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I would hope most will acknowledge this is more of an age thing than anything else. And like all things, tastes develop, change and mature over time in most cases.

Children love juice because they love sugar. Typically by some time in elementary school, they switch to soft drinks/soda and will typically be drinking cola, dr. pepper, mountain dew, whatever well into their 20s. For the sugar and also for the caffeine.

While there are plenty of people who start early (and a lot of early alcoholics among these) generally speaking, tastes in alcoholic beverages don't develop until early adulthood. For the young, inexperienced drinker, they usually drink what masks the taste of alcohol best, has the most amount of sweetness, and what gets them inebriated fastest.