“I don’t drink” is almost always good enough by itself. My best friend doesn’t drink and I have rarely seen it questioned beyond that; “Medical reasons” is usually all the elaboration necessary.
There’s an old trick of getting a nonalcoholic drink that looks like an alcoholic one. Ginger ale in a short glass looks like scotch & soda. The gibson (a martini with a cocktail onion) was actually invented by a guy who was sick of drinking at social functions and just put water in a martini glass, and garnished his drink with an onion instead of the typical olive so that he could recognize it.
“I don’t drink” is almost always good enough by itself. My best friend doesn’t drink and I have rarely seen it questioned beyond that; “Medical reasons” is usually all the elaboration necessary.
There’s an old trick of getting a nonalcoholic drink that looks like an alcoholic one. Ginger ale in a short glass looks like scotch & soda. The gibson (a martini with a cocktail onion) was actually invented by a guy who was sick of drinking at social functions and just put water in a martini glass, and garnished his drink with an onion instead of the typical olive so that he could recognize it.
I think the drink you mean is a gibson, not a gimlet.