Tea. Just make tea. You’ve effectively ruled out almost everything else.

Apple cider (especially with a cinnamon donut).

Eggnog.

I always make hot lemon-and-honey “tea” when it’s fuck-off cold out. It’s what my mom did for sore throats (which I did get, and still got, frequently in the winter) so it’s super comforting.

Just squeeze about 1/2 of a lemon into a mug of hot water, then drizzle in honey to taste. Best done with a highly flavored local clover honey imo. And you can use a teaspoon or two of the storebought squeeze bottle lemon concentrate if its all you have.

Try a squeeze of lemon, half an orange, a little honey, a half-pinch of salt (it’s really that little salt, it is just the tiniest bit to bring out the flavour) and about 2 drops of lysergic acid diethylamide. You’ll thank me later.

Ginger and honey drink. You can buy it prepackaged from Asian grocers (and probably amazon). Gold Kili is the brand I like.

🇭🇺 Sült tea / 🇨🇿 Pečený čaj

The name means “baked tea” and it is just as popular on Christmas markets in the Visegrád countries as Glühwein (mulled wine) is in Germany. It probably isn’t sold where you live but you can make it at home.

• Sterilize some jam jars.
• Take all sorts of warm wintery fruit (apples, pears, oranges, plums, raisins, grapes, strawberries, cherries, mandarines, blackberries, blueberries, currant, raspberries, figs, anise, lemons) and chop it into small pieces, like 8x8x8 mm at most. Remains from juicers are OK. Add sugar (300 g/fruit kg) and cinnamon (1 tsp/fruit kg), perhaps some spices (such as clove).
• Preheat your oven to 180-220 °C.
• Bake in an open roasting pan for 30 minutes. Stir every 5-10 minutes.
• (Optional) add 100 ml/fruit kg rum and mix it in while the fruit is still hot.
• Fill the jars, wipe their edges, screw on the lids and leave them to cool upside down.

To make the tea, put 1-2 tablespoons of the mix into a mug with 250 ml of hot water. Once you’ve drunk the fruity tea, use a teaspoon to eat the fruit.

You may argue that it is actually food, and point taken. However, for some reason this is the thing I think of when someone says “beverage”.

Mulled wine. You can go as heavy or as light on the spices you like. I’m a fan of mulled mead. Great cold weather drink.

Just caught N / A. In that case, hot apple cider or a big mug of Earl Grey. Can’t go wrong with black tea.

I’m fond of wassail. It’s usually made with cinnamon, but you could exclude it and it should turn out alright.

You Guys, I settled on Ginger Lemon tea and Chunky™️ Chicken Noodle 😁. Also a king-sized glass of wine…

Lots to try throughout rest of season tho!

I’ve grown fond of these little chats we have :)

Earl Grey, or fresh mint tea.

Glögi

Simple hot chocolate without any spices is my favourite hot cozy drink

Inka Polish grain beverage. Hard to find in US stores but can be ordered. Add the powder to fully boiling water then add what you like. My preference is honey and soy milk to end up like a love child of coffee and hot chocolate.

Yorkshire Gold, a drop of milk 1 sugar, and a hobnob.

A like a mug of broth. But there is a TON of sodium so that’s a once in a blue moon drink.