Best alternative non alco drink?

snollup

Been off the the booze for a couple of years now and still struggle to find nice non alco drinks. Anyone found any nice (and simple) alt na tipples???

My flavor of the month is ginger ale with a full lime squeezed into it. Sounds a bit dodge maybe but worth a try!

Ta.:rolleyes:

Thrill

Milk on the rocks. Or straight if you can handle it.

My alternative is a glass of coke if I plan on not drinking alcohol when I'm out.

Creamy Goodness

ginger ale is the best drink know to man tbh. never tried it with lime.

Cremo

Cremo wrote: »

ginger ale is the best drink know to man tbh. never tried it with lime.

The day they stop serving Canada Dry was the worst day of my life.

http://www.andrewcusack.com/gingerale1.jpg


Drinking anything non alcoholic in the same quantity as the bingers is not a pleasant expierence.

Nevyn

Erdinger non alcholic.

Steve

If i'm driving, I drink rock shandys but get sick of them fairly quick. There's also so much coke (a cola) you can take before it becomes a sugar overload and makes it ever more unbearable to listen to and humour your drunk mates.

IMO the bigger issue here is the fact that a pint of beer is still cheaper than a pint of coke/fanta/whatever.

What would it cost to fill a pint glass with those little bottles of ginger ale?

/shudders

ferdi

Moonbaby wrote: »

The day they stop serving Canada Dry was the worst day of my life.

http://www.andrewcusack.com/gingerale1.jpg


Drinking anything non alcoholic in the same quantity as the bingers is not a pleasant expierence.

amen, i loved that stuff.

JC 2K3

Poppyseed tea

Mossy Monk

Ginger Beer > Ginger Ale.

snollup

Thaedydal wrote: »

Erdinger non alcholic.

Far too tempting!!!
Theres far too much sugar in coke n all of those. in years to come therell be a shortage of insulin!!
I didnt realise ginger ale had such a cult following. lemonade can be good too but in fairly small doses.
Bobo's beside whelans , aswel as doing top food also do a really nice milkshake. oh, god i should get out (or stay in )more:eek:

SV

Lucozade!
can't beat it!

andrew

TK Red Lemonade. Nothing, nothing could ever beat it.

Holsten

If I'm not on the drink it's blackcurrent and water.

Tastes nice and is cheap as chips, free in some places.

Nevyn

Soda water and lime.

scruff321

i wasnt drinking tonite and had to watch my mates downing cold frosty one after cold frosty one and i can tell ya one thing nothing i drank soothed my pain!:(

FunkZ

Budweiser. Ohhhh he said it!

OpenYourEyes

Rock Shandy was always my drink of choice before i turned to the dark side! you get a full pint , so it lasts a while- hated standn there without a drink in my hand!

you do kinda get sick of it tho, and it costs as much as any pint too

dotsman

It's got to be tanora. It's so good, us Corkmen refuse to share it with the rest of you (although I have seen it occasionally the Tesco in the Merrion centre).

Dinkie

Tomato juice with a squeeze of lemon. I love it

CantGetNoSleep

dotsman wrote: »

It's got to be tanora. It's so good, us Corkmen refuse to share it with the rest of you (although I have seen it occasionally the Tesco in the Merrion centre).

F*ck sake you can get Tanora everywhere

You'd want to get over yerselves, bleedin langers

ClioV6

ClioV6 wrote: »

Lucozade!
can't beat it!

QFT:Only soft drink I take.

Jay P

Considering fizzy drinks make me sick, and I don't like tea, it has to be water. Mmmmmmmm

Dave!

Always lucozade....

ferdi

Deleted User wrote: »

QFT:Only soft drink I take.

where do you take it?

snollup

Deleted User wrote: »

QFT:Only soft drink I take.

QDT???

Terry

Moved from AH to the no homers non-drinkers club.

NonDrinkersClub

I used to be a big fan of Coca-Cola...but I had to give it up as part of a new diet lifestyle thing. I'd say in a pub situation, I'd just drink water nowdays. It's a lot easier on the teeth!

There's a lovely tea I found called 'Roobusch Tea'. It's organic & caffiene free and it actually tastes nice (as opposed to other herbal type teas which smell great but taste like old flower-water). And you can put milk in it! It looks just like regular tea, and the taste is quite similar. You can get a freshly brewed pot in 'The Joy Of Chai' in Templebar, or if you prefer, you can buy a box in almost any health food shop.

Whatever you do, don't go for diet drinks! I've been reading up on this and it's quite scary stuff. If you're interested in reading more, please check out my thread http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055274796

cue

Water (adam's ale), coffee, tea. Hate soft drinks.

Ruu_Old

Rock Shandy, Lucozade or a good cuppa.

dercun

Tonic Water, Sparkling Water, Lucozade for me.

de5p0i1er

ClioV6 wrote: »

Lucozade!
can't beat it!

Same here plus you get a good amount in a bottle for 2.50 not like other soft drinks.

Fabio

Rasa (raspberry and water) or else blackcurrent and water. Seeing as they are both free in most places in Cork, to prevent me from feeling too cheap I have the odd glass of Coke or Club Lemon in between!

witnessmenow

J2o is lovelly

Try it anyone who hasnt

Edit: I havent seen it many places though. It was in athlone i got it, ground fllor of the biggest pub (Dont want to mention names as i worked there and i guess it would be advertising/shilling!)

brokensoul

Erdinger non alcoholic is nice.

I hate becks n/a i have to say

Apart from that soda water and lime or diet coke.

narommy

brokensoul wrote: »

Erdinger non alcoholic is nice.

I hate becks n/a i have to say

Apart from that soda water and lime or diet coke.

+1

The difference between the alco and n/a version is so strange. N/a stinks & doesn't taste nice. I wonder how they remove alcohol.

unreggd

witnessmenow wrote: »

J2o is lovelly

+1

drank loads in London!

Although we thought it said Joe so we call it "joe-juice"

Ponster

Rasa used to be free when I was in collage (Carlow RTC 1992) but when I dropped back to Carlow in 1998 it had gone up to 50p and when I called in last month 2 barlads had never heard of it.

Glad to see that it's still free for some...

Bob the Seducer

Club Energize, has become almost a vice for me.

A warning however, if you're on a long night out and you get to Energize number 5 or so you will become horribly amped on caffeine and your now drunken friends will annoy you much more than ever before, that and you won't sleep until about 9 the next morning!
Still it tastes better than Lucozade as far as I'm concerned.

Dr_Teeth

Most pubs have cranberry juice, so that's what I have.. I don't really like fizzy drinks or caffeine when I'm out or I'll never get to sleep. J2O is nice too, I haven't seen it in Ireland though.

redcrew

get a packet of skittles and lucozade sport into you before you head out....dance the night away...lucozade from then on...happy happy fun times

i used to do that...think i'll start again

Stoner

fizzy water for me, i get sick of everything else after one or two of em.