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Interesting. I sometimes get questioned on why I don't drink, but my response of "I don't dare lose a single brain cell" or "I have an addictive personality, I don't dare try World of Warcraft either" is usually accepted with a smile. Following Michael Vassar's theory of how excessive visible virtue is disliked as rivalry / implicit criticism / showing-up, I'm probably already seen as belonging to a sufficiently different category that I have dispensation to be virtuous without it counting as an implicit criticism of normal people.
I don't usually advocate lying, but if your companions are being sufficiently silly, maybe you should get ice water, drop in some blue food coloring you brought from home, and tell them it's Romulan ale.
This is hilarious, but I suspect would not help in the situations where this was actually a problem.
You could try it and see what happens. (Or use a different color and make up a different name.)
Heh. I did once (during college) bring a gigantic bottle of water, and for the first half of the party a lot of people assumed it was Vodka.
I'll take this variant idea under consideration.
Or Incredibly Strong Ale...
This is the same reason i give for why i don't drink and all my friends seem to be cool with it. I even go out quite ofter when they get drunk and they don't push me to drink or anything. I heard it originally from James Randi and now has become a cached thought of mine.