MADD has just come out with completely non alcoholic drinks. I'm trying the white wine tonight.

[applegrove]

Pretty good. Like mild white grape juice but with a complicated aftertaste. Got it at the drug store.

[cliffordu]

1. Kick just because there are no comments

Apparently no one here is interested in booze without booze in it.

[Duer 157099]

2. I think I'd be mad too

Oh, never mind

[HarveyDarkey]

3. What's the point, really?

Kinda like decaffeinated coffee.

[Major Nikon]

5. ...or kissing your sister

[harmonicon]

8. I don't get it, but it works for some people.

I know one guy who drinks it non-alcoholic beer regularly, just because he wants to feel like he's having a beer, even if he'll stay sober the entire time time. Most people I know who've tried that sort of thing either just give up the fake stuff or go back to drinking.

[sir pball]

14. The missing EtOH destroys the flavor.

Anything NA tastes like the Nutri-Matic's tea from Hitchhiker's Guide - almost but not quite entirely unlike what it's supposed to be.

Quite seriously, the lack of that 5-15% alcohol in the beer or wine significantly changes the flavor, which is in large part the reason I drink it in the first place (the buzz is nice, but if I'm chasing it, well that's why they invented Buffalo Trace). I can't feel like I'm having a beer if I'm drinking some vaguely bitter rotten-wheat flavored fizzy beverage that clearly ISN'T beer - if I can't have a REAL BEER I'll just drink an Arnold Palmer or Coke or something.

[harmonicon]

16. You'll get no argument from me.

I don't really consider beer to be "drinking." For that, there's bourbon. Beer is just a nice drink to me. I have no problem just having one or sticking with water or something if I'm driving. Other people can't do that, and if this stuff helps them, all the better.

[kalli007]

4. I enjoy NA beer

I'm 55 days into my quit, and yes I poo poo'ed NA beer before too, but it helps me. I have drastically changed my life and habits, however I still enjoy crawfish boils and stuff where I would usually drink. Drinking a NA beer allows me to "feel" like I am drinking without the endless list of bad things that would subsequently occur.

[white_wolf]

6. If I want to drink sour grape juice I'll just buy cheap grape juice.

MADD can keep their non-alcoholic wine. Seriously, what's the point of drinking wine, beer, whiskey, etc. without the alcohol?

[applegrove]

7. The ritual. The attention to the details of taste. I would not buy this every month but, once in a

while, it mixes it up.

[merrily]

9. Skoal!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

10. Personally I wouldn't want to support MADD

I think they're drunk with power, and hold too much sway over politicians as it is.

[orleans]

11. i like the taste of beer

but i don't have the interest or time to get buzzed--if i bought NA beer i'd drink it more often than i drink the reg. beer that has been living in the fridge for about about a year.

wine? ugh. and it has a "complicated" aftertaste? that sounds real scary.

[applegrove]

12. What I mean by complicated aftertaste is that the 'white wine' is lite enough that

it doesn't annihilate your taste buds like pure white grape juice would.

[sir pball]

15. Sounds like you'd be better off making it at home

Cut white grape juice with water, still or sparkling, and add a pinch of citric acid and a hint of salt to sharpen it a little. Probably cheaper and a whole lot tastier since it's not trying to be wine without the essence.

Also, I have nothing good to say about MADD these days and wouldn't touch anything associated with them with a 39 1/2-foot pole.

[sendero]

13. No thanks.....

.... rather than try to fool myself about it all I will simply drink when only when I don't have to drive.