you can metabolize ethanol and some of it gets released in partially-metabolized states.