What are the different Minhagim you or other people have with the drinking of the wine at havdala during the "9 Days"?
Do you drink it yourself, or do you use Chamar Medinah (a non-wine substitute)?
Which one is better halachicly? (You should probably define which Chamar Medinah you use, and if you give it to a child to drink, how old a child, and what gender.)
What if there is no child?
Answer
The Chazon Ish (quoted in Imrei Yosher, pg. 4) says that those who say Havdalah every week over wine or grape juice should do the same during the Nine Days as well.
In some places it is customary for a minor, if one is present, to drink the wine. The minor who serves the purpose should be a boy beyond the age of chinuch but who is not yet old enough to understand the concept of mourning the destruction of the Beis ha-Mikdash.[What this age is I do not know?] If such a child can not be found, any boy under bar mitzvah will do. (Mishnah Berurah 551:70).
While in other places an adult drinks the Havdalah wine. (Harav M. Feinstein in Moadei Yeshurun, pg. 154), the Aruch HaShulchan (O.C. 551:26) says people have the Minhag to drink beer (Chamar Medinah).
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