{"id":443,"date":"2020-05-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/?p=443"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T11:38:04","slug":"mindful-drinking-drifters-alcohol-free-buchu-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/2020\/05\/27\/mindful-drinking-drifters-alcohol-free-buchu-gt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindful drinking: Drifter&#8217;s alcohol-free buchu G&#038;T"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>#NoWineWednesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drifterbrewing.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Drifter Brewing Company<\/a> launched its alcohol-free buchu gin and tonic at Cape Town\u2019s Mindful Drinking Festival in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the popularity and growing global trend of 0% health-conscious drinks, the Drifter team realised the importance of adding a non-alcoholic version to its core product lineup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the past year, we\u2019ve often been asked if we have plans to make any alcohol-free editions of our range,\u201d says Drifter\u2019s head brewer Zared Rogers. \u201cSo we decided to do exactly that with one of our most popular drinks: the buchu gin and tonic. After all, an ice-cold G&amp;T is the definition of a South African summer, and now everyone can enjoy it regardless of whether they are drinking alcohol or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alcohol-Free-Buchu-Bottle-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alcohol-Free-Buchu-Bottle-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alcohol-Free-Buchu-Bottle-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alcohol-Free-Buchu-Bottle-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alcohol-Free-Buchu-Bottle-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alcohol-Free-Buchu-Bottle-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alcohol-Free-Buchu-Bottle-650x976.jpg 650w, https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alcohol-Free-Buchu-Bottle-scaled.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The drink is infused with buchu, a fynbos plant only found in the Western Cape mountains and believed by the indigenous Khoe people to be an elixir of youth due to its medicinal properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bottle offered by Drifter is pre-mixed, carbonated and ready to be poured over ice with citrus, cucumber, or botanicals. It is lower in calories and sugar than the original and contains zero alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drifter Brewing Company launched its alcohol-free buchu gin and tonic in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atableforone.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}