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Guinness 0% is the only alchohol free thing that I've found to actually taste like it's original counterpart. Most places seem to have it these days.
Avoiding sugar is going to be difficult as it's the default for non alcoholic drinks. As others have said lime (or other mixer) and soda is probably the best bet.
To add insult to injury I'm finding that a lot of the non alcoholic options tend to be priced higher too.
Non-alcoholic gin and tonic can be pretty good, but is often a rip-off.
Guiness 0% or the Brewdog AFs are pretty good. My favourite was Nanny State, but it's hard to find.
They only sell Heineken, so I'm out of luck for other 0 beers. I'm not sure about the 0 spirits though, but I think it's also a no. Thanks for the recommendation.
Also as a separate thing, I won't buy Brewdog. I know this makes me seem really difficult with my list of things I won't drink:
Why not Brewdog if I may ask?
Not OP, but two big issues for me having actually been a fan of them and an 'Equity Punk' (just one share) back in 2020:
CEO accused of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power.
Despite huge popularity and their drinks taking over every supermarket, somehow managed to fall into administration leaving suppliers and original investors out of pocket.
I think the takeover deal stinks - the worst kind of capitalism - leave all the small guys short changed and hand a massive multinational brand to another company with no obligations to make it right.
They also did job interviews for roles at the company, asked the applicants to come up with marketing plans, design concepts etc., then ghosted the applicants and used their ideas.
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/brewdog-accused-stealing-marketing-ideas-16289137
If it's a place that serves tea and coffee, there's a pretty good chance they'll do decaf or green tea.
I don't recommend drinking three pints of it, though.
If you're a regular, you might be able to persuade them to try a few other 0% beer options, like Guinness 0% or "Nowt Peculiar" etc
Otherwise, yeah, it's water or fizzy water, optionally with some juice or cordial in it.
Guinness 0% is truly top tier, its about the only one of them (out of the sparse few I've had) that tastes as good as the 'full fat' version