HEALTH BENEFITS WHEN STOP DRINKING ALCHOOL

HEALTH BENEFITS WHEN STOP DRINKING ALCHOOL –  Seeing how harmful alcohol can be to your health, starting to cut back on alcohol can go a long way in helping you avoid these dangerous risks. Not only that, you can also feel some other benefits from reducing alcoholic beverages.

Actually, alcohol has good benefits for the body, if taken in moderation. However, many of us actually abuse it, so that we don’t get the good benefits, but the bad effects. Short-term dangers that can occur due to excessive alcohol consumption include losing control of the body, the risk of having an accident, alcohol poisoning and committing acts of violence. Meanwhile, long-term dangers include damage to the liver, susceptibility to pancreatitis, decreased brain function, digestive system problems, and the risk of heart disease.

Seeing how harmful alcohol can be to your health, starting to cut back on alcohol can go a long way in helping you avoid these dangerous risks. Not only that, you can also feel some other benefits from reducing alcoholic beverages.

You sleep better.

Launching Well and Good, Thursday (9/12/2021), a clinical psychologist at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Brad Lander said, one of the biggest misconceptions about alcohol is that alcohol will help you sleep better. In fact, quite the opposite. Neuroscientist Kristen Willeumier says, although alcohol is calming at first, once metabolized, they can disrupt your sleep quality at night

This means that, although you may fall asleep faster at first, you are more likely to wake up in the middle of the night and miss REM sleep, the part of the sleep cycle that helps your brain and body recover. As a result, your energy level will have an effect. Scientific studies support this. In the study, they found that moderate and heavy drinking, both of which have been shown to lead to less REM sleep, especially if done consistently.

Some of The Most Expensive Alcoholic Drinks

Some of The Most Expensive Alcoholic Drinks – For alcoholic drink fans, how much is the price of an alcoholic drink that you have tried? Interested in trying the following most expensive alcoholic drinks in the world? The price can be up to billions!

In demand by some of the world’s population, this fermented drink does have different characteristics from other drinks.

This drink, has a very long, and arguably meticulous, manufacturing process. In addition, the storage area for this drink is also special, with a certain temperature.

So don’t be surprised, some brands have a very expensive price. Not only one, please note that there are many types of this drink.

So, if you want to buy or order at the bar, you can know what type to buy.

Types of Alcoholic Drinks

  • Tequila

The first type of alcoholic drink, is Tequila, which comes from the distillery, the center of the blue agave plant.

Although no added sugar, tequila already has a naturally sweet taste, because it has a high sugar content, and for its own alcohol content, around 40 percent.

  • Gin

Next up is gin, which is made from a mixture of berries and orange peels. This alcoholic drink, has an alcohol content of around 35-55 percent.

Generally, people consume gin, as the main ingredient, to make a martini mix.

  • Vodka

Who is not familiar with the type of alcoholic drink, namely vodka? The process of making this drink is by distilling the fermented dough.

For those who don’t know, the main ingredient of this drink is potatoes, and sometimes it is also mixed with fruit and milk.

As for its own alcohol content, vodka has an average alcohol content of about 40 percent.

  • Brandy

Not from comments or berries, brandy is made from grapes that have gone through a fermentation process.

This drink also goes through a distillation process, which usually has an alcohol content of around 40 percent. A well-known type of brandy drink, one of which is Cognac.

  • Whiskey

This drink, made from the distillation of grain dough, has been fermented at high temperature.

Furthermore, the whiskey is stored for (perhaps tens or hundreds of years), in oak barrels.

For the ethanol content in this alcoholic drink, it usually reaches 40-50 percent.

  • Rum

If in Indonesia, rum is better known as a cake-making ingredient. However, it turns out that rum is one type of alcoholic drink.

Rum is made by the distillation process of pure sugarcane, sugarcane juice, or molasses. After that, it is stored in wooden barrels, and rum has an alcohol content of about 40-75.5 percent.

  • Absinthe

Being a type of alcoholic drink, with the highest content at around 90 percent, absinthe is made from the distillation of a fermented herbal drink, and leaves.

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Levels of Alcohol that are Safe to Drink

Do not become unconscious, because of excess drinking, here are the safe levels of drinking alcohol according to its type:

  • Beer (with 5 percent alcohol: 355 ml maximum
  • Wine (with 12 percent alcohol): Approximately 148 ml maximum
  • Liquors, such as gin, rum, whiskey, tequila, or vodka (with 30-90 percent alcohol): Maximum 45 ml

The Most Expensive Alcoholic Drink in the World

For those of you who are curious, with the taste and sensation of alcoholic drinks, you can try one of the most expensive alcoholic drinks in the world below. The price can buy a luxury house and its contents!

1. Billionaire Vodka

The world’s first most expensive alcoholic drink is Billionaire Vodka. As the name suggests, ‘Billionaire’, which means that, this drink is especially for billionaires.

Originating from Russia, this drink is not made carelessly, because it has a secret recipe.

In fact, its authenticity has been tested, by many of the world’s drink and food critics!

Apart from the delicious taste of the drink, the bottle packaging is also very luxurious. Imagine, this Billionaire Vodka bottle, embedded with 3,000 Swarovski diamonds.

This bottle designer himself, is a famous designer from Rome, named Leon Verre.

So do not be surprised, if Leon set the price of this bottle plus drink, at Rp. 55 billion.

2. Pasión Azteca Platinum Liquor Bottle

The most expensive alcoholic drink in the world which is next is Pasión Azteca Platinum Liquor Bottle.

When it comes to alcoholic drinks, with the premium category, then the Pasión Azteca Platinum Liquor Bottle is the answer. Why?

Because this Anejo Tequila type drink is indeed made with the most premium variant, coupled with an extraordinarily beautiful packaging.

No less than the Billionaire Vodka, this bottle from the Pasión Azteca Platinum Liquor Bottle is covered with white gold and sprinkled with 6,400 diamonds.

Uniquely, this bottle is specially designed and exclusive. Don’t be surprised, if the drink plus the bottle is priced at $ 3.5 million or around Rp. 50 billion.

How? Want to try this drink, or is it better to invest and buy property?

3. Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grande Champagne

It’s no surprise, if you are a fan of alcoholic drinks, you have never tried a king-class alcohol drink collection, namely Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grande Champagne.

What’s the luxury? So, not cans, this Cognac drink will only be offered, if it is 100 years old. So, this drink has been famous since 1776.

Just like the previous bottles, this drink bottle is no less beautiful. Because, this bottle is decorated with platinum, 24 carat gold, and a sprinkling of 6,000 diamonds.

So do not be surprised, if the price can be priced at $ 2 million or around Rp. 26 billion per bottle.

4.The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926

For the most expensive alcoholic drink in the world, the top type of whiskey is The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926.

Still very popular today, maybe no one can even match, The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926.

The year that is written on this drink, is not only the beginning, this brand was founded, but also the year when this drink began to be propagated.

In addition, the bottle label was designed by Valerio Adami himself, and only 12 bottles of this whiskey were produced.

For the price, don’t ask. Because at the time of the auction early last year, at the Bonhams Whiskey Sale (Edinburgh, Ireland), it had reached £ 848,000 or around Rp. 17 billion.

5. The Winston Cocktail

The next most expensive alcoholic drink in the world, comes from Australia, namely The Winston Cocktail.

There is a meaning of the name Winston, which is to remind us of the legendary British prime minister, Winston Churchill.

Meanwhile, Churchill once enjoyed a drink Cognac Croizet 1858, Cuvee Leonie.

It is also known that Croizet itself is a type of cognac, the most expensive in the world. The price of this drink is $ 12,916 or around Rp. 175 million per glass.…

This Alcoholic Drink Wants to go Global

This Alcoholic Drink Wants to go Global – Apart from being known for its culinary delights and variety of spices, Indonesia also has several local alcoholic fermented drinks that have been around for a long time. Original Indonesian fermented drinks are usually made from sap water from palm trees.

Starting from NTT sopi, Balinese wine, Cap Tikus Minahasa, and many more. The existence of fermented drinks is usually enjoyed by the community during traditional events in an area.

However, now local fermented drinks have undergone many developments, variants and the existence of permits, standards and supervision from the government that makes these local drinks more active.

One of the local fermented drinks that has received permission to circulate is Cap Tikus 1978 from Minahasa. As the only mouse stamp that has a license to circulate, Head of Marketing for Cap Tikus 1978 Mario Baraputra said that the product began officially launching in December 2018.

Even though it had not been a year since Cap Tikus 1978, it now has a market all over Indonesia. Papua is the market most supplied with this 45% alcoholic beverage.

“The most supplies to Papua are a lot. So every month you can send 2 to 3 containers there,” said Mario who was met by Kontan.co.id.

Cap Tikus 1978 began to penetrate markets outside North Sulawesi in February. The retail price of Cap Tikus 1978 was Rp. 80 thousand, measuring 320 ml. With the development of the times and since the permit was issued, Cap Tikus 1978 gave a different touch with a unique packaging innovation.

The bottle design is made attractive so that it is not inferior to fermented beverage products from abroad that have been flooding Indonesia for a long time. Not only design, innovation is also carried out in flavor variants. Mario explained that the plan is that next month Cap Tikus 1978 will release a new flavor, namely the coffee rat stamp.

“In addition to the taste of coffee, there is also a bartender sachet. So this is a model like a sachet every time you buy one free bottle of one sachet with a different taste. There is a formula of 8, there are spices with ginger ginger and others, the sensation is hot, like herbal medicine. There will be 5 variants of the sachet later. , “continued Mario.

In one day Cap Tikus 1978 was able to produce 5000 bottles, supplies to the province as many as six containers or around 12 thousand cartons. One carton contains 12 bottles of mouse caps.

Mario explained that the raw materials for Cap Tikus 1978 were obtained from the sap farmers who paid their money to the factory. “We are 100% farmers, empowered farmers, our factory is only distillation, our mission to make this product is to help farmers. So this can be said to be one of the livelihoods of the Minahasa people,” said Mario.

The current trend of local fermented drinks, called Mario, began to creep up, especially after the support from the government for this original Indonesian fermented drink.

“This is increasing, yes, because we are supported by the customs government. The current government is quite strict on illegal drinks, so we hope that with the regulation that prohibits illegal drinks, legal local products can develop, can compete in the Indonesian market,” said Mario.

Not only penetrating all of Indonesia, Cap Tikus 1978 has also received offers abroad, namely the Chinese bamboo curtain country. However, currently Cap Tikus 1978 is still in the stage of preparing a permit for export to China.

Even though the trend of authentic Indonesian fermented drinks has begun to crawl, there are also challenges that are felt. Mario said that education about what a rat stamp is for people in Western Indonesia is now a homework that is felt.

“For those of us who live in the western region of Indonesia, we don’t really know the rat stamp. So we have to give product knowledge. People will definitely ask what the rat stamp is. How come the name of this mouse is what people would ask like that. There is a long time ago. In terms of the popularity of the local rat stamp, it’s a spirit that many people know, “explained Mario.

Another local fermented drink is Balinese arak. One of the villages in Bali, namely Les Buleleng Village, has many local fermented beverage home industries made from sap. The potential for local fermented drinks is read by the Kitchen Bali Mula brand.

One of the employees of the Bali Kitchen, Mula Nyoman Nadiana, said that fermented drinks themselves have been around for a long time and have been a tradition passed down from generation to generation. Unlike Cap Tikus 1978 which had already obtained a permit, arak from Les Village is now struggling to get permission to circulate.

“We collect drinks. We put the jars in class and we will open them later. Everyone is just waiting for permission. We are still very traditional so the taste is different from the others because we still use bamboo, that’s why our wine is yellow,” said Nyoman.

Just like Cap Tikus 1978, innovation is also carried out in order to continue to exist. Another taste of Bali Desa Les arak besides the original is jackfruit wine. Regarding the taste of jackfruit, it is explained that it is an innovation that arises from the abundance of jackfruit at harvest in Les Village.

“30 to 40% alcohol content, some 53% only the alcohol content is the influence of the weather because we still experience that we haven’t used machines. In summer it can be high in alcohol content. We are struggling to get permission,” said Nyoman.

The Les Village arak market itself is new in the Bali region because the proposed permit has not been issued. In addition to fermented drinks, there is also a Juruher which is called Nyoman as no less than the maple syrup abroad.

“Even if we don’t lose, sweet palm wine is not inferior to mapple syrup, palm wine turns into sugar. There are two types of lontar for girls and boys that produce boys. After that, tuak is cooked with wood into the sauce, why does it turn into sweet tuak or that way, boil it until it becomes half caramel. Maple syrup Bali, “said Nyoman while showing Juruh.

The production of fermented drinks in Les Village itself, especially in the Bali Mula Kitchen, is that for every 100 bottles of sap that the village farmers deposit, 60% will be made of fermented drinks and 40% will be made as whole. The price itself is very affordable, namely one 600 ml bottle costs IDR 125 thousand.

“If you look at it, the profit is small but proud because this is a local drink and preserves local culture. If we count our business, we can say that we have lost because of using bamboo, there must be bamboo that drains the liquid. But we are proud because it preserves tradition and also empowers the community,” Nyoman said.

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Just like Mario, Nyoman also agrees that the trend of fermented drinks is growing. Fresh air from the government which increasingly makes fermented drinks is also seen as a tourism product.

“Actually, people’s mindset is that it is not safe to drink, but what is wrong is how to drink, if it is not true it is not safe, even though we make everything naturally,” said Nyoman.

Currently, the challenge that Nyoman says is the availability of raw materials. The production of fermented drinks is carried out during the first semester or summer. This is because many home industries are still very natural in manufacturing which makes the rainy season an obstacle.

In the future Mario and Nyoman hope that the potential for local fermented drinks will increasingly exist, the higher the government’s attention will make the negative stigma disappear.

It is emphasized that fermented drinks are a culture or tradition that has existed since our ancestors. Even Cap Tikus 1978 can now be found in airport stores in Minahasa as souvenirs.…