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as well as B vitamins and an acidic composition that some say can help your gut health.

For many, this drink has become a replacement for beer and other alcoholic beverages, partly due to its prevalence in drinking establishments.

“We have some breweries that go through three of these (kegs) in a week,” Gaudreault said.

People who choose not to drink should have options besides a soda, Gaudreault said.

“You want something that is a little more sophisticated,” he said.

Trubucha is located at 10047 Park Meadows Drive Unit A in Lone Tree.

Make it at home yourself e sugar and salt wall, which contains countless canisters of avored granules, is a good place to get ingredients to sweeten your mocktails or rim the glasses, according to Houser. e store has many types of teas, some of which can make for a good mocktail base.

For those looking to have an NA drink at home, e Spice and Tea Exchange in Idaho Springs has almost everything you need to get started on your very own mocktail creation.

Logan Houser, manager at e Spice and Tea Exchange in Idaho Springs, explained that the shop has all sorts of ingredients to make cocktails or mocktails at home.

“It all just depends on what you’re trying to achieve,” he said.

“We have like four or ve teas you can use for mocktails,” Houser said.

He said the fruity teas do really well for those late 1880s to help him politically, not to paint him. She ended up staying and moving into his camp at the Standing Rock Reservation with his family.

Guggisberg said that “the painting presumably was made while Caroline Weldon had brie y returned to Brooklyn in the latter part of 1889 and early 1890. e date on the painting is 1890.”

Weldon is believed to have sold the painting to the man whose heirs recently put it up for auction.

“As far as I know, no painting by Carolyn Weldon has ever sold at auction,” Guggisberg said. “While the story in the lm was greatly changed, even without the motion picture, I still think this would’ve been an amazing piece because of the story.”

Bailey said Weldon endured a lot of heat — even physical violence — for promoting Native rights in the late 1800s.

Bailey said he started the bids on March 18 at $20,000 and said the nal sales gure was reached in about two minutes.

“It didn’t have any bids on it to start with, advanced bids, pre-op option bids,” he said. “ ere were several people that just got on when the option started and it ran to where it ran. at’s one of those pieces that could have gone anywhere. “ e painting will soon be shipped to the new owner.

Bailey said the seller is granddaughter of William Lafayette Darling, a railroad engineer from St. Paul that was involved in the construction of the Northern Paci c Line at the time that went through the Dakotas on to Montana and Idaho. He is believed to have purchased the painting from Weldon. When he died in 1938, the painting went to his daughter and then to her daughter in 1990.

“We’ve been in touch with the buyer and it’s been hanging up here on the wall for several weeks now,” he said. “I’m looking at it right now.”

Bailey said the auction house does not release details about the buyer.

“I can say that they’re in the Northeast and I hope they loan or exhibit it,” he said. “It’s not something I can even fathom somebody just poking down a hallway and looking at once in a while. I just don’t see that happening. I think it’s going to show up again and I think it’s going to show up at a museum, perhaps by a private collector. e best I’ll say is, that is what I hope is the outcome.” drinks, but you can try out lots of combinations. e shop also o ers cocktail kits with sugars, teas and syrups to make drinks, which Houser said are popular for people to use for NA drinks. e Spice and Tea Exchange is located at 1634 Miner St. in Idaho Springs.

Sandra Hale Schulman, of Cherokee Nation descent, has been writing about Native issues since 1994.

“Really anything you buy here is multipurpose,” Houser said.

“You can change them out for club soda,” he said of champagne or other alcohol recommended in the recipes.

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