Cheap & Tasty Non-alcoholic options?

Geordie_Girl

I'm temporarily joining the ranks of the teetotal and I'm finding it difficult to find something to drink when I'm out at a pub that isn't a) booooring, b) expensive, or c) both.

I don't want to drink coke or anything else containing loads of caffeine.

So far I've stuck with orange juice, or an apple juice spritzer (apple juice and sparkling mineral water)

I'm sure I'm not the ONLY person in the whole of Ireland that doesn't drink, so can anyone suggest anything else I can try?

I never realised before (never cared maybe LOL), how little selection there is in pubs, for people who don't drink.:(

Thanks in advance.

(This might belong more in the Beer/Wine/Spirits section, but as it's not actually about alcohol I didn't think so. If a mod wants to move it, feel free)

Smoggy

My girlfriend was driving on a night out and she said that she had a few bottles of a non alcholic beer and said it was very drinkable (will find the name), there is also in some places nonalcholic cocktails which I believe are very nice (and shouldnt be too expensive).

The Sweeper

Non-alcoholic Becks is useful for getting people off your back if you're drinking in an Irish pub and are coming under pressure to drink - nobody tends to peer closely enough at the label to see the red 'no alcohol' writing.

Other options:
Soda water and lime.
Cranberry and soda.
Mud (coca cola and orange juice mixed).
Virgin Mary (a bloody mary without the vodka, so a tomato juice with worcester, tabasco, pepper n salt).
Plain tomato juice.
Pineapple juice and soda.
Any range of diet soft drinks.

Tree

Pineapple and rasa is my usual when im drivin, or a pint of tanora, or cidona.

coconut syrup and pineapple juice is a nice alternative to pineapple and malibu.

when you go some place that normally serves cocktails you can get non-alco ones, or use the syrups and juices to make something similar to your fav short and mixr

BendiBus

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

...if you're drinking in an Irish pub and are coming under pressure to drink

Do people still do that to non-drinkers? How backward!

Moonbeam

There is a non alcoholic erdinger too

rubadub

Moonbeam wrote:

There is a non alcoholic erdinger too

Lovely stuff, bought it by mistake once, had to guard the label with my life in case anybody saw it, would've faced a night of ridicule!

It is disgraceful the selection of all drinks in pubs, I wouldnt mind the crazy prices if what I was getting was decent. All the juices are substandard crap, no freshly squeezed or even tetra packed pressed (not from concentrate) juices in any pubs I have seen.

Geordie_Girl

Thanks Guys

Tree

Some cocktail bars will make you a fresh fruit smoothie if you play your cards right

The Sweeper

I think cocktail bars are the least of your worries when you're having a teetotal night in Ireland. Since splash guns still haven't arrived en masse you seem to end up spending more on a soft drink than on beer...

Blub2k4

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

I think cocktail bars are the least of your worries when you're having a teetotal night in Ireland. Since splash guns still haven't arrived en masse you seem to end up spending more on a soft drink than on beer...

Yep that's the truth. There is never pressure on the OP to drink when we go out from anyone, we wouldn't go out drinking with that type of person to be honest (she's my fiancee). The main problem is that all the drinks are ridiculously priced, I shudder to think what a cocktail bar would charge for a smoothie, even if they could be persuaded to make it.

Celtic67

There is a non alcoholic erdinger too
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Had this myself it is very nice in a pint glass with ice and nobody will bother about drinking.
The only place I've seen it though is the Bank Bar on Dame Street.