What do teetotal people drink on a night out at the pub

[TheThunderRolls]

This probably sounds silly but we are going out for DH birthday for drinks tonight.

I have decided to go teetotal so I don't really know what to drink in the pub that will be a long drink?

What does everyone drink who doesn't have alcohol?

Are there only fizzy drinks available?

He's having lager and I normally have wine so a new experience for me!

Alcohol free drinks

Guiness zero

I drink tap water with ice. I don't like fizzy drinks or J2Os (full of sugar and make my teeth feel funny) so water it is. Tap water is basically all i drink at home too so its fine.

Lime and soda or Fevertree tonic water on its own.

Ditto. I’m turning into my mother….

Ice cold coke and crisps

Killer combo. Flavour crisps?

Coke or non alcoholic gin

How about a Shirley Temple @TheThunderRolls

(a classic; ginger ale with a splash of sweet grenadine syrup, with a maraschino cherry garnish)

Dh and I are both teetotal. Depending on how we feel we drink Guinness 0.0. Peroni 0.0 or Heineken 0.0.

If they sell it non-alcoholic Kopparberg lime and strawberry cider. Or sometimes coke or an appletiser. The zero or low alcohol choices have got really good over the last 5 years or so.

Coffee if they have it, fruit juice and lemonade if they don't.

whereas my mother is far more likely to have an alcoholic drink in her hand than a cuppa, and can’t abide tea.

Lime and soda
Diet coke
fruit juice

Lemon lime and bitters.

Peroni AF lager for me! Even better with a nice dash of lime 1970s style!

Alcohol free beer usually. I would choose diet bitter lemon and soda if they had it.... but hardly anywhere does!

Ooh me! I'm not teetotal but I rarely drink and I usually work my way through all the non alcohol cocktails especially if there's lots of fresh fruit available. Some have 0% alcohol in them although I usually prefer them plain.

Depends on my mood, sometimes an alcohol free shandy, a coke, a coffee or a soda water and lime, occasionally a cranberry and lemonade or a mocktail

Soda and lime or alcohol free lagers

Same. There are so many alcohol free versions of brand name lagers and beers and even Guinness now that are really very good. I’d rather them than overly sweet mocktails. I’m not a massive fan of the 0% spirits or G&Ts but each to their own! I’ll sometimes just have sparkling water if it’s this warm.

I think many teetotals like to get mocktail or an AF version of beer, cider or spirit for one or two drinks and the rest they just sip water or soda water.

I guess otherwise it's costing the same as it would if you drank booze.

I've been drinking tea in bars since I was not quite 18. I've even propped up the bar in goth clubs with an earl grey and a biscuit.

I usually have fresh orange and lemonade if I'm not drinking alcohol when I'm out. At home I stick to 'posher flavoured' diluting juice mainly.

Pubs have loads of alcohol free stuff now, gin, wine, beer etc. What do you drink at home?

What about Eisberg non alcoholic wine, very pleasant ice cold. I was introduced to it while on antibiotics, and had drunk it since.

I often ask for tea which surprises and sometimes annoys barkeepers. But I love tea and it’s an easy and cheap drink to make so it’s no skin off their nose. (Some pubs can’t do it because they don’t have kettles/kitchens).