Dry January doesn’t have to mean opting out. Sometimes, it just means opting in differently.

For the first time ever, the city is hosting a Dry January Bar Crawl on Saturday, January 17th and Sunday, January 18th, turning an otherwise sleepy winter weekend into a choose-your-own, sober-ish adventure across some of the city’s best bars, breweries, and restaurants.

You said you were doing Dry January. What you didn’t say was that you were staying home every weekend or suddenly becoming the kind of person who drinks tea at 8 PM and calls it a night.

This blog is for the people who are mostly committed. The ones who want to cut back without cutting off their social life. The ones who still want to go out, hear music and feel like the night went somewhere, even if they wake up the next morning without a headache.