DontRemember

What's your thoughts on NA beer? I'm DD for the super bowl this weekend and thought about having a couple NA beers as my drink..just curious on your opinions on them..

daxemus

I drank some non-alcoholic beer and ended up craving and obsessing about alcohol again.

My sponsor says non-alcoholic beer is for non-alcoholics

Just set myself up to be all squirrelly

Nonsensical

Is it a gateway drink? I don't know. All I know is it tastes like dirty sock water and gives me a headache.

breath

This is one of those topics that pops up quite frequently. My feeling, and one that is shared by quite a few SR members is to move on, forget about anything close or related to the past and that includes na beer. There are plenty of beverages available that are less relatable to our drinking days, and making that choice lends to our recovery process/plan.

Anna

Here you go:

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...beer-wine.html

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...6-na-beer.html

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...beer-wine.html

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...good-idea.html

LBrain

depends, really

how much sober time do you have?
is this the first time you are trying them?
What are you going to do when you discover they don't taste like 'real' beer?
What are you going to do when you discover that you ran out in the first half?
What are you going to do when your party friends start doing jello shots and things like it and try to get you to join in?

It's a tough call. Maybe consider watching at home?

MIRecovery

Beer of any kind was part of my old life not my new

DontRemember

Sunday will =7
Yes
probably switch to either cran/soda or water(my new addiction)
switch to water
Not have any and they know what i'm doing and respect it. These are friends that had to pull me off a guy on NYE, so they understand what i'm doing.

anattaboy

Do they have NA scotch-on-the-rocks? or NA bourbon? I defended my right to NA beer some 5 months ago (newly sober) and no longer feel the same.

DontRemember

I guess I should have used that thing called "search" LOL

Niamh

Tried it as part of my taper. Bad idea, made me more sick. Powerful craving from the smell.

DontRemember

After looking through the older threads, I think i'll stick to cran/soda(i still want to type vodka habit) and water.. I never drank vodka/cran so it doesn't bother me. I can honestly say that I am happier not being drunk. Even before my last triggered relapse on NYE, I was not 100% content. Now I can freely drive whenever/wherever I want, make better financial decisions, just all around more calculating in all aspects of my life, when I have a clear mind. I love this feeling! It's been a while!

Tally809

Just my opinion....that seems like playing with sobriety and I'm not playing. It's life or death for me and like I say- I'm not playin.

DontRemember

I tried to taper...didn't work well for me. Cold turkey was my only way.

Soberwolf

Hi DontRemember for me its too close to the real thing ...read the links anna kindly supplied there have been extensive discussions on this subject

Your doing well bud

DontRemember

I read them all...I won't be having it,as it just might trigger and I'm done with those things!

upminer

Works well for me and that's all I'll say....

ScottFromWI

It is a hot topic around here and it does come up a lot, but there's no shame in asking the question if you truly want to know.

I personally had similar experiences to some of the others. I tried it at first but started drinking it like it was real beer - drinking fast, drinking a lot, hiding it from others, obsessing about it. Eventually it led back to real beer too more than once.

Hope4Life

As I've said before.... If it looks like a beer, tastes like a beer, smells like a beer, feels like a beer or reminds you of beer, It's a beer!

Stick with water and have a great time!

IOAA2

Hi.

Most NA beer has approximately 1/2 of 1% alcohol.

I’ve heard too many horror stories about alcoholics consuming it.

Do the math and find out how much in a case.

BE WELL