WHEN IT COMES TO ENJOYING BRANDY, SIP WISELY BUT GO ‘NUTS’

Moving forward consistently with your fitness goals at times requires backing off boozy brunches or after-work alcohol indulgences. Julious Grant, founder of Omage brandy, is personally aware of the balancing act between staying fit and enjoying life every now and then.

Before becoming one of the leading wine and spirits experts in the United States, Grant was a guard at Bethune Cookman University in the late ‘80s, where he averaged nearly 12 points a game his senior season.

To this day, Grant, still physically active and watches his caloric intake, but Grant says that you can still enjoy the occasional highball — or straight up — without always having to go completely high and dry when it comes to alcohol.

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When it comes to brandy, he says that it’s best sipped after either a fine dinner or just kicking back and enjoying an evening chill. He adds that what also makes brandy sipping experience enjoyable, in addition to appreciating its fruity aromas, is finding an ideal food to pair it with. Oftentimes brandy serves as the perfect dessert complement, but sometimes Grant says you don’t have to go decadent, especially if you’re watching your calories.

“I have never been one to over-consume because I get great pleasure from tasting, sipping and finding ideal pairings between my food and beverage,” he says.

WHY DRINK BRANDY?

Brandy is a distilled spirit made from fermented fruit juice. It’s closely related but differs from Cognac due to the latter being made from grapes in the Cognac region of France.

There are a host of ways to drink brandy. One is drinking it “neat” — straight up at room temperature — which is one of the classier ways of indulging a fine brandy. Or you can mix it to make a brandy sour (lemon juice, simple syrup, and maraschino cherry) or a highball (ginger ale and lemon twist).