De-alcoholised wine and champagne

[Plug]

Hello all. I remember posting on here in the early days that I was tempted
to try alcohol-free beer and nearly everyone jumped down my throat and said
don't.

So I didn't until about a year ago. I eat out a lot and I get really sick
of lemonade and coke. I even got sick of lime soda that had become my
poison. I never drank beer when I used to drink (if you know what I mean)
so drinking alcohol-free beer has been fine. I just have one with my meal
when I go out and maybe two a week at home.

My sister discovered a source of alcohol-free champagne and red wine. Now
the champagne I don't have a problem with as I was never very keen. I tried
some and it was nice. We are going to have a bottle on Christmas day.

The red wine had me really scared. That was my downfall. I just looked at
the three bottles for about a week. Then I got the corkscrew - had to hunt
for it, rusting in the back of the drawer - and had one sip. What a relief!
It tasted like dry blackcurrant juice, not like the wine I remember. I took
one with me last week when we went out for dinner with friends and it was
nice to be able to drink my "wine" like everyone else. But I didn't even
finish one bottle. I am very pleased to have found something that is not
sweet that I can enjoy with my food.

Has anyone else had experience of alcohol-free wine or beer?

Deb

[Another Cultist Subliminal Message from AA: Boo]

Bullshit alert ?
Your lying to yourself like your "everyone else", and you know it .. or
else you wouldn't be asking for confirmation from a bunch of strangers
!

Did you pass the first alcoholic question when you quit *last time* :

My life has become unmanageable because of alcohol ?

If so, IMO, your still trying to do some of it your way, and the
temptation is still spinning in your foggy head that there may be a
possibility of being a normal "drinker" again because you only
drank half of a bottle of terrible tasting RED SHIT, so next time can
maybe drink a half a bottle of real red wine . and you know your drink
the whole bottle, plus the other two, once you start.

Where you live at only has lime ade and coke ? in the entire city ?

What do you think your friends *really* think when see you with that
tasteless road kill shit at dinner? Poor Deb has a drinking problem so
she brings a $10 bottle of bland grape juice ?

You asked, I replied.

Happy ThanksGiven.

Best of luck.

[Pete]

"Plug" <gluggaglug@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:I8Ngf.2984$7p5.986@newsfe4-win.ntli.net:

>
> Has anyone else had experience of alcohol-free wine or beer?
>
> Deb
>

FWIW, I really enjoy Marke Clausthaler NA beer. I think it tastes as good
as Heineken w/o the complications. Also St. Pauli NA, Hakke Beck, and
Buckler (but not so much). I guess at .5% alcohol content it's not really
"free". But even though it tastes great, it doesn't taste like "more", if
you know what I mean. Kind of pricey at a $1+ a bottle, but I don't drink
it daily either (or 12 at a crack like I used to). With a special meal or
at a party, it would be my choice. We are talking very occasional use
here. It's certainly different drinking for the taste rather than the
effect. Maybe it's not right for everyone, but it works for me. Other
than this i've been dry for 9-something years. Flamesuit on.