Interesting thread. My mum was and is very tight-arsed about alcohol, while my dad is a wine with meals/guinness afterwards drinker. He gave us sips of guiness when we were tiny, much to my mother's disgust, and we all hated it.
I actually love the taste of alcohol, esp. a nice, aromatic gin and tonic, rather than the way it makes me feel. But, I only ever drink socially and since a year's abstinence having/bfing dd, rarely drink at all as I'm completely sozzled after 2 glasses and I don't like having hangovers.
My sister went down the alcohol is evil path til she was 17, but now drinks far more than I do. Brother is a real ale snob.
DD at 2.2 has no interest in 'mummy's juice' on the rare occasion I do have a drink when I'm out with her (usually driving!). I would not give her a taste of anything alcopoppy, as someone has already said, they taste too nice, I don't want her thinking they're okay to have!
My eldest niece, at 12, was caught with a bottle of bacardi breezer at dd's christening 2 years ago, I went mental at her, her mum (SIL) stepped in to say she'd said it was okay for her to have it as 'it's not like it tastes like alcohol, is it?' [massive WTF?!? smiley] She then said she'd rather she drank in front of her when it was 'controllable' than she went off drinking with her mates. Erm... surely it will just let her think it's okay to go and get shitfaced on bacardi breezers with her mates, no??
Actually, the only reaction I have really had against my mum's forbidding attitude towards drink is to keep an extensive cocktail cabinet - I clearly remember her watching Crossroads years ago and someone offered a visitor a drink from their small selection of spirits bottles on the sideboard - in a very disapproving manner she proclaimed 'Well! I don't know anyone who keeps drink in the house like that!'
And in deliberate reaction to that, soon as I got my own place I went out and bought a bottle of every drink under the sun - so now she can't say that... how petty am I?