If you’re not gonna get drunk, what’s the point of imitating alcoholic drinks? Just drink a soda at that point, it’s tastier.
Some people, myself included, like the taste and ritual of drinking beer, but don’t want to get drunk.
It’s like vegan meat substitutes.
Sure there are awesome vegan dishes and the substitutes taste worse than the real deal but it’s not wrong to want to interact with the culture you live in in a normalish manner.
I’ll have a af beer with my vegan hotdog and enjoy myself even though they are just substitutes.
That’s completely fair honestly
It’s not tastier.
Because different people have different tastes?
Bread flavored soda. I don’t get it either but zero beer is one of my best sellers.
What floored me was Zero Gin…they were offering tastings at the restaurant supply store and I was like: ‘no, please, paint thinner at 10am isn’t my thing’
I will add, however, we have a friend who drinks a lot of beer and he discovered that when he adds a few in between his regular beers he can be just fine (like, out of 12 bottles he has 3 or 4 zeros).
Whatever helps cut it down we’re all for it.
I’ve tried a couple of non-alcoholic gins. The best was “not terrible”. I can understand a non-alcoholic beer or cider, but gin does not work.
Aye, I agree with the spirits thing. Most of the point of the spirits is the taste/burn of the ethanol.
I like the odd margarita and espresso martini (basic, yes I know) and if they didn’t have the strong taste of the spirits it would be pointless.
Micheladas can work with non alcoholic beers though.
I like drinking beer, not just to get drunk but often as a simple past time. I regularly drink alcohol free beer when I don’t want to consume any alcohol for any number of reasons and these days there a lot of them that are really good and I would prefer to drink that over a soda. I don’t really have much love for alcohol free spirits however if you like the taste and process of making cocktails then it’s probably also a good thing to be able to do that without getting drunk.
