thewill,
No one on here will argue with your choices to do what's right for you. All that we can do is to speak from experience when a post is created to provide some insight and possibilities. When you make a choice to do something and someone responds with why it didn't work for them they aren't saying that you can't do it. They're simply sharing why what you chose to do didn't work for them. It's only stated with the best intentions and meant to help. Especially when you're early in sobriety. We've dealt with the AV long enough to know the games that it can play. Most of us have dabbled in NA beer or drinks.
With that being said I can understand where you say that you are choosing not to drink. However, you aren't going to hide from it.
Anna's experience is that she couldn't deal with doing that so she had to get rid of everything.
I tried non alcoholic beer one of the times that I quit. I did well with it for a bit. However, drinking it left me with an emptiness that wasn't being filled. I realized that I was fooling myself by professing that it was simply drinking the beer that I missed. It was the drunk, plain and simple. However, I continued to try to fool myself. Then, eventually, I purchased a six pack of real beer and poured out some of the non alcoholic beer and replaced it. I did this thinking I was fooling everyone around me. Eventually, I went from replacing 1/4 to 1/2 to 3/4 of the beer to saying screw it, if I'm going to drink I might as well drink. I ended up right back where I started.
You are saying that you do drink for the taste of the beer and not the effect. Maybe it will work for you.
We can't say it will or won't but we hope that by telling you that we've been there and done that it will help to keep you alert to the fact of what might come of it. The most important thing is for you to be honest with yourself.