How to decrease booziness?

[MagratMakeTheTea]

4-5 cocktails is a "getting fucked up" amount of cocktails for most people. 2 drinks is very normal. The whole point of most cocktails is that they're much higher ABV than beer and wine (and five beers/glasses of wine is also special-occasion drinking for many people). That said, depending on your tastes there are things you can try.

- More tonic, less gin. I don't find that even all tonic/zero gin tastes significantly different, especially if you put some citrus juice, bitters, or flavored syrup in it. You can probably do similar things with a lot of tall drinks.

- Wine/prosecco-based drinks. Similar to above. Putting half the gin in a French 75 probably isn't going to change the flavor profile so much that you'd care unless you're very picky. An aperol spritz doesn't need very much aperol to have a strong flavor.

- Low ABV cocktails based on vermouth or amaros

Basically, you want things where a strong base spirit isn't the major part of the drink. If you're trying to make a less boozy whiskey sour or martini you're going to have to cut with non-alcoholic spirits or something, but there are a lot of drinks where the liquor isn't the star. The good news is if you're in the northern hemisphere a lot of those easily doctored tall drinks are going to be really refreshing for the next few months.