Isn’t that basically stealing?
Not if she doesn’t charge them for liquor… Instead of a $8 Mai Tai, It’s a $3 pineapple/grenadine.
Freaks and Geeks, too.
I’ve got a relative who’s a psych professor, and I remember her mentioning to me that there’d been experiments done that showed that people who were drinking started acting “tipsy” before the alcohol could have reached their bloodstream…or even if they were drinking a non-alcoholic beverage they thought contained alcohol. I don’t have a cite, though.
A friend of mine once told me that she’d had an elaborate Sweet Sixteen party where “mocktails” were served. One of the other teen guests started laughing loudly, stumbling around, etc., and my friend’s dad pulled my friend aside and said “You have to tell that girl there’s no alcohol in these drinks before she makes a fool of herself.”
Try that shit at a Frat party and you’re likely to get your ass kicked.
See post #10. The experiment was done with vodka(weak taste) and tonic water(very strong taste). I don’t think you would get the same results with beer.
I drink beer for the taste (and the alcohol). I drink Clausthaler some. It’s not horrible but it is far too sweet.
I actually would like to see a micro brew beer that’s more like 3% than 5%+ that is the norm. English mild brown is good. Chinese brew some really light lagers between 1-2% alcohol - and some are a decent light pilsner style. Guinness’ regular version is more like 3 or 4%.
Beer drinkers would notice a non alcoholic beer in the first sip or two.
It seemed the most legitimate explanation for the naivete of his question. I did not literally think he was twelve.
Perhaps he is a member of a strict religious sect.
Hah! I’m literally LOLing here. Thanks for a good laugh!
No, I’m not twelve. 
Or a member of a strict religious sect!
Honestly, the last time I had an NA beer was an O’Douls in about 1993. It wasn’t very good, but I figured in the intervening 20 years things had gotten better. Apparently, as I’ve learned in this thread, some say they have, some not.
And I suppose the exact setting or details of my OP aren’t important. As suggested above by others, I could instead be having a party where I’m serving NA mixed drinks without telling anyone, etc. But beer seemed the easiest way to accomplish this. If I recall from parties in my college-age days, nobody particularly cared what was in the kegs - it wasn’t like we were very refined drinkers. I would wager that even if one of us had questioned it, if the host has just told us “oh, it’s a new import from Belgium” or something, we would have said “oh, okay” and kept drinking.
But it seems that other posters in this thread have stated that similar situations have been tested with various results.
Keep in mind, it’s not so much people “thinking” they’re drunk or feeling a buzz that I’m wondering about, it’s the extra “acting stupid” part of it - hence the setting of a college party - but I suppose you can change the setting and details as necessary in the “spirit” of my question.
Nah, she never put said drinks on their running tab.
“Beers and Weirs”. That was also one of the first things I thought of.
Yeah it’s a ridiculous statement. I personally can’t stand hard liquor taste and only find it palatable when mixed. But I drink beer and wine for the taste.
TV Tropes calls it “Main/Fake High”.
Yeah! They would notice your party sucks!
Seriously though. Some people will probably have a placebo reaction where they might feel a bit more relaxed and uninhibited because they think they are more relaxed and uninhibited. But I doubt people will be acting trashed simply because they won’t, in fact, be trashed.
Also scotch.