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If you dig a tiny bit into mixology, you'll notice the ludicrous amounts of sugar that goes into cocktails. An espresso martini has 80% of your daily sugar int
by slau 1y ago
If you dig a tiny bit into mixology, you'll notice the ludicrous amounts of sugar that goes into cocktails.
An espresso martini has 80% of your daily sugar intake. That's 25g of sugar. Moscow mule 75%, Sangria 70%. All of those in one single serving.
I'd wager most people don't stop at one drink.
Daiquiri has sugar. Espresso martini has sugar syrup. A gimlet has simple syrup. Irish coffee has sugar. Long Island Ice Tea has more sugar syrup than any single liquor. Mai Tai has simple syrup. Mojito has cane sugar.
- IAmBroom 1y agoYes, drinking mai tai's (which are incredibly rare drinks, BTW) is like ... drinking soda pop. Way too much sugar. So are other cocktails - similar to soda pop, except consumed in quantities of 4-12 oz instead of the 12-24 oz servings of pop. Arguing that alcohol is bad because many popular drinks have too much sugar is simply a bizarre take. It's like worrying about second-hand smoke from too much gun violence.
- slau 1y agoI was simply providing a counterpoint to the idea that mocktails contain too much sugar. My point was that (m|c)ocktails in general contain too much sugar, regardless of alcohol content.