Daily Dose of AA

By Heather Aucker

As the dusk of Halloween night creeps closer to bring out the scary ghoul in most of us, what better way to enjoy the holiday with some festive cocktails. Here is a list of 10 fab-boo-lous Halloween drinks that will bring the dead back to life.

By Heather Aucker

Who is this “moderation” everyone keeps saying to drink with? If you have experienced a hangover, you might want to consider moderation a drinking buddy. Waking up with a grueling headache, muscle aches, fatigue, nausea, and an overall horrible mood, usually sets the tone for a challenging day after a night of over-indulged drinking. Of course, moderation is the key to dodging the aftermath of too much alcohol, but it is also valuable to know which types of alcohol and drinks to stay clear of and why they cause so...

By Heather Aucker

Most of the time when you sit down at a bar and order a drink, you assume that the bartender is a human encyclopedia of drink recipes. Unfortunately, that is not the case for many bartenders. Even in the time of having instant information at the plumb of our hands, it’s still surprising when a bartender has never heard of a drink that was ordered. For instance, my family and I were at a restaurant and my 83 year old grandfather ordered a Gibson and the bartender had never heard of it!  This incident made...

First off, welcome to Daily Dose of AA. Okay enough, it’s my time to shine. So yeah, it was the Summer of 2019 at the University of Minnesota when I met the Dave Portnoy of Save Our Livers, Christian Durfee. We became friends -- partied, partied some more, you get it. It was my first year of college and I wasn’t going to let it go to waste. It was one morning during Sunday Cleaning (after a party that involved blacking out) when I told him how much I despised of alcohol and that I would never touch it again,...