really depends on the mood. and mine does swing a lot. since I work at home (writing stuff) and without real work hours (sometimes I pull all-nighters, sometimes loiter for a few days), I would say I average about 2-4pints/day, more when I pull night shifts.
Usually start with one when I cook dinner (yep, I cook in this house), then one with the dinner, then probably one darker "dessert" with the daily soap on teevee and one-two "night caps" to make me sleepy.
Goes really up when I get my drive on and clacking keys through night. Odd thing about it, I sorta never get "really" drunk - is it just me or the home brew has this effect? I get the buzz, but its nothing like from wine or hard alcohol which I havent touched for couple years now (friend Jack met friend Jim and they both dried up during night some 5-7 years ago and I still got to walk.. on all 4 tho).
I think my record so far was 10 beers during the day - oddly enough it was brew day. All those beers were spread out, so I was a bit "elevated" and was "calling feebs" from the WC every 5 minutes, other than that was perfectly fine.
I have also noticed that I'm less depressed when Im on "homebrew". This nasty disorder is plaguing me for some good 7 years now and I really prefer having 3-6 beers/day as opposed to prolonged joy of antidepressants combined with ever increasing dose of addictive sedatives for sleep. Light alcohol sleep is sooo much better than chemical one or the total absence. Having said that, I have tried a lot of things - clean living, no smoking, no coffe, no alcohol and combination of those things and I have discovered that its better for me and people surrounding me that I'm slightly buzzed from brew than being dark and gloomy.
Another thing I have noted is that since I started using homebrew, I get less "sniff n cold" during winter and less stomach disorders asides from usual homebrew joy of loud farting.
anyone else?
