Because people will buy it. 

Yeah, thanks, but no thanks.

Came across a brand of alcohol free Aperol the other day - it was good and frankly it tasted no different. 

"because he likes the taste of tequila but doesn't want the alcohol"?

Do you mean why doesn't he like the taste of Tequila? 

I mean why does anyone just want to sip tequila?  There are some varieties of mezcal that are perfectly drinkable but tequila has to be my lease favourite shot and something I will never just sip.

Yes I like tequila up there with "I drink white spirit". 

the expensive stuff that comes in a ceramic bottle with a metal thing on top is quite nice.

Alcohol free is ultimate woke

I had an alcohol-free gin that I ordered by mistake recently. I wish intense harm on anyone who was involved in the production, marketing or distribution of it.

Low/ no booze alternatives i.e. fake i.e. alcohol free "gins" are really popular at the mo, esp with the under 30s

Yeah they don't know they're born...

There's alcohol free wine, rum, whisky, brandy and tequila at the supermarket where I buy my Sober Carpenter alcohol free craft beer.  Expensive and haven't tried it except for the wine.  Red is a bit meh but the white is certainly quaffable. 

We have an alcoholic in my house receiving treatment (not me) and we have no alcohol in the house any more.
 

I am becoming an expert on alc free and low (sub 0.5) stuff. There is still a lot of cack out there and not many good ones at all.  The so-called gins are strange, botanical waters. The wines are disgusting grape juice. Most alcohol free beers still have that revolting, chemical bread flavour. Guinness is the least offensive.  All the mass brand zero lagers are gross and one or two of the 0.5s are ok but thin. Lucky Saint unfiltered is the closest to drinkable. 

I thought everybody hated tequila and and only drank it to get pissed - alcohol free tequila is madness 

The alcohol free lagers taste just like their counterparts and are fine for a couple if you're out but driving but I wouldn't bother drinking them at home.  If I don't want something alcoholic there are plenty of decent existing non-alcoholic things to drink.

I don't like sweet drinks. 

Getting a dry drink with a kick like a shot of spirit is very hard. The nearest I can get to that is ginger juice.

Now, tequila free tequila on the other hand, I approve of that.

I only drink beer, wine and spirits because of the alcohol - to me its kind of the whole point of such drinks. 

Add to the list of things that make you go: "What's the point?"

Wot Guy said.

I can't imagine ingesting tequila without alcohol. one bad night in 2nd year of university involved drinking tequila warm and straight from the bottle. Now I can't even look at it without wretching, the smell will induce vomit like some sort of pavlov dog situation

Now..a nice margarita on the rocks with salt rim is somehow my cocktail of choice, but only because the tequila is sufficiently hidden by salty sweet limey goodness

Do you like a salty rim then?

Lucky saint

erdinger

guinness

all good 0ish% beers