Um, I take caffeine pills when I desire caffeine. However, when I want a flavored drink that's NOT sweet (like most juices, or soda's, or.... well, anything I can think of for a cold drink beyond water), I'll take a beer or in the cold months a coffee. Hell, I own decaf coffee specifically so I can have coffee at night and not have any undesired caffeine. I don't do non-alco beer though - just too different of a composition from the real stuff. However, I don't even catch a noticeable buzz of from one beer.
And I'm not sure what you're on about with the comments about children. Yes, kids like sweet things. We know that. Kids also like large purple dinosaurs. Does that mean that those of us who prefer watching "Alien" are also oddballs, and should instead true up and start singing "I love you, you love me"?
Further - you do realize that gourmet cooking is often despised by kids, right? Or is that also a case of drugging, somehow? I mean, the kids say "Pizza & Mac & Cheese" so that's what we should be eating, right? Hell, it's crazy to think that in cooking, one should use all of the taste options available.