It is difficult to imagine New Year's holidays without a festive table with an abundance of various dishes and drinks. Traditionally, sparkling wine is poured into crystal glasses to the chimes, and then each guest uses what he likes best. In this article, we will tell you what you can drink for the New Year, what alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are suitable for the festive table, and also reveal the secrets of how to avoid a headache on January 1.
New year without alcohol
When compiling your menu, pay special attention not only to hot dishes and snacks, but also to drinks. Most cannot imagine a New Year's feast without alcohol. The desire to drink alcohol is due to the fact that on a holiday you want to relax, forget about daily problems, and enjoy a good company. But even without strong drinks, you can celebrate the New Year in an interesting and fun way, because it is not degrees that create the mood.
For what reasons the holiday is celebrated without alcohol:
- complete rejection of alcohol-containing products;
- being behind the wheel;
- the need to go on a trip or work in the morning;
- a disease in which alcohol is contraindicated (ulcer, gastritis, diabetes, etc.);
- incompatibility of alcohol with some drugs.
A pregnant woman at the festive table can be offered dried fruit compote, homemade smoothies, juice. If the expectant mother really wants to create the feeling of a real holiday, it is allowed to drink half a glass of children's champagne.
If you are determined not to drink alcohol at the festive table, inform everyone present. Relatives and friends will understand, will not condemn for such a choice and compulsively offer to drink with them.
In order not to get bored on New Year's Eve, prepare in advance an entertainment program, competitions, music for dancing. All guests will surely have fun even without alcohol, because it is not alcohol that makes the evening fun, but good company and exciting activities.
What soft drinks can you drink for the New Year:
- Fruit drink, juice, compote, lemonade, smoothies. Making healthy natural drinks at home is not difficult: it will take a minimum of ingredients and very little time.
- Various cocktails. Bright and tasty necks are obtained not only from alcohol, while they will delight both adults and children.
- Non-alcoholic mulled wine. Few people know that a warm, winter drink can be prepared from fruit and berry juices with the addition of honey, cinnamon, cloves and other spices.
Homemade drink recipes are pretty straightforward in most cases. How can you surprise guests and please relatives:
- black currant fruit drink;
- New Year's orange juice with cinnamon;
- frozen raspberry drink;
- citrus lemonade;
- apple-mint drink;
- ginger lemonade;
- blueberry smoothie;
- milkshake;
- tropical fruit shake;
- berry lemonade.
When soft drinks are ready, they must be poured into suitable containers. Cocktails, fresh juices and smoothies are served in tall glasses, and fruit drinks, lemonade, compote are poured into jugs or bottles. Since the dishes with drinks will be on the New Year's table, it is advisable to decorate them beautifully. You can use shiny snowflakes, gold or silver paint, tinsel, ribbons.
Entrust the decor of bottles to children - they will be happy to decorate clay jugs or hang tinsel on the necks of containers.
What to drink from alcohol?
On New Year's Eve, champagne is an obligatory attribute of any party or home feast.If guests are going to consume a sparkling drink throughout the night, you need to purchase champagne in advance at the rate of 1.5-2 bottles per person. Not necessarily every guest will drink such an amount, but it is better to let the drink remain than it will not be enough for the New Year's holiday.
The choice of champagne for the New Year, and where did the tradition of drinking this drink come from?
Usually sparkling wine is poured at 12 o'clock in the morning for the annual ritual: to raise the glasses to the chimes, make a wish, congratulate those present on the holiday under the crystal ringing. In this case, a few bottles of champagne will come in handy, and then guests are offered other drinks of different strengths.
What other drinks, besides champagne, are usually present on the New Year's table:
- Wine. Nutritionists recommend varieties without carbon dioxide: they are more useful, and the intoxication from consumption is not so strong. What wine is better to choose for the New Year celebration? It is believed that natural dry with a strength of no higher than 12 degrees is suitable for a festive table: "Bordeaux", "Riesling", exquisite Georgian varieties with tart notes, etc. Also for the New Year you can buy several bottles of dessert wine: "Madera", " Massandra "," Tokay ", etc.
- Vodka. Fans of strong alcohol are encouraged to choose high quality products for the New Year's table. You should not save on a 40-degree drink, so as not to suffer from a headache the next day. Vodka is served in small glasses, since the contents are drunk immediately, without stretching. Ice is not added to a strong drink, but the liquid is served well chilled.
- Whiskey. Connoisseurs of aged malt drink prefer to drink it neat with the addition of cooling cubes. Some people mix whiskey with cola or apple juice.
- Cognac. Noble alcohol is made from grape juice. It is correct to use cognac at the end of the party, without a snack, pre-warming the glass with the contents in your palms.
- Liquor. Sweet varieties are served as a digestive for dessert, while bitter and tart varieties are served as an aperitif at the beginning of a festive dinner. The drink is poured into a small glass with a stem, serving temperature - 12-20 ° C. Liqueur is also often added to other cocktail ingredients.
- Martini. The herbal-flavored drink is admired not only by women, but also by men. Martini is served in special glasses on legs, neat or diluted with vodka, champagne, juice, ice.
Recipes for alcoholic and non-alcoholic New Year's cocktails
The tradition of drinking champagne for the New Year
There is no exact answer to the question of why it is customary to drink champagne on New Year's Eve. If you recall the history, the New Year's holiday was introduced by Peter the Great, although it was celebrated not with a traditional feast, but with gorgeous balls. But sparkling wine began to be consumed on the night of December 31 to January 1 already in the 60s of the XX century. When the government decreed that every family should have a bottle of champagne on the New Year's table, mass production of this drink began.
Since then, countries have been consuming 45-50% of sparkling wines from the total annual turnover for the New Year.
It is worth noting that champagne has been loved in our country for a long time. In the 19th century, all bohemia and the highest nobility drank only sparkling wine and exclusively chilled, since then they had not yet learned how to completely get rid of the sediment. French champagne was available only to a select few because of the too high cost.
The choice of sparkling wine for the New Year's table is everyone's business, but for a large number of guests whose preferences are unknown, it is better to purchase semi-sweet and sweet drinks. If you want to surprise those present at the celebration, present a glass of blue Platino champagne (Garcia Carrion, Italy).
How much to drink for the New Year?
A large number of holiday meals and heavy alcohol consumption can negatively affect your health and well-being. Doctors advise the following:
- Eat a light salad, a few fruits, or a couple of sandwiches a few hours before the meal. Drinking alcohol on an empty stomach will lead to rapid drunkenness and a severe hangover in the morning.
- It is better to drink one type of drink without mixing it with another alcohol. Or start with low alcohol, gradually increasing degrees.
- Go out into the fresh air more often, move more, do not sit for a long time at a covered table.
- To avoid a headache on the morning of January 1, it is better to avoid excessive consumption of sparkling wines, beer and other carbonated drinks.
There is an individual measure for the amount of alcohol that can be drunk. A glass of light wine is enough for someone to feel drunk, while someone drinks a bottle of champagne and will feel good. The main thing is to listen to your feelings and not abuse alcohol.
Sale of alcohol for the New Year
In Russia, there is a federal law, according to which a ban on the sale of alcoholic and low-alcohol drinks is in effect in stores from 11 pm to 8 am. In the regions, the authorities have the authority to extend the time frame during which it is impossible to purchase alcohol at night. On holidays, a complete ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages is often imposed.
In Moscow, the taboo on the sale of alcoholic beverages at night applies only to shops. In which establishments you can buy alcohol at night:
- restaurants;
- Cafe;
- bars.
But this does not mean that in any of the nightclubs it is possible to buy a bottle of a strong drink and go home to drink it. In restaurants, bars and cafes, after 23 o'clock, bottles are served only open, so the contents will have to be drunk within the walls of the institution.
Many are interested in the question of how long alcohol will be sold on New Year's Eve. The sale of alcoholic beverages in the New Year is carried out in accordance with the Federal Law, that is, from 11 pm to 8 am, the sale of alcohol is prohibited.
Can I give alcohol?
A bottle of good champagne can be the perfect New Year's present. It is better to choose a drink in a gif.webpt box with two beautiful glasses included. It is not necessary to buy expensive sparkling wine as a gif.webpt. For example, Lambrusco with glasses in beautiful packaging can be purchased at a very reasonable price. When choosing corporate gif.webpts for the New Year, pay attention to Kanti Asti - a great idea how to congratulate colleagues, management and business partners.
If you don't know which type of sparkling wine to choose, buy sweet or semi-sweet champagne - this is always a win-win option. Pay attention to the Italian and Spanish producers, although they also produce high-quality sparkling wines, which are quite suitable as a New Year's gif.webpt.
Riddles about alcoholic drinks with answers for the New Year
To entertain guests and have fun on New Year's Eve from the heart, we offer several funny alcoholic riddles with answers:
Does it really happen
Who reduces the power of the genie?
(Tonic)
What is the grain that went through fire, water and copper pipes?
(Moonshine)
And now we will answer clearly,
What is vodka served in?
(Glass)
What shall we drink for overclocking?
No, not moonshine.
Who shoots, hooligan?
Surely…
(Champagne)
To create an unusual accent,
We'll set the green on fire …
(Absinthe)
The holiday is coming to an end
Morning is already coming.
It's time to lie down on the side
But you need to drink …
(Cognac)
New Year's contests with alcohol
Holidays can take place in different formats: in a close, family circle or in a noisy company, but often the New Year's feast is accompanied by drinking alcohol. At the same time, alcoholic beverages can be used as props for fun contests. The main thing is that the entertainment is not competitive: "Who can drink more."Otherwise, the participants will quickly fail, then the holiday will end for them.
What can be alcohol contests:
- "Connoisseur of alcoholic beverages." Entertainment is best done early in the evening to help guests relax and get in the mood for fun. Prepare a tray, a piece of thick fabric, scarves or shawls, as well as several different alcoholic beverages (preferably at least 6-7). The host brings out a tray with filled glasses covered with cloth. Then the participants are blindfolded and they must use their sense of smell to guess which drinks are poured into the glasses. The competition can be complicated by adding glasses of water, compote, juice or other soft drinks to the tray.
- "Alcoholic bones". The good thing about the game is that everyone at the New Year's table can play it: you don't even need to get up from their seats. She will surely appeal to both young people and representatives of the older generation. Each participant throws dice and, depending on the number of points dropped, performs a certain task: drink a glass of water, treat a glass of alcohol to the neighbor on the left, say a New Year's toast, drink a glass offered by the neighbor on the right, etc.
- "Fast pharmacist". Prepare measuring cups, glasses of alcohol, and pipettes. The host of the competition announces that Santa Claus is ill, and he urgently needs to prepare medicine. But such an important assignment can only be entrusted to the fastest pharmacist. At the signal, the participants from the glasses with the help of a pipette should pour all the alcohol into measuring cups. Whoever does it first is declared the winner and receives a prize.
Poems about New Year and alcohol
New Year's poems can be humorous and funny, but first you need to make sure that the recipient of the funny greeting has a good sense of humor.
I wish you a New Year
Distillery,
Bentley, yacht, big house,
Photo in Playboy.
Rest in the Maldives,
Lying with a cocktail on the beach.
To Santa Claus,
Everything I said brought.
If suddenly on the New Year
Strange grandfather will come to you
In a warm fur coat, with a beard,
All smiling like that.
With a granddaughter and a big bag
On a sleigh, not on foot.
And will look with a kind look,
No more drinking, my friend.
What do they drink for the New Year in different countries?
In many countries, the coming of next year is not celebrated the way. The main holiday in many European countries (Germany, England, etc.), as well as in the USA, is Christmas, for which they carefully prepare and celebrate on a large scale. But in Bulgaria, Holland, Czech Republic on New Year's Eve, everyone is having fun with all the heart.
Residents of different countries in the New Year traditionally prefer to drink champagne. A bottle of sparkling wine is opened at the very beginning of the celebration or the evening ends with it. For example, according to Czech tradition, the final chord of New Year's Eve should be a chocolate cake with champagne.
In Poland, some people drink champagne, but traditionally vodka is always present on the festive table. In Austria and Holland, they eat little on New Year's Eve, but they will not refuse hot aromatic mulled wine. The Dutch start the party with champagne and then move on to warmed wine served with signature fruit donuts.
Those Englishmen who celebrate the New Year prefer to drink brandy, while the Belgians prefer wine. In Thailand, on New Year's Eve, they do not drink alcohol and drink only non-alcoholic cocktails.
It doesn't matter what kind of drinks will be on your table: champagne, wine, brandy, cognac, martini, lemonade, juice. The main thing is that the holiday is fun and remembered by everyone for its relaxed atmosphere, fun and pleasant communication. And what to drink at the same time is up to you.
