Can you suggest non alcoholic drinks that taste like alcohol?

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Just that really. Trying for a baby and like a drink for the social element but won’t drink alcohol so wonder if there’s any alternatives you could recommend?

Please and thank you 😃

What does alcohol taste like?!

Co-op do a ready mixed non-alcoholic gin and tonic. It actually tastes pretty good - much better than the M&S one.

Becks alcohol free tastes the same as the normal one

Seedlip spice and tonic

Rock shandy is nice - half soda water, half lemonade, few splashes of angostura bitters (which are slightly alcoholic, but it's so little it doesn't count). Feels likes drinking something boozy but it isn't.

Lagers are your best bet. Cobra and Stella are good. Becks is ok, but only 1-2 as it gets a weird aftertaste. St Peter's Without is a good stout fake.

Don't touch the wine.

I hate drinking 'non-alcoholic' anything so mostly just drink tonic water, either as is or with lemon/lime. With the amount of gin in a bar G&T, its hard to tell the difference between that and plain tonic anyway!

Heineken 00 was decent not the same as the real thing though

Becks alcohol free tastes the same as the normal one

I can vouch for this 👍 exactly the same

Alcohol free ciders are also good. As is Bavaria alcohol free wheat beer. They do tend to taste too sweet to have more than one though

Mojito without the alcohol. I lived on this whilst pregnant. Tastes exactly the same

Adnams white wine (AF)
Adnams rose wine (AF)
Belle & Co fizz - white or Rosé (AF)
Bitburger Drive
Peroni (AF)
Seedlip
Natura AF Rosé wine

My experience is that AF red wine is crap.

Bundaberg lemon, lime and bitters. I only discovered it when I was in my third trimester and was annoyed I hadn't found it sooner. I still have it now if I don't fancy alcohol.

Stryyk - not gin is amazing!

Robinsons crushed mint and lime cordial with soda water and ice, like a non alcoholic mojito

I find AF beer really gassy.

I like tonic water by itself with ice and plenty of fresh lime and lemon.

You can do similar with any mixer or combination of mixers - i think the key is to make them not too sweet, so add citrus and/or bitters. You could also add a bit of vinegar, and some fresh herbs.

Seedlip etc get good reviews but not cheap.

Non alcoholic kopperberg tastes exactly the same as their alcoholic ones. I love the strawberry and lime ones so much I still drink them even though I'm no longer breast feeding lol

I’ve been a dry January penguin for years. Depends if you mean absolute 000% or very very low. For very very low the absolute dupe is decent tonic and one dash of angostura bitters. Bitters is alcoholic but at one dash in a full glass of tonic renders it next to 0:? % and makes the drink taste dry and grown up.

I've been known just to have a tonic water on its own when I don't want a drink but do want that 6 o'clock feeling. Grapefruit and tonic is nice too and Heineken and Becks lagers are good.

Do not venture near the alcohol free wine though. Shudder.

I like a vodka lime & lemonade in the summer so when I was pregnant I had it without the vodka. Just the right amount of sweet/tangy.

Becks Blue!

Kombucha

Something with ginger always feels like alcohol to me if it's strong enough.

I avoid pretend alcohol and go with ginger beer or an elderflower presse. A flavoured tonic - Fentimans Rhubarb or Valencian Orange are nice.