Good substitutes for liquors?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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?

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

in the spice isle you can get rum extract, it's for baking, but it's rum flavored.