You guys are not doing your part

[hkcavalier]

I enjoy beer. My running group is out of a local brewery. Nothing quite like a pint or two after running 3 miles in summer heat. I'm not too snobby with my beer at home. Sol Cheladas and Coors Banquets. We have hard stuff, but it's mostly for cooking. Sometimes the vodka gets used for Bloody Marys or a White Russian, but maybe twice a year at most. I don't do bourbon anymore.

 

[65Whelen]

I'm doing my part. All in moderation. A little sipping whiskey is a good way to end the day.

 

[Imissedagain]

Non alcohol wine, is called .......
Grape Juice.

 

[CajunBass]

When I was a teen, I worked on a farm owned by an old hellfire and brimstone Baptist teatottling woman. She was death on the demon rum (or any other alcohol) and she hammered me on it. "You ever notice beer looks just like cow....urine? Even foams up the same way." Only she used a more colorful word. But the advice she gave me stuck with me. "If you never try it, you'll never know what you missed."

Well, "Dollbaby" (I'd have NEVER called her that to her face.) I can't say I've never tried it, but I can say it never went past that stage. I've never found anything I liked the taste of. Nasty tasting stuff. Eventually I just stop trying, early in my 20's. She was right. I never missed it.

Now, I never cared if someone else did. Wasn't my job to nag them about it. I just didn't want it.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

At least two of my friends let it get the best of them years ago. I always try to keep one or two bottles around to sip on occasion, and there are two cold beer in the fridge. They've been there at least a month or longer all alone. In moderation. Don't drink and drive.

 

[Muddyboot]

 

[Oldsalt66]

Down 4% ?

Must be a slow news day.

 

[375hh1973]

I dont drink any more.

I dont drink any less, either.

 

[fordson]

All things in moderation…….

 

[lihpster]

Ne quid nimis.

 

[zeke]

Upon medical advice, I quit drinking alcohol over 2 1/2 years ago. Happily, the servers at the Eagles keep a jug of unsweetened iced tea for me. But I still tip them like when I was drinking alcohol. They are doing me a big favor.

Same, but it's been over 12 years ago. Doctor said alcohol won't mix well with all the meds. Course had to test that assumption , and went home and had a nice cold one. Put me on my butt the next day.

Still make a little plus p Irish cream for the holiday coffee. Also still miss "whiskey night", which was the only thing that could make me think i was witty and good looking, but still couldn't change others reality.

 

[Greyman50]

Had quit except for a few at some events until wife passed. Need to quit again and am working on it……..

 

[chief38]

Eggs are bad! Eggs are now good. Coffee is bad! Coffee is now good. Statins are good! Now Statins are bad. The Covid vaccine is good. Now the Covid vaccine is bad. A glass of wine is good. A glass of wine is now bad! Yes - if you do anything in excess it's bad for you - including vitamins and exercise. Things that are "all the rage "and rushed to market lack long term research.

So what does this tell us Ladies and Gents? It tells me that the Doctors, Gov't. Officials and so called health experts know a lot less than they profess!!!!! It also leads me to think there is more to the story of just our health and their "concern". Could financial gain, loss or change in market share have something to do with "their findings"????? While I am not a Doctor, research director of any health organization, or professional health worker - I am astute enough and have paid attention long enough to see what history has shown us and disclosed about all the theories and conspiracy's along the way.

Do not abuse anything. Enjoy and savor the things that help us enjoy life. Do not abuse or over do any one thing - even if "they" say it's good for you because tomorrow, next week or next month it won't be!

 

[Lance Boyle]

I cut back considerably from my younger days. But I still enjoy a few drinks.

Me as well. I was hardly a regular drinker but would have 2-4 socially in my 20- early forties.

Now it's rather rare, I had a 12 pack last me most of the summer at home augmented by a couple dinners at the fine German restaurant that imports Weihenstephan beers. I'm good for one, maybe a rare two. I just get full earlier in my aged years.

I often think I want a beer with dinner and then forget to get one. lol

Knowing I need to watch my carbs and sugars has me being less willful in alcohol or other less wise food choices. A bit of variety is maintained though. Lord knows I'm not eating steak three times a week at today's prices.

 

[16thVACav]

I limit alcohol consumption to days of the week ending in "y".

 

[JohnRippert]

I drank like a fish in my youth. These days I will drink maybe 3 times a week, and it is either a shot&beer or a mixed drink with sugar free soda. As Bryan Adams once said in a song, 'It just don't do me like it used to do'.

 

[Grayfox]

As a much younger man, I was a drunk. Never quite made it to alcoholic. I never reached the point where I needed a drink. But I was at the stage where, more often than not, one almost always led to one too many.
Been dry and sober almost 46 years now. Best thing I ever did.

 

[CalifEd]

And a lot of that way back in the Colonial era and early 19th Century was hard cider and rye whiskey.

Beer didn't become big until the mid 19th Century with the large German immigration, IIRC.

I was with a group that went to City Tavern in Philadelphia to sample some colonial food, or so it was advertised.
They had a beer sampler, 5 different brews, according to them these were authentic and produced as they would have been back in the 1770's, original ingredients and methods, etc.
2 were passable if you were already drunk or dying of thirst, one was made with Pine Needles (tasted like turpentine) the rest were so bad we just left them.
It was agreed, the real reason for the American Revolution was the sorry state of the beer at the time.

 

[Warren Sear]

There is not a damned thing funny about being a drunk.

 

[NYlakesider]

There is not a damned thing funny about being a drunk.

Maybe not for the drunk, but the people watching might have different ideas about that.

Full discloser, when younger drinking age was 18, me as a big older looking person had no problem getting served at 16. By the time I was 20 was well on my way to being a serious drunk. Tapered off considerably when I met the right girl. Now for the last 20 years might drink about 7-8. That is about 7-8 a year, all at a restaurant having a birthday party or anniversary, 1 drink one at each occasion!