Alternatives to alcholic drinks

Summary

This is a list of alternative drinks which people on the TBOGUA favour if you're looking for something to replace wine/beer/spirits.

This article is owned by LindsD

Please feel free to add your favourites.
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LindsD - diet ginger beer (Tesco's is nice)
decaf coffee
peppermint tea
elderflower (fizzy and still)
virgin mojito (mint, soda, sugar, or also with lemonade)
pineapple and soda
I like the 0% beer but it's not for everyone. Bavaria Wheatbeer 0% is nice.
Badoit fizzy water. San Pellegrino is also nice.
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HappyG - I got good suggestion from the thread for a request for non-sweet treats:
:-) Virgin Mary - tomato juice, tabasco, Worcestershire sauce, sprig of celery, yum!
:-) sparkling water with lemon or lime juice - really refreshing
:-) Seedlip - "the world's first distilled non-alcoholic spirit". Very grown up. £25 for 70ml tho! :-O
:-) 0% beers - Becks Blue, Heineken 0%, Erdinger Alkofrei, Brewdog Nanny State, Budweiser Prohibition, Adnams Ghost Ship (a lovely ale flavour), Warsteiner zero, St Peter's Without (a proper "ale" taste)
:-) Nix n Kix Cucumber Mint with Cayenne Pepper Link (roll over me to see where I go)
:-) Belvoir Juniper and Tonic ( Link (roll over me to see where I go) )
From the thread winter 2019 warm, winter, festive
Robinson's Apple and Cinnamon
Rochester Mulled Berry Punch from Holland and Barrett Link (roll over me to see where I go)
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Geordiegirl (desperately looking for inspiration)
Tonic water
Ginger beer
Shloer (spelling may be off!)
Bees Knees - n/a Prosecco
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Sazzahazza
Fizzy/sparkling water with lemon and lime
Tommy juice with tobasco sauce, Worcestershire sauce (horseradish sauce for spice) and celery stick= Virgin Mary- thanks HappyG for that one ;o)
Lime & soda
Diet Ginger beer
Teas (earl grey, liquorice, green, peppermint, Green tea with Cherry Bakewell, Yorkshire Gold)
Filter coffee is my new thing, Belgium chocolate/almond flavour and I have one at night as a treat
Schloer- any flavour
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gojojo
Purdey's Elixir vitae
Homemade root ginger shots (juice 1 apple + a couple of inches of root ginger = wow)
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Iron_Mum
tonic water with ice and lemon/lime
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Duchess
Soda water, lime and a splash of black currant cordial
Ginger beer
Elderflower cordial
Iced tea - M&S have some gorgeous ones this summer
Tonic water and mint
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iaincr
- Sainsbury now do a low alcohol sparkly wine, that tastes dry, fizzy and fantastic - Sainsbury's aromatised Low Alcohol Chardonnay Sparkling Wine, Taste the Difference.
- In pubs, mixing coke zero and ginger beer in a pint glass.
- Blackcurrant and soda water.
- Brewdog Raspberry Sour .5% Beer. Really refreshing and different from the becks blues of this world!
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Derby Tup (secretarial services by HappyG :-) G)
Brewdog Raspberry Blitz
Finally found some (in my in-laws local Tesco). It’s like fizzy very dilute herbal tea. Not a lot of smell or flavour. Not sweet (or sour). ‘Adult pop’ might be the best way to describe it but sadly all a little bit underwhelming. I think I had it too cold. As the glass warmed up the flavour started coming out. A definite option for a non-sugary cold drink :-)
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Wombling Plodder
* Fevertree Clementine and Cinnamon Tonic
* Fevertree Elderflower Tonic
* London Essence Bitter Orange and Elderflower Tonic
* Tesco Raspberry and Rose Lemonade
* Tesco Fizzio (Berry Fizz)
* Aldi Cucumber and Mint Tonic
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Rosehip
* Kombucha - the "Remedy" ones in a can are nice, if pricy
* Rosehip and hibiscus "tea" - apparently full of anti oxidants etc.
* Decaf Empress Grey tea from M&S
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Weean
* Chaider - like this
Link (roll over me to see where I go)
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Grast_girl
Dry drinker Link (roll over me to see where I go)
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Sigh
Link to Lyre's Non-Alcoholic Spirits. Not tried any yet. Link (roll over me to see where I go)
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Monki
- Not news to most of you but the low / no alcohol versions of beers have improved taste-wise by orders of magnitude recently. My current favourite NA/LA lager is *Lucky Saint*, which can even be found on tap in some places (as can *Free Damm*, from the brewery behind Estella Damm). And *Guinness 0.0* is almost indistinguishable from the alcoholic version. If you miss Prosecco then *Noughty* from Thompson & Scott is pretty good, albeit expensive.
- On the more exotic alt-drink market I particularly enjoy the ones from Three Spirit. I find *Nightcap* near miraculous in its ability to promote both sleep and some weird dreams; and their two other drinks make for more 'interesting' cocktails than a squash or tonic mix alone. These do end up about £2 a shot/drink though.
- On the substitute spirits front - I personally didn't enjoy the various ones I've tried from Lyre's. Both Gordons and Tanqueray now do a 0% gin which (for me) has the same problem as Seedlip in that you might as well just pay for fancier tonic water.

Recent Updates User Comments
26 Feb monki Added some more 'new to market' examples
Apr 2022 Sigh Added a link to Lyre's Non-Alcoholic Spirits
Jan 2022 Grast_girl Added a link to dry drinker
Aug 2021 LindsD Added Chaider
Feb 2021 Rosehip
Feb 2020 geordiegirl
Dec 2019 HappyG(rrr)
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