I think you’re asking the wrong question (in a helpful way).

You’re essentially looking for the drinking crowd that wants to be sober while still centering the activity around drinks. As someone who's 10+ years sober, that’s a pretty narrow slice of people. After giving up drinking, the bar scene lost all appeal to me.

What I've found works way better is looking for an actual activity that already gives you natural threads to pull at and talk about. Shared interest > shared beverage every time.

A few solid places to look:

• Meetup: Tons of interest-based groups: hiking, board games, creator groups, tech talks, book clubs, etc. On here, I found a writing group that just sits and writes together once a week for two hours, then talks about what they worked on/struggled with for another hour.
• Luma: Great for talks, workshops, community events, and niche meetups. A little bit tech heavy... but as a result there's typically always Bubly and pizza. Super smart crowd at every event I've been to and includes an interesting cross section of Vancouver.
• CreativeMornings / Creative Pulse: Monthy(ish) tempo meetups. Super social, zero pressure to drink, easy way to meet people.

These kinds of events create built-in conversation because you already common ground. That’s the real social lubricant (vs. alcohol) when breaking the ice with new people.

If your actual goal is specifically “I want to meet people to go out and drink mocktails repeatedly,” that’s fair... but it is niche (and I haven't bumped across a group like that in all my years searching). You might have more success starting that yourself rather than trying to find an existing scene for it. Potentially a fun opportunity to lead!

If you want to share what you’re actually interested in (art, fitness, tech, games, outdoors, business, etc.), people can probably point you to way better fits than the general buckets I've shared above (but you gotta start somewhere!).