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Best AF alternatives

4 replies

Parkmama · 04/10/2023 14:37

Please can you recommend your favourite AF alternatives to:

Beer
Wine (red / white / rose / sparkling)
Gin
Rum

And any nice tonic mixers beyond straight tonic water

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PosiePerkinPootleFlump · 04/10/2023 14:45

Beer - beavertown lazer crush for ipa,
Lucky Saint or Nirvana helles if you prefer lager
Guinness zero is also good

For gin - adnams do a gin called smidgin. It is full strength gin but brewed with super strength botanicals so you only have a 2.5ml measure instead of 25ml. So tastes more convincing than any of the gin substitutes and no stronger than say a 0.3% beer

Not found anything convincing for rum or wine

Nonsuch shrubs cordials have a grown up taste if you want something that isn't mimicking alcohol. Or add a splash of apple cider vinegar to sparkling water

mindutopia · 05/10/2023 12:02

I think AF beer is very subjective. And it's more about what you like rather than what is intrinsically 'good'. I don't personally like anything too hoppy, but I like Leffe AF and I like Corona Cero. Brooklyn does a nice AF one as well.

I haven't personally found an AF wine that I like, probably because most of them are rubbish and also because wine was my drink of choice and I'd just rather not drink an AF version of it. But I actually quite like Nozeco, I know people are a bit snobby about it, but on a special occasion for a bubbly alternative, I think it's nice and light.

I also quite like Juke's (though they are expensive!) and I like kombucha. I'd prefer either of those to an AF wine.

Fluere does a smoked agave AF 'spirit' that is a lot like mezcal and with the Fever Tree mexican lime soda, it's really nice.

I also like the Martini non-alcoholic Floreale with tonic.

Just tonic with nice garnishes is good as well, but it has to be good tonic, Fever Tree or something similarly a bit more higher end than Schweppes, etc.

VoldemortsKitten · 06/10/2023 19:15

Corona zero, moretti zero all good! Brew dog punk AF also nice and some pubs near me now do Heineken zero on tap which is lovely

For celebrations I also love these AF Bellinis in a champagne cup or flute

I am so used to the taste of AF beer now that when I took a slug of a real one by mistake at a party it tasted horrible. And really sweet!

Best AF alternatives
mambojambodothetango · 06/10/2023 19:41

Alcohol free beers I like: Corona, FreeDamm, Brewdog, Bavaria. Alcohol free gin is nice.

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