Hello and welcome to craftbrewsobriety. I am Spacebaryaya and while that’s a silly name, it’s one I’ve been using over the years as I investigate my relationship with alcohol and learn to live while sober. (My phone just suggested “with alcohol” after I typed “relationship”. What does that tell you?) I started this blog longer ago than I could recall until I saw my first post was in 2018. However, I’ve been questioning my drinking since I first started in 2001.
Why are we here together? Well, this all started for me as I’ve been seeking to break the last thing that was holding me to drinking: craft beer. Not long after I started drinking, I turned to beer because it felt like an adventure being led by others. There were so many flavors to be found and such fun packaging, who wouldn’t love it? When I got into brewing my own, I initially found satisfaction in the creativity outlet as well. By exploring all the flavors nature had to offer from hops, yeast, water, and grain, and what humans could do through roasting and altering water chemistry, and what I could do in “branding” my brews and tweaking recipes, it felt like an endless exploration.
Sadly, this turned into a way for me to drink however much I wanted completely unsupervised. These drinking habits are something I’ll cover in future posts, but for now, that idea of craft brew is the lynchpin here. Through this blog, I’m looking to share stories about my path to sobriety; bring attention to tools that have helped me along this path; and hopefully find some things that resonate with you, the reader.
This is a kickoff of a target to post each week on Monday. Is there anything you’d like to know more about? Questions you’d like to ask anonymously (or publicly)? Do feel free to reach out in the comments. I look forward to sharing my journey and starting discussions with you about this oft-unspoken aspect of adult life.