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Why don't you just drink one or two drinks in an evening? That's mostly what I do.
There are also alcoholic drinks that are unambiguously more delicious than non-alcoholic drinks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framboise is better than any soda.
You're going to be at a social weakness compared to others if you must always be at a baseline mental state during times of socialization. Alcohol makes socialization come faster via the lowering of inhibitions, making you ok to talk more, more comfortable interrupting other people, more comfortable letting your own words flow, etc. It's not better at accomplishing this than a benzodiazepine (and is in fact strictly worse) but they don't surf Xanax shaken with a twist at bars and networking events.
But how do we know it would not be even better without the alcohol? Or is the notion nonsensical?
For some reason the version sold in Belgium is lower alcohol than the exported version and probably tastes the same. I think it would be difficult to make it with 0% alcohol, but 1 or 1.5% would be fine.