Okay so let's have *THAT* conversation...
#1
Posted 27 April 2015 - 04:11 PM
#2
Posted 27 April 2015 - 04:27 PM
#3
Posted 27 April 2015 - 04:34 PM
#4
Posted 27 April 2015 - 04:56 PM
1-2 pints a day. maybe once a week nothing.
#5
Posted 27 April 2015 - 05:00 PM
I'll have one when I feel like it. Work hours are totally out of the question.
That O'Douls guy doesn't sound very pleasant.
#6
Posted 27 April 2015 - 05:06 PM
I don't know if I would call him pleasant or not but I think he's a good guy. One week when he was not there, I asked another guy on our team (who is close to him) why he drank O'Douls but nothing else. He said that he wasn't quite sure but that the guy used to drink A LOT. If they were going out for the night starting at 7pm, Mr. O'Douls would start drinking at 5pm and if everything ended at 1am, he would keep going until 3am. He clearly had an issue and realized it so I suppose I admire his ability to stop it but I don't admire his situation at all. For someone who loves alcohol to not be able to have it... that's torture. For me, I am relatively responsible with my drinking. I do not drive if I have been drinking. I might hit the taps on a Saturday afternoon when the Cubs game comes on and continue to drink until midnight but I am hanging out in the backyard and just chilling. I would never light it up like that if there was something else to do, I had to drive, etc.I'll have one when I feel like it. Work hours are totally out of the question. That O'Douls guy doesn't sound very pleasant.
#7
Posted 27 April 2015 - 05:08 PM
I've only encountered one craft beer/homebrewer that may actually be an alcoholic. I drink a beer or some sort of mixed drink maybe once a day at the most, but I'll go about a week without any alcohol sometimes and not think twice.
Your friend may have a problem and that's fine for him to drink Odouls. If he insists on putting down homebrewers then he needs an attitude adjustment.
#8
Posted 28 April 2015 - 07:26 AM
#9
Posted 28 April 2015 - 09:33 AM
#10
Posted 28 April 2015 - 09:49 AM
I have gotten the comments that you make your own beer so you must drink a lot. Like many here I go in spurts, some weeks I will have a beer a day, maybe a couple, but other weeks I have nothing. It has been some time since I was really drunk, I will "feel good" but that is about as far as I take it these days. I just do not have time for hangovers anymore! There was a thread in teh PH a few months back about monthly consumption and after seeing that I though I really needed to step my game up!
#11
Posted 28 April 2015 - 10:39 AM
Reached a point that I can't drink much more than a pint or two at a sitting, so I don't over do it with beer. Drink more wine these days. Spirits usually are consumed in the winter and only where I am spending the night. Been making beer, mead and cider for more years than I can remember but I've never had any one draw the conclusion that because I make stuff, I overindulge.
#12
Posted 28 April 2015 - 10:45 AM
There are usually a couple times a year where I'll just let loose and get good and drunk. It's always a safe situation though where I'm definitely not driving and the worst that could happen is a really nice hangover.
#13
Posted 28 April 2015 - 11:04 AM
There are weeks when i don't have any drinks and there are weeks when I go to town, on average I would say I drink 2 maybe 3 days a week and most of those days I may have 2 to 3 drinks.
#14
Posted 29 April 2015 - 06:58 PM
I am the same as many of you, and my drinking varies depending on life. I stopped making 10 gallon batches because I couldn't finish the first 5 before the second 5 was on the downhill.
I think in terms of what differentiates an alcoholic, is what consumes his/her thoughts. If all you can think of is the next drink, and when you can drink next, or how you can afford the next drink. If those are the questions you think of, then you need to evaluate if your appetites have become your master.
#15
Posted 30 April 2015 - 09:23 AM
#16
Posted 30 April 2015 - 11:24 AM
I am kind of like that as well. If I'm sick I have no desire to have a beer. I generally don't go a week or weeks without a beer. Nights where I would not have a beer would be if I had to work in the evenings or if there was some sort of school event I had to attend, etc. But I like to tap a couple beers while making dinner and then I may stop or I may continue depending on what's happening.I don't know how you guys go multiple weeks without a beer. Only time I don't want a beer is when I am super sick.
#17
Posted 30 April 2015 - 11:32 AM
My FIL decided to go all of April without alcohol. It's killing me. All my taps are at his house. I go over there at least 2x a week. It's nice to have a drinking buddy. If I drink and he doesn't I feel bad.
#18
Posted 30 April 2015 - 11:41 AM
During the week I have one with dinner, usually that's it. If I'm feeling extra chipper I may have a second, but I need to plan ahead for that and have lower alcohol beers available. Two IPAs and I might as well just curl up in bed, cuz I'm done. It's seasonal for me, too. Often times in the winter, during the week, I won't have anything. During the spring/summer it's almost always.
On the weekends, barring some type of event, it's 2-3 per day.
I can't escape the fact that the alcohol really slows me down nowadays. I don't remember it being like that years ago. If I drink too much I'm just a blob, unless I'm out somewhere with other people.
#19
Posted 30 April 2015 - 11:45 AM
My FIL decided to go all of April without alcohol. It's killing me. All my taps are at his house. I go over there at least 2x a week. It's nice to have a drinking buddy. If I drink and he doesn't I feel bad.
damn - so when you want some of your homebrew you have to go to his house?
#20
Posted 30 April 2015 - 12:53 PM
damn - so when you want some of your homebrew you have to go to his house?
Yup. I brew it there. I could take a keg home if I had extra, but most of the beer I brew gets spoken for pretty quick.
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