""fancy" pairings, fluid-wise, for special occasions/meals?"
How about trying out some new non alcoholic recipes and sharing them with us? There are hundreds of non alcoholic drinks you can have & thousands more you can come up with. That should keep you quite busy for a while ;-)
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