I wouldn't be asking resetera for advice on socialising.
You say your a "brown skin" of immigrant parents, the only thing I can think is, so what.
Nobody does everything their parents want, your also an adult, if you want to drink that's on you buddy.
I'm sure your friends as teenagers weren't supposed to be drinking either that's not exclusive to muslims.
If you do start drinking now, go slow at first, people who didn't learn to drink as teenagers tend to get absolutely fucked up the first times they go drinking. Alcohol has been around for millennia go enjoy some.
But not too much, ok?
This is pretty much exactly what I'm getting at. Especially the last paragraph.
Yes as a Muslim I was told alcohol was forbidden. Same thing with sex before marriage and needing to eat Halal food. As a child you just go along with it all. But once you are an adult, you make your own choices.
My decision not to drink now, is purely because I don't want to drink. It's the same reason I don't do drugs or smoke cigarettes even though they are allowed. It's mainly for health purposes, but also I dislike the smell of alcohol, just like I can't stand cigarette stench.
It's nothing to do with it being forbidden. So is sex outside marriage, but that's gone out the window and I have zero qualms about that. Same for halal meat. I don't particularly care about it, I'll eat whatever. But in the end, I rarely eat meat anyway.
Your last bit encouraging me to try some and the overall tone of your post is pretty much exactly what me and other people get when we say we don't want to drink alcohol at social events. 'Go on try a bit, you're an adult now' or 'people do forbidden stuff all the time'. It's like some people just can't fathom how someone can't be interested in drinking for their own personal reasons, so try to convince them anyway.
Unless all of what you said was meant to be sarcasm