Are you the, I get home from work and have a few beers at night kind of person?
The occasional drinker ie. drinks at a party, or out to dinner etc., but not really interested in drinking every day type.
If you fall into another catagory, go ahead and feel free to put it in.
Me personally I am an occasional social drinker. I can go weeks without having a sip. I had a friend that stayed at my place in May and brought beer that we didn't finish and I just threw it out yesterday since it skunked in the cooler it was in.
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2 shots of Crown and then 1 beer in the evening. Liquor before beer. Weekends only.
very infrequent
Same. I drank enough in my teens and 20's to cure me for my 40's.
I was at the beach last week, I think I had 5 drinks total.
Some months, I'm 2-3 drinks for the entire month.
It's just not my thing anymore.
Same here!
I'm with ya, Smoove. I drank enough ages 16-26 to satisfy my lifetime quota. I buy a 6 of Sam Adams every start of football season, and struggle to finish the last one by August the next year. Weak. Sauce.
Good, I feel better. If I go to a tailgate, I slowplay a beer for an hour then switch to water.
Much more than that and my stomach isn't happy.
This is the exact question that always frustrates the fuck out of me at the doctor's office because I don't fall into any category. Sometimes, I will go weeks without drinking. Sometimes, I have a nip every night. Sometimes, I get loaded.
Better questions would be: Is it football season? How stressful is work and life at the moment? Did the Hokies just lose? Did the Hokies just win? How does your bank account look? Are you tailgating/fishing/camping/grilling/etc.? Did your wife make the mistake of taking you to Fifth & Federal or Bootleggers? Did you wind up at a friend's house that possesses 11 different flavors of moonshine? Did you drink the night before? Dumbass, you do realize you drank half a bottle last night? Are you around family? Oh, shit! You have to deal with your family? Did your wife start ordering shots, and now you have to keep up? Did you order shots so she'd have to keep up?
Edit: I will probably keep adding more important questions as they pop in my head.
I'll have a drink after work more often than not. I've definitely gotten away from drinking more than a couple drinks in one sitting though. The 30s hangovers are a whoooooole different ballgame from the 20s hangovers.
Wait until 40's hangovers.........they can last up to 3 days my friend.......awful! I am with APFOW up there in the thread, I was dieting and didn't drink a drop for 5 months (outside of football season strategically) but I change with the mood and event. I don't drink every night for any stretch of time. I like Bourbon, wine, beer, vodka so it really depends what week it is for me.
What are hangovers? Never had one and I am in my 40's. The other night I realized belated I drank 1/3 of the vodka bottle with some mixed drinks. Had a buzz (drinking at home with no plans on driving anywhere), woke up fine the next morning.
... Never had a hangover, 40s?
This is sarcasm, right?
..or have you never been shit faced?
My record was five Long Island Ice Tea's at a sitting or seven Alabama Slammers another time. Never had a hangover.
you need to donate your liver to science when you die so they can duplicate and market the magic.
Science has proven that certain people have genetic mutations that help them break down toxins from drugs and alcohol differently.
Take Ozzy Osbourne for example: Ozzy Osbourne Is a Genetic Mutant
That being said, I don't push it by drinking heavy regularly. Normally, I might drink a beer or cider once a week guy.
I have a friend who just turned 30 and never has hangovers. So fucking jealous.
Weekend
Weekday (unless special occasion)
1 to 3 bourbon and waters every night during the week. A little more on the weekend, special occasions etc. etc.
This kind:
SHUT UP! LEAVE ME ALONE! I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT! WHADDYA WANT!? NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!
I realize I'm being Cpt. Obvious here, however that gif is a very nice surprise (& I ain't even drunk).
Really. I'm convinced my wife put somebody up to this thread and I ain't bitin'.
Beach drinker or if I'm grilling a lot of food (say for a birthday party at our house). Makes a good timer for when to turn/flip the food or check the lines. I could probably go the rest of my life without alcohol and not miss it much if at all.
Like the rest of us, if I'm reunited with college friends at a wedding/funeral/tailgate, all bets are off.
I'm a 10 beers per week kind of guy. Usually that's 1-2 per day. Sometimes its a football tailgate.
I am definitely very inconsistent about it. There will be some weeks I don't have a sip, others where I have 1 or two beers after work, and its always beer. I only drink liquor anymore at weddings or special events. It is safe to say that I have at least 1 beer every single weekend though.
Infrequent during the week (except for football season). Marathon day drinker on the weekend.
I have one rule: don't drink beer before noon. After noon, it's pretty much exclusively beer.
You would never make it on the west coast. Watching football at 9AM drinking is a requirement and sometimes that's beer!
I live in Arizona...it's usually Coke and some form of bourbon until noon. Big Gulp Cup, naturally.
You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
Mimosas in the morning, pale ales after work, brown ales in the evening, wine before bed.
Do you have a bowel movement schedule too?
...you don't?
Not only do you get paid to poop, but you are also using company toilet paper. It's a huge money saver imo.
It truly is.
Don't wanna know how many rolls you two go through.
They always get replaced by the custodial crew before we run out, so I have no idea.
The custodial crew always knows how full of shit you are.
The bad part is when my "remote working" lines up with the cleaning schedule.
I just know that the giant pack of toilet paper from Target lasts me basically all year so...
yes, drink coffee, poop 5 mins later. repeat until you lose 25 lbs.
Throw in a dip right after the coffee and you'll cut that time in half, that's a Highlander Guarantee™️.
Although I kicked that habit, I can attest that nothing gets the dookey juices flowing like a mad fat lip of Grizzly.
Anyone know why hangovers are so much worse in your 30s than in your 20s.
I feel like I'm more dehydrated all the time in my 30s and I drink a shit ton of water all day!
I chalk it up to recovering from everything more slowly as you age.
Simple, quick but not all inclusive answer:
Alcohol breaks down in two stages, one with ADH into a toxic substance, one with ALDH, into more basic parts. The ALDH processing slows with age causing higher and longer exposure to the toxic substances.
Medication, body composition, developed allergies and more also play a role.
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Mountain time zone. Saturdays in the fall consist of:
Mimosa kickoff.
Bud Light kickoff.
Bourbon kickoff.
Pac-Whatever after dark(ness).
But, to answer the actual question, 'problem.'
Wildly inconsistent.
APFoW pretty much nailed it for me. Most of the time, not much. During football season, it's pretty aggressive. When the weather is nice, it's pretty aggressive. When I'm on a heater at the craps table and can't lose it's really fucking obnoxious and it hurts for weeks.
Yeah. This. all of these.
I'm more in line with APFOW and 8300A. It varies greatly. In college I was much more consistent as a weekend binger, and one summer I took a weeklong trip to Florida with some buddies that I can only remember half of. But I haven't drank much lately. It'll probably get a bit more frequent come football season.
Y'all make me feel like an alcoholic
I'm here for you.
In my late 20s, so I drink no where as much as I did in college, and I don't drink every week. Usually drink during work happy hours or special occasions like birthdays, 4th of July, Cinco de Drinko, etc, most weekends during football season. UIsually keep it to 3 drinks max, but tend to get drunk about 5 times a year, need to let loose some time
I drink for football, vacation, and maybe a day out once a month. Almost exclusively beer, and never more than 3 or 4 beers on those days.
Standard Navy answer: 1-2 drinks, 2 or 3 times a week. (If you answer more than this, the Navy thinks you're an alcoholic.)
Real answer: I have a beer or two most nights. Sometimes a cocktail if I feel like experimenting. Weekends we tend to rage pretty hard.
But if you're in the Navy, aren't you required to drink Navy Grade gin?
Thats just for those who are trying to get there on 2 a day. That and a big glass.
standard across the board military-wise.
I'm a cheap drunk and that's the way I like it.
Despite my reputation on this site, I don't drink that much.
Really only gets ramped up during football season, and that's basically just Saturdays.
I'll usually crack open my first beer when Game Day comes on at 7am, and drink throughout the day.
It's usually all regret the next morning, especially when I log in here and see messages that I don't remember writing.
I've actually gone away from liquor almost entirely. But I won't let go of beer.
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Always pouring, never drinking? That's an interesting strategy.
A teetotaling bartender?
My perspective: I'm a world class beer drinker.
My wife's perspective: I drink too much beer.
Can't really have one without the other, I suppose.
You can't have a wife without beer?
You can, but it's tequila+Tijuana.
During the week, if I had a really exhausting day at work (I landscape during the summer), I'll drink a beer in the shower. Fridays and Saturdays I typically black out and spend all of Sunday wondering if I have any actual direction in life and who I've let down. Then I repeat.
At school, I also black out just about every Friday and Saturday and sometimes one night during the week. I don't know what it is about Tuesdays in Huntington, but I, along with many others, spend a lot of Wednesday mornings nursing a hangover.
Not sure what category any of that falls under.
shower beers are the most refreshing thing on the planet.
You are absolutely right. My dad gets it. My mom doesn't.
Easily my favorite standup right now. Dude is laugh out loud funny. Absolute wordsmith.
I love Kyle Kinane's material and delivery. Funny enough actually I do like his old stuff better, but it's all great. I plan on seeing him in Richmond in August.
Most nights I drink 1-2 beers after work. I ramp that up quite a bit if I go downtown on a weekend and during football season. I'm in my mid 20s and I rarely get hammered because my hangovers have become brutal compared to what they were in college. These days I just try to keep a nice buzz going when I drink.
If you think they're brutal now, just wait another 10 years
Eventually, you just learn to avoid them. Hangovers in your upper 60s are not pretty. That said, decades of drinking can help your tolerance out a bit and make hangovers less likely. Then, of course, you die...
My Dr said a couple of years ago, we're all dying , some just faster than others. Words to live and die by.
I believe it! I also had my gallbladder removed recently which severely worsened my hangovers.
I might have the occasional root beer....I only get heavily carbonated once in a while.
I enjoy cooking, and make dinner almost every night. If it is gym night or other activities I don't drink when I cook, but have a beer after, sometimes 2-3 depending on what I'm doing in the late evening. If I am not exercising after dinner I will have wine while I cook (type depends on dinner), or beer if grilling, and at least one with/after dinner. About once a week I get together with a friend or two. If I am driving I have about 1 drink an hour, usually beer. If its at my place I don't count, but guess 4-6 three fingers of bourbon on the rocks would be about right. If we go out for dinner with family I drive and seldom drink. If with friends and I drive, I'll have a beer. If my wife drives, I'll have one for the road (gin martini or gin and tonic, or manhattan) and one there. We often do something that involves having another drink or two with said friends after dinner as well. If at our house or wife drives, I don't bother to count. She cuts me off (and I thank her for it) if I have to many. If I'm driving, I'm drinking water. We take turns, fair is fair. Day drinking is reserved for vacation, visiting my parents, or an early VT game. If VT plays poorly I may not remember the end of the game, in case you could not tell that from some of my posts. Shitty day at work and all bets are off.
have you seen my untappd?
I was going to put out an APB for you if you did not see this thread
Generally 1-2 beers on any given night for me and 1-2 glasses of wine for the wife. But when its not football season I may go a few weeks without anything just because I haven't bothered to pick up any beer. During football season there is always beer on hand and if there isn't any the situation is quickly rectified.
We generally keep a bottle or 2 of bourbon on hand too. But that is generally reserved for really bad days or really good days. Basically "Today was awful, beer ain't strong enough" or "Today was amazing, beer ain't strong enough."
If I go out drinking, on a scale from 1 to "I swear, that was totally my brother that posted that on TKP," I usually wind up somewhere just short of "likely to sing the 877-CASH-NOW song on Main St."
Hey mod, what new hot spots should I hit up in Blacksburg? Going back next weekend and bringing the girl for the first time. Looking to impress in any and all ways and heard the Wine Lab might be open.
No idea on the Wine Lab, but in keeping with the theme of this thread, I've enjoyed hanging out at Rising Silo Brewery: http://www.risingsilobrewery.com/ Good beer, good atmosphere.
Haven't tried this place yet, but I've heard good things: https://www.jpetal.com/menu
Also a solid recommendation for food and beverages: http://www.blacksburg-taphouse.com/
Jeez, things change fast. I left Blacksburg in 2015 and haven't heard of any of those places.
I'll have to check them out when I'm in town for either the Miami or UVA games this fall.
Hmm... the Wine Lab website says it "will document the entire process from concept, to fundraising, to demolition of the space, to design and planning, through construction, and eventual opening...which is currently slated for July 4th!" No updates on the website, though there are a few pictures on their social media pages showing sporadic progress updates, most recently on June 20.
I'd be surprised if they hit their "July 4" target, but nice to see they are getting close.
Nothing major these days. A couple of drinks, every other weekend. It can vary between beer, wine and liquor.
I was told this was a judgement free place that wouldn't ask me difficult questions.
It's never been that.
That's what Fortnite is for, I'll never judge your bad play there.
ill have you know, i am a way better player when i have been drinking
I need an audio clip of that trash talking banter
One to two drinks at Wednesday night poker (usually hard cider and adding either a shot of peach schnapps or a shot of caramel vodka). Binge drink 5-6 times a year. I teach accounting at the University of Delaware, and I go on bar crawls with 50 accounting majors 2-3 times a year. They wear t-shirts with sayings like "it's accrual world" and "We're the LIFO the party." I get messed up because they always want to do shots (purple gatorades, applesauces, buttery nipples, etc). And then it is a fun bicycle ride home.
I bought a fifth for the fourth and drank it on the third! That pretty much sums up what kind of drinker I am. I blame it on the Irish roots.
I drink far more during football season it seems all moonshine as well nothing beats smooth cheerwine moonshine
Depends. Am I TDY?
Until recently, I probably average around 10-16 drinks/week, 95% of which were consumed throughout a 36 hour period between 6pm Friday and 6am Sunday.
As I've entered my late 20's, I've trended towards 6-10 drinks within a 4-8 period between Friday night and early Sunday morning.
I rarely drink unless I'm in a social situation.
I pretty much have a drink every day. I have 2 & 4 year old daughters and when I get off work my wife goes to work, so typically it's a cocktail after I put the girls to bed. Never so much as a buzz when I'm alone with the girls just for the off chance something happens and I need to drive somewhere in a hurry. If the wife and I both have a night off that might stretch to 2 or 3 cocktails. If I'm drinking beer I have the capacity to go through ludicrous amounts and just feel weighed down, so it's reserved for social situations, sports, places where I'm going to be moving a lot and can have double digit drinks without landing on the floor. There was one VT game where I had 16 or so beers pregame & then took my beernoculars into the game with 16 oz of liquor. That was rough.
I rarely drink on weeknights unless I don't have to work the next day. Friday and Saturday I will. Then its usually 1-2 scotches or bourbons. Also my hangovers have evolved now that I am in my 40's and primarily drinking liquor. There's no headache or sick feeling anymore, just extreme tiredness and thirst. I can usually feel better by consuming lots of water the next day.
My last beer was St Patrick's day, my last alcoholic drink was 4/5 weeks ago, CC and coke.
I'm too poor to drink. Ask me again in 15 years when all my kiddos have graduated from college. Oh yeah, there are 5 of them, in case anyone is wondering.
An experienced one.
I said earlier in this thread that I don't drink as much as I did in college, and that I'm now a moderate social drinker. Then I proceeded to get wasted this weekend and I remembered what I said in this thread. Guess I still gotta learn my limits..............