Well, 30 days have passed since I made my little pledge to try and kick the booze for a month and whilst I can’t say I’ve been 100% sober this month I’m well chuffed with how much I’ve cut back on drinking at home! Which, if you remember, was the main reason I decided to do this and make it a TWO month challenge instead of just for October.

Beavertown Lazer Crush : One of my FAVE AF beers 💛

I’ve been sharing updates every 10 days over on Instagram, which felt like a more manageable way to keep tabs on what I’ve been drinking and share new AF finds with you all. If you’ve been following along on there, I hope you’ve enjoyed the updates and found the lists of drinkypoos handy!

TRIP Peach and Ginger : Refreshing, tasty and although I’m not sure the CBD had any affect on me, it’s nice to believe a drink can calm you the fuck down!

I promised to do a full round up for September on here so it’s all in one place. I think it’s nice to look back and it gives me a chance to highlight some of my favourite finds this last month too. So, here’s the list of tasty beverages I’ve enjoyed - including the times I slipped up because it’s important to remember them too in this process!

Because tea by the sea is ALWAYS a winner!

🧃 Fizzy-Make-Feel-Good (Lucozade) 🧃

🍸 AF G&T 🍸

🥂 Nozeco 🥂

🧃 Can O’Water (Sparkling ✨) 🧃

🍺 No Worries Grapefruit AF Beer 🍺

🥂 Freixenet AF Fizz 🥂

🧃 Rhubarb Cawston Press 🧃

🍷 FAIL : Wine in a tin cup 🍷

🍺 Good Karma Beer Co 🍺

🍺 Beavertown Lazer Crush 🍺

Thirsty in Cambridge have an EXCELLENT selection of tasty AF beers, this Nirvana IPA was great!

🩸 All the cranberry things 🩸

🍺 Brooklyn Special Effects 🍺

🍺 Happy Pils - Good Karma Beer Co 🍺

🥭 No Worries Mango AF Beer 🥭

🍷 FAIL : Jam Shed wine 🍷

🍋 San Pellegrino Lemon & Mint 🍋

🍺 Nirvana Brewery IPA 🍺

🎫 Golden Ticket : wine with friends 🎫

🍑 Peach Ginger TRIP 🍑

🍺 Tool Implosion 🍺

I ordered myself a selection box from Square Root Soda and everything has been spot on! This Negroni Spritz maybe my fave so far though.

🍊 Square Roots Negroni Spritz 🍊

🍺 BrewDog Punk AF 🍺

🎫 Golden Ticket : Espresson Martini 🎫

🍺 + 🍷 Holiday Mode 🙃

💦 H2O and lots of it! 💦

☕️ Brews a plenty ☕️

🍊 Orangina 🍊

🍺 Pohjala Tundra IPA 🍺

🧡 Square Roots Ginger Beer 🧡

🍺 Omnipollo Konx AF Pale 🍺

Another corker from Thirsty and TO ØL are one of my fave breweries in general so I was well chuffed to find they had a delicious AF beer too!

So, here we are, September is done and I'm pretty much half way through my Sober challenge... well, SOBER-ISH Challenge! I mean, as I mentioned there were some slip ups and the last week of Sept was a bit of a shocker with golden tickets and being on holiday (more social drinking than I care to admit to!)

BUT the most important thing for me right now, is that I am feeling much more confident about kicking those bad, home-drinking habits! I don’t feel the ‘fuck it, I’m having wine tonight’ urge as often when I’ve had a stressful day and that’s AWESOME!

Anyway, I hope you’ve enjoyed looking over the list of the AF beverages I've enjoyed, the ear worm playlist I created on Spotify is also up to date and #SOBEROCTOBER - I'm ready for you!

Thank you all again for your cheerleading, drink suggestions and donations over the last four weeks! I hope the next four weeks whizz by just as successfully and you enjoy riding this little sober-curious rollercoaster with me!

If you’d like to donate the cost of a pint or whatever you can afford to help me further on my way to my fundraising target, you can do so via the link below:

https://www.gosober.org.uk/users/jo-want-2

THANK YOU ALL AGAIN!

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