Well, non-alcoholics don’t seem to care much for them either…so who are they for in the long run???
I don’t drink. I’ve tasted some wines and beers and stuff, and I have come to the conclusion that beer should be poured back inside the horse. That’s why I wouldn’t drink any of the fake beers, either.
Not true. Minors are not allowed to purchase “non-alcoholic” beer, as I discovered once as a teenager in the grocery store with Mom. She had run out to the car for some coupons, leaving me in line with, among other things, a sixpack of O’Doules. I had to wait there until she got back, because I was not allowed to buy it.
Also, of course, there’s also another category of teetotallers, those who don’t drink for physiological reasons. I’m alcohol-intolerant, to the point that a tiny sip of wine is enough to make me nauseous. I don’t know if .5% beer would be enough to set me off. Nor am I eager to find out, since I don’t like being nauseous. So it’s an easy decision for me.
Hmmm. When I worked in a grocery store a couple of years ago, we could sell non-alcoholic beer or cider to anyone who wanted it, regardless of age.
I guess I’ll chime in as another Doper in recovery – 14 years sober in June. I wouldn’t drink very low alcohol beers in my early years of recovery, but they weren’t widely available then and I never was a beer drinker. I think I’ve had maybe 12 in the last six or seven years, and that was at least three or four years ago. It’s not a matter of triggers or anything like that, just that I’d rather have a Diet Coke when it gets right down to it.
I respect everyone’s viewpoints on this. I think you’ll find that there is a range of responses among recovering alcoholics on this.