And to answer your explicit question, no, you can't say "I like X than Y" or "I like to drink X than to drink Y".
"like ... than" isn't proper grammar for a comparison.
Please excuse me if I got lost somewhere along your train of thought, but isn't "I prefer coffee to tea" the very same sentence you corrected in the OP?
Please excuse me if I got lost somewhere along your train of thought, but isn't "I prefer coffee to tea" the very same sentence you corrected in the OP?
No, I didn't correct it. I just overlooked the title when I was checking for the correct versions given by others. I've deleted those lines. It was meant to be another suggestion. Fortunately that was not the main point of my post.