Anyone else actually wish you could drink more but dislike the taste of alcoholic drinks?

[Anonymous]

I feel like I've spent my whole life waiting to find an alcoholic drink that I actually look forward to drinking, and now at 33 I've realized I may never find it. I faked my way through college and my 20s and spent many nights with my head in the toilet. These days I don't feel much "pressure" to drink, but I do feel like every single person I know enjoys drinking occasionally. Also, I'm on the introverted side and I like the feeling of having a buzz at a get-together once in a while. (I'm talking literally a few times a year.) I'm thinking of the upcoming holidays and would LOVE to drink my way through stressful family events. In the old days pot used to serve this purpose for me, and I really wish it was legal and easy to come by, but it's neither so not really an option for me right now.

I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else feels this way. I feel like a freak. When I go to doctors' offices and fill out how often I drink, I actually lie and say a few times a month because I think that sounds more normal than once a year if that. When I go out with friends and order a soda, people always think I must be pregnant. I'm not. I just truly don't understand how alcohol tastes good to other people. I wish it did for me, at least a little bit. Not so much that I would have a problem of course.

Can anyone relate?

[Anonymous]

This is totally me. If others are ordering drinks I'll order a glass of white wine. But generally I'd rather have a diet coke.

[Anonymous]

don't be embarrassed. Be who you are. It's probably a good thing that you don't like the taste, given what it can do to you.

[Anonymous]

*crickets chirping*

OP, what drinks have you tried? Wine? Beer? Hard alcohol? Mixed drinks?

Give me some info on you and I'll bet I can find something you like.

What non alcoholic drinks do you like? Orange juice? Cranberry juice? chocolate milk? soda?

[Anonymous]

I never drink because I have never found an alcoholic drink that I like. At office parties, I carry a glass of white wine around and nobody notices that I am not drinking it. I started doing this after people started assuming that I didn't drink because I was a recovering alcoholic. (I was surprised how many people asked me if I was directly.) My friends and my DH love that I don't drink because I can always be the designated driver and I have saved so much money over the years. Most bars will give you all the diet coke you want for free (to encourage someone to be a DD) while my friends are spending $7 per cocktail.

I always tell the truth on medical forms and I assume that the doctor thinks that I am lying when I check the box for "never."

If you haven't developed a taste for something by 33, its probably not going to happen. Who cares? You shouldn't.

[Anonymous]

15:34 here. After posting, I feel like an alcohol pusher. If you don't want to drink, then by all means: don't drink. But when I was reading it seemed like you kind of wanted to drink, and hadn't found your 'signature' drink yet.

[Anonymous]

OP, there is nothing wrong with not drinking alcohol. There are a lot of people who don't, even though sometimes it seems like everyone else does. I wish I could still drink. I loved nothing more than a glass of wine a few nights a week with dinner or a Mojito during the summer. But I found out a few years ago that have an autoimmune condition which prohibits me from drinking at all (unless I want to have a liver transplant even earlier than I may already need one). It stinks! When I am out, I usually just say that alcohol 'doesn't agree' with me when asked why I'm not drinking. I do miss the buzz, but then again I know some moms who drink wine pretty much all the time (and post about it on FB) and I do feel sorry for them and their children. I'd rather be alcohol-free than to be like that.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm the same way. I just don't like the taste of it. I did manage to find some drinks that I do like, but they are all on the "girlie" side, and don't exactly say sophiscticated, so most of the time I just nurse a glass of wine. Some of the drinks I do like are sour apple martinis, frozen margaritas, daquiris, whiskey sours and anyting with lemon (I had a lemon-basil concoction a while ago that was really delicious). If it's too strong, I don't like it. You don't HAVE to drink, but I do get that sometimes it's nice to help you relax in a social situation - I am an introvert too

[Anonymous]

LOL

[Anonymous]

What a strange post.

[Anonymous]

I don't like the taste of booze either, unless it's very, very sweet - like a dessert wine, cider or fruity lambic beer (which my DH just introduced me too). But otherwise I hate beer and don't have a very sophisticated palate as far as wine goes (plus red wine makes me feel heavy-limbed, to the point that I've wondered if I'm allergic). I don't sweat it, and always order soda, and nobody seems to care or notice.

[Anonymous]

^^"to", not "too"

[Anonymous]

Hmm. This post is making me really want a glass of wine.

If you don't

[Anonymous]

Hmm. This post is making me really want a glass of wine.

If you don't like the taste though, you're probably better off. At the very least, think of the saved calories.

[Anonymous]

I feel that way. Would love to be able to drink, but it is just not my thing, DH either. Caffeine, on the other hand, can be pretty handy if you have other things going on. Well, at least caffeine is harmless.