10 Best Alcoholic Drinks That Don’t Taste Like Alcohol

Taste tested, we approved these 10 best alcoholic drinks that don’t taste like alcohol.

I remember my freshman college roommate telling me she didn’t like the taste of beer. I do not understand this person. Is your tongue broken?  How can we continue to share a bunkbed after this fundamental difference has been revealed? Somehow we managed–but college teaches you to accept those who are different from you. Later at my first company, I worked with someone who hated whiskey, even the smell, again I felt like I was speaking a different language. How can you hate my beloved! However, diversity is critical to life–including diversity of taste.

So welcome all you who don’t enjoy the good smoky burn of a bourbon or the herbaceous juniper tickle of a gin.  If you want to, maybe in time, and with persistence, you can learn to like the taste of good booze. But you also don’t have to do so. This is 2017! If you don’t like something don’t drink it. Life is too short. Never trust someone who says “I know you don’t like X, but just try it.” What kind of scam are they trying to pull?

And eventually if you want to stray from the evil spirits, you might want to try your hand at a Food As Medicine class. Hey – doesn’t hurt to look at your options.

Also, let’s dispel with the nonsense that these drinks are just for women. They aren’t pink and they don’t cost 30% less to make up for the wage disparity. Seriously, you don’t drink them with your vagina.  They are for anyone who doesn’t like the taste of alcohol or who just happens to be in the mood for a more easy drinking beverage. Also if you are feeling under the weather check out 7 Best Alcoholic Drinks For A Sore Throat, Cough, And Cold.

Mixed drinks or cocktails, as they are more popularly known, have been around since the beginning of the 19th century. Cocktails are as combinations of juices, different alcohols, tonics, water and fruit or other garnishes. They are best for social drinking, and many of them taste better than straight alcohol. We are currently in the denouement of a cocktail craze sweeping the nation, started mostly by Mad Men and Sascha Petraske.

Apart from cocktails, there are also other alcoholic drinks that do not taste like alcohol. These drinks usually have lower alcohol content and therefore the taste is not as strong as the others.

The data used in this list were sourced from Pop Sugar and Leaf.TV. The drinks are not ranked, and are in no particular order–as taste is, of course, very subjective. They’re called taste’buds’ because they are there for you in a way no one else truly could be–to report to you when drinks are delicious.

10 Best Alcoholic Drinks That Don’t Taste Like Alcohol for a tasteful, unforgettable experience.

10. Malibu Rum

It’s like summer in your mouth–or at least Spring Break ’86. This booze has a tinge of coconut and Curacao. It is popular because while its taste is evocative of sun tan lotion, it also packs a punch.

9. Strawberry Margarita

We are continuing our list of best alcoholic drinks that don’t taste like alcohol with one that is very popular on Valentine’s day or any other day – strawberry margarita is available in almost every bar you know. It mixes tequila with fresh or frozen strawberries, and then some fresh lime juice.  If you drink this cocktail frozen you likely won’t taste much of anything.

8. Pina Colada

A tropical drink for people who love getting caught in the rain, this cocktail ranked8th on our list of best alcoholic drinks that don’t taste like alcohol, will take you to your best summer memories and perhaps other odd places. It is made of white rum, crushed ice, and then coconut cream and pineapple. If you feel like drinking immediately and are very indiscriminating about what you put in your body, there are ready-to-drink pina coladas in the market today.

7. Sex on the Beach

This was one of the first drinks I ever tried and like most firsts it was great at the time, although now I see there is much more out there. It’s a hit at frat bars, spring break and parties fancy enough to have a stocked bar, and unfancy enough to have teenagers. Its base liquor is vodka. They add peach schnapps, a peach-flavored liquor, and also put orange and cranberry juice.

6. Girls Next Door

Also based on vodka, this up-and-coming cocktail is made by mixing strawberries, hibiscus, and rosehip. It tastes so fruity, especially when added with pear liquor and lemon juice to mask the taste of vodka even more. It is so good, it’s one of the sure hits in the 10 best alcoholic drinks that don’t taste like alcohol.

5. Rhubarb & Strawberry Collins

A play on a Tom Collins this is yet another vodka drink as vodka is almost always virtually tasteless and odorless (unless there’s something wrong with it.) This one is mixed with rhubarb syrup, strawberry juice, some lemon juice, and fizzy soda. Rhubarb syrup is the jam.

4. Baileys

Baileys is one of the alcoholic drinks that to many people tastes good on its own–even if they don’t particularly care for alcohol. It is an Irish whiskey that tastes so much like brewed coffee, you can even have it for breakfast. With 17% alcohol content, you won’t be disappointed.

3. Midori

Available in most bars, Midori, one of the best alcoholic drinks that don’t taste like alcohol, is a green-colored drink with musk melon flavors. It tastes so much like lemon, and is a great first drink experience for people who are afraid of liquor taste, which is also the name of my band.

2. White Russian

This drink tastes a lot like coffee–coffee that gets you drunk, this one is vodka mixed with coffee liquor and cream. If you want it even creamier, skip the coffee liquor and mix vodka with Baileys Irish Cream and milk.

1. Raspberry Cosmopolitan

The writers of Sex and the City can be credited with this drinks rise in the early aughts.  This one contains vodka and then mixed with raspberry juice and raspberry liquor. To balance the sweetness of the raspberries, you can also add lime juice and finish with frozen raspberries. As Carrie Bradshaw would say “and I couldn’t help but wonder are we drinking this cocktail or are we waiting for a man to fall in love with us so we can put him away because we’re hung up on another unattainable man?”

These drinks make drinking something to look forward to, instead of making it a “never-to-do” thing for the younger ones. Even non-drinkers would love these cocktails, because they taste so good you can make them believe they are made without alcohol. If you ever want to try drinking for the first time, take your pick from the 10 best alcoholic drinks that don’t taste like alcohol.