Good substitutes for liquors?!
Good substitutes for liquors?
I would like to hear of any good substitutes for Gin, Rum, Vodka, and such...I'm talking about a good option for preparing a drink without any liquor. I don't mean a Mocktail recipe, but a ingredient (or combo of them) I could use to get the same taste as Gin gives, for example.
Please just answer if you know or really have a helpful answer. I know it won't taste the same (alcohol has it's own burning sensation) but I would like to get as close as possible with no actual alcohol involved. It's not about opinions, but info, please.
Thanks for any info.
Answers:
When I was helping someone get off alcohol what I did is get those coffee syrups. You can get them in many different flavors. I made his coffee with these. Tasted like it but without the alcohol.
Give it a go.....I do not know what many alcoholic drinks taste like so i went by what people advised to me to try...Irish something, and there was a scotch something in there....a butter rum or something rather....
BTW at first he drank tons of the stuff but now he is drinking coffee black and has not touched a drop of alcohol in a couple years......You can buy these at cash n carry if you have one?
It's been shown that if you give people tonic water and tell them it's a vodka tonic, they'll believe you and even seem to get drunk! Put a lime on it and a little squeeze, and they'll believe you. Also, I think you can do a Virgin Mary with just tabasco, V8, some tonic water and a cucumber stick and people think it's real. Gin is hard to imitate, but if people think they're drinking vodka, they'll believe it, because vodka is flavorless.
Ginger is good in drinks, it gives a burning sensation similar to alcohol and you can vary the taste by making it less or more sweet. A good example is ginger beer (non alcoholic). Popular in England, I don't know whether it is available in the USA.
in the spice isle you can get rum extract, it's for baking, but it's rum flavored.