Non-alcoholic beverages

[lazy_b]

LLB - Lemon, Lime, & Bitters - is supposedly popular as a "posh" soft drink in Australia and New Zealand.

Not sure what the original recipe is, but it's based on lemonade with a splash of lime cordial and a dash of Angostura bitters.

I make something similar by adding a few splashes of Bitters to a bottle of Lemon and Lime flavoured fizzy water. It's (practically) non-alcoholic, but isn't sickly sweet - so you can keep up with your beer-drinking mates (and if you pick the right flavoured water, it's almost calorie free )

[The GMan]

When I have phases of staying away from alcohol I usually drink alcohol free Cobra. Becks Blue is horrible!

I usually get 2 bottles and pour them into a pint glass and get a dash of lime in it.

I enjoy it, but its not exactly cheap, but I can't stand drinking some soft drinks, and if Cobra is not available I just have sparkling mineral water.

[J8 SVG]

Good cranberry juice with loaddssss of fresh lime squeezed into it. The cranberry and raspberry juices are good with this too

[Rick101]

JQ said:

I now dislike getting in rounds. It upsets me when a sober night at the pub costs me £20 for 6 glasses of soda water.

JQ said:

No thanks, I'm quite happy with what I do.

To be fair he his response was in keeping with your first statement.

[BlackVanDyke]

eggchaser1987 said:

blueST said:

LordGrover said:

Fentimans ginger beer.

Unfortunately I detest ginger in all it's forms, which is ironic given my hair colour.

Is it Fentimans that do an 'Orange Jigger' as well. Really nice, not to sweet either. I'm sure it's Fentimans that make it.

It is and the stuff is completely bloody fantastic - really complex interesting flavour, I could drink it every day of the week.

[SHutchinson]

LordGrover said:

SHutchinson said:

Tonic water, ice, lime. Close your eyes and pretend it's a G&T.

That's what I do.

Rubbish!

What you want is tonic water, ice, lime. Close your eyes and pretend it's a VAT.

That's what I don't do.

Oooh no, I don't like vodka. I wouldn't be able to drink it if I was pretending it was a VAT.

[VeeDubBigBird]

Heres a link for alcohol free lagers. I think there's a wider selection of alcohol-free beers than lagers, so if you don't mind beers might be worth looking into those as well.


http://www.alcoholfree.co.uk/lagers-c-2_65_67.html

[Martin_M]

Thread revival here but I was genuinely surprised when I found out the other night that Becks Blue non-alcoholic beer contains, according to the label, not more than 0.05% of alcohol. I wonder how many pregnant women drink this thinking it is 100% alcohol-free? I'm also curious as to how many you would need to drink before a breath test would read positive?

[LordGrover]

100 pints of that would be equivalent to 1 pint 5% beer.

[grumbledoak]

Martin_M said:

Thread revival here but I was genuinely surprised when I found out the other night that Becks Blue non-alcoholic beer contains, according to the label, not more than 0.05% of alcohol. I wonder how many pregnant women drink this thinking it is 100% alcohol-free? I'm also curious as to how many you would need to drink before a breath test would read positive?

You dug up a long dead thread for this bizarre bit of anti-alcohol scare-mongering for pregnant women? Low hanging fruit first, is it?

[condor]

I went 3 months alcohol free last year and drank bottles of Becks blue in the pub with my beer drinking pals. I thought it was OK.
At home I had Ribena or elderflower cordial with sparkling water and pretended to myself that they were red and white wine

[Cheese Mechanic]

Get your happy feet to here : http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sain...

Just bought a dozen to replace the past dozen I bought before. I will be seriously surprised if you don't like it. To me, its the best (although Bavaria is not bad) alcohol free (0.5%) beer I have had by a country mile.

I've sprung it on two people and both thought it was a "normal" good lager.

[Martin_M]

LordGrover said:

100 pints of that would be equivalent to 1 pint 5% beer.

Makes sense Lord -thanks.

Grumble - stop being a dick - my wife is pregnant which was my reason for bringing it up. You would probably have moaned about using the search facility had I not revived this one...

[grumbledoak]

Martin_M said:

Grumble - stop being a dick - my wife is pregnant which was my reason for bringing it up. You would probably have moaned about using the search facility had I not revived this one...

Best keep her off the white bread too. You can't be too careful.

[BlackVanDyke]

Martin_M said:

Thread revival here but I was genuinely surprised when I found out the other night that Becks Blue non-alcoholic beer contains, according to the label, not more than 0.05% of alcohol. I wonder how many pregnant women drink this thinking it is 100% alcohol-free? I'm also curious as to how many you would need to drink before a breath test would read positive?

There's no quantifiable risk from that volume of alcohol - you'd have to drink dozens in a session.

[Martin_M]

BlackVanDyke said:

Martin_M said:

Thread revival here but I was genuinely surprised when I found out the other night that Becks Blue non-alcoholic beer contains, according to the label, not more than 0.05% of alcohol. I wonder how many pregnant women drink this thinking it is 100% alcohol-free? I'm also curious as to how many you would need to drink before a breath test would read positive?

There's no quantifiable risk from that volume of alcohol - you'd have to drink dozens in a session.

Thank you kindly sir :-)

[arsenalmorris]

Mountain Dew

[davepoth]

BlackVanDyke said:

There's no quantifiable risk from that volume of alcohol - you'd have to drink dozens in a session.

I think you'd be more at risk of water poisoning than getting drunk. I once tried Tesco Value lager as an experiment. 1.2% alcohol, and tasted like plastic. Each can was roughly .5 of a unit, so to get drunk at any appreciable rate I would be needing to drink something like 2 litres an hour for at least two hours. That's not healthy.

[bint]

Timely bump, I've just discovered Brew Dog's Nanny State alcohol (0.5% I think) free beer.

Much better than most as it's more hoppy than the usual sweeter malty non alcoholic beers.

[6th Gear]

Perrier, fresh lime juice and ice.

I'm on the wagon too, missing my beers but determined to have a clean 3 months.