Originally Posted by
Joe Nerv 
Another one of these threads.
Not sure if this one came before or after the last one I responded to.
You'd have to drink as much as you would to get high on 7up. Odoulls has .4% alcohol, 7up has .3% to .5%. So you might actually get drunk quicker drinking 7up. You'd have to drink about 30 bottles in less than an hour though, just to catch a little buzz. Not worth it IMO. I checked all my info before posting that. It can all be easily googled. The only reason non alcoholic beers put the alcohol content on their labels, and other beverages don't is because the law requires it due to the fact that they're labeling it non alcoholic.
I drink non alcoholic beers from time to time and have no problem with it. I've had six packs sit in my refridgerator for months. Never had a desire to have more than 1, or 2 tops (which I'm not even sure ever happened). They don't speak to me any more than a ginger ale would.
That's not the case for everyone though. I've heard of many people going out after drinking them. If I were doing it to replace my drinking habit I'd steer way clear. If I ever had a desire to drink more than one, or it messed with my head in any way whatsoever, I'd steer clear. I do it because I like the taste once in a while, and it doesn't kick up any desires at all.
Bottom line is some peole have no problem with it, some people have huge problems with it. Is it worth the gamble?
Hi Joe,
AGAIN!
It is not the alcohol content it is the drinking ritual that triggers the desire to drink more O' Doul's until you are drinking them like regular beer and then may move on to the reaL thing.
I had been doing the same thing you are doing, Joe, having a 6 pack in the fridge and having one once in a while . It is pretty close to beer and after all "non-alcoholic". Then out of the blue I started having one with my meals. then I was having one with my husband before meals and wanted another one with my meals. My husband asked me" should you be drinking that", and I said of course it is Non-alcoholic.
When I found myself "sneaking" an extra beer either before or after dinner. Thank God the BELL went off and I asked myself why the need to hide this from my husband-----It was the same feeling I got when drinking alcohol.
Obviously it was not the alcohol content and I was not getting "the buzz", but it mentally put me in a place that satisfied the alcoholic in me---the pouring, the beer glass, the foam, that trickle of water down the side of the glass from condensation, and the taste was very close to beer.
Beer was not even my drink of choice it was Scotch, non the less I found myself feeling guilty about sneaking more "non-alcoholic beer". I felt I was setting myself up for the need to have a real drink.
Ya know first you have a NA beer once in a while, then one a night , than 2, than 6, than 10, then WHAT--Maybe the real thing??
I thank God I was able to quit drinking and never relapse in 25 years--I saw something dangewrous in this "ritual" and for ME I stopped it.....and ya know what I missed it, I wanted it, I was jealous when my husband drank the rest I had left. I think that's a BIG RED FLAG!!
If it can happen to me after 25 years of sobriety -----I think it is a dngerous thing for alcoholics.
Furthermore I think the Beer Companies of these so called Non-alcoholic drinks know exactly what these beers are doing . They are advertised so that the ALCOHOLIC believes they are safe by the content of alcohol in each beer, they will replace their addiction with it, and the Ritual or Kindeling effect gets them back to buying the real thing!!!!
This is only MY experience but I wanted to WARN others that if it can happen to someone sober for as many years as me----well do not take the chance.
Non-alcoholic beverages are for Non-alcoholics! Look it up on the web this is what it states--but these beers should have a warning label, and I have already looked into litigation to make this happen.
Call me a "Drama Queen" but to have almost relapsed because of the innocence of the packaging as "ok" to drink---well excuse me but it really pisses me off.
This is ONLY my experience with it--but be CAREFUL!
Trix