AM drinking...

[Zamial]

Last Oktoberfest we had guests over. Breakfast was omelets served up with Founders breakfast stouts for the guys and mimosa for the ladies. (I would have offered the ladies some of the Founders but 1 hates beer and SWMBO has caffeine sensitivity issues.) We then called the cab to take us downtown for the events at 9am. The guys had a pint of Staghorn while we waited.

Camping, I will almost always drink beer with breakfast and then all day and into the night until I wake up my tent/sleeping arangment. My future father-in-law has a sign on the back of his RV that reads "It is 5 o'clock somewhere."

IMO If you want a beer have one, time of day, biological clock or just plain logic be damned!

 

[superjunior]

this time of year I plow snow at night. anyone here that lives between cleveland and buffalo knows the drill. I see nothing wrong with having a couple in the morning before I go to sleep

 

[margarita_man]

12 hour rotating shift worker here. Best arrangement I've had is carpooling before the open container laws in TX. I drove on days because I couldn't have a couple on the way home and then get anything done. My carpooling partner can't drink in the am, so he drove on nights. We both could have a couple on the way home when it best suited us.

 

[avidhomebrewer]

I worked 3rd shift already, getting off at 7 am and going to the bar to have a brew. I see nothing wrong with it; it is your 'evening', if you will. Plus, after a good days (nights) work, the brew goes down very well.

 

[HerotBrewer]

Tell SWMBO that it's 5pm somewhere.

As another third shift worker (10pm-6am), I also drink in the mornings. If I didn't, I'd never get to drink. The cashiers at the local store even know I work third because I am often in there buying a six pack at 8am.

I have a family friend who is a German sausage maker, born and raised in the Old Country. His idea of breakfast is a large soft German pretzel and a beer. For breakfast. Every day. And he's getting up and going to work!

 

[coastwx]

We fish offshore in the Gulf Stream about 5-8 times a year. Get up about 3-4 am, on the boat and leaving port around 4-5 am, when we get out to the Stream it's sunrise and many in our crew pop open a cold one to celebrate the start to our fishing day. That is about the only time I can drink beer in the am. However, this year I was invited to several tail gates for noon games. I went to Lowes food at 8:30 am and got a double chocolate stout that was an awesome way to start the day. With that said, I rarely draw my first beer on the weekends before 2 pm. That may be noon today since I'm going to start brewing at 10 am.

If I worked the overnight shift, I'd definitely have a couple before jumping into the bed. You got to unwind a bit after work and it does not matter the position of the sun.

 

[sportscrazed2]

I have an amazing coffee stout in my fridge that i'm tempted to drink this morning

 

[passedpawn]

Drinking in the AM is a sure way to ruin the rest of my day. I can't do it. But I envy you guys with a more robust constitution than mine.

Regarding the OP, that's just drinking after work. That's what drinking was invented for!

 

[jfr1111]

I don't drink much in the morning, except when we are snowed in and I just finished shoveling. In this case, you bet I'm drinking a stout with my feet propped next to the fire, even if it's 9 AM.

 

[brian74]

So the SWMBO thinks that just because it's 0800 I'm an alcoholic (the conversation was at 0800...I'm still drinking). Ha! Two points: One, I worked last night, so it's like 2000 to me. Two, my beer tastes great and is drinkable at any time! :rockin:

The other morning I woke up at 0330 and had a beer...I stayed up though. Those of us on the night shift are a bit different...I'll come home and want tacos for breakfast...or is it supper?

 

[Hugh_Jass]

you can't say you've been drinking all day unless you start in the morning.

 

[Brewdouche-RuBrew]

Ok so I think we have it down. Drink responsibly, when you dont have responsabilities to fulfill before you can soberly, and the clock is irrelavant.

It also seems to me the stigma is purely a cultural thing. It's 5 O clock somewhere, AND at different times for different people.

"Different strokes for different folks"

 

[MetallHed]

third shifter.. bars are open at 6am here.. stack o' cakes and a pint!

On my weekend I still drink in the morning when I wake up, but it's even better because then I can continue without having to go to sleep (on purpose, anyway).

Frown upon A.M. drinking? Stfu and gtfo, your wife is calling.

 

[CreekBrewery]

I have to agree with my fellow cheesehead. Up here beer is just another food so saying you can't drink before noon is like saying you can't have steak for breakfast. I'm not getting pissed up early but if I'm thirsty I'll drink what I like regardless of the time of day.

 

[gtpro]

Do what makes you happy as long as it doesnt harm anybody (including yourself), harming a relationship counts as harming yourself. All you can do is try to get her to understand, there have been worse things in the world.

 

[buffalobrewer]

golfing, fishing, tailgating, 3rd shift all good reasons to crack one open in the the am!

 

[HollowPointBrewer]

No problem at all. I think those who do have a prob with it are the ones with alcahol issues. You just got off work! You didn't just get out of bed and start your day by drinking! And that's just fine on occasion too. I bartend and have frequently had a beer or something after getting home at 3am. Used to work night shift in a warehouse and when we had mandatory overtime I would get home near sunrise. I really enjoyed coming home to sit in a lawnchair to watch the sun come up and have a beer. Then I went to bed, relaxed.

 

[superjunior]

golfing, fishing, tailgating, 3rd shift all good reasons to crack one open in the the am!

it always ruins my golf game - good times, bad score :cross:

 

[Wayoff]

I worked midnights for years.. Mornings are our evenings. My ex always said the same thing.. Notice I said Ex

 

[altenmuenster]

I don't work night shift, but in bavaria, a bavarian breakfast is a half liter of Weissbier, a pretzel and two Wesswurst. Yum

 

[biochemedic]

We have some local bars that open early for third shift workers, nothing like a bunch of drunk cops and nurses in the early AM.

+1!!! in my medic days, I worked almost exclusively overnight, and my partner and I could often be found at the local hole with bacon and cheese omelets and Guinness at hand (along with a good smattering of cops, ER nurses, firefighters, etc...)

 

[sportscrazed2]

as Alan Jackson once said "it's five o'clock somewhere"

 

[brian74]

Yeah Waldo, I'm an RN and just got off work and went to Rudy's BBQ with the crew for some breakfast tacos and beer!! Awesome.

 

[nobody]

my job has no set hours. i'm on call 24-7-365. when i put off at my home terminal i'm home for at least 10 hours. i remember getting off work around 9:30am one morning and stopping my o charlies around 11:00am and getting a l.i.t. the waitress looked at me like i was nuts!!

i drink in the mornings,afternoon,evenings and nights. for me anytime is a good time as long as i am at home or have a driver with me.

 

[TheWeeb]

Ah, when I worked for a company that had offices there, the fond memories of landing in Munich at 8 am their time and having a Hefe at the brewery in the airport, and then a Franzikaner at the hotel. ....

 

[PanzerBanana]

In Europe many wouldn't give it a second thought. It's just a silly assumption that one whom consumes alcohol in the morning must have a problem.

Heck, my girlfriend and I when we do brunch at our Granite City we go specifically at 11am so we can get our mugs with brunch. It's such a novelty. It's fun to see the prudes shocked at such a thing.

 

[Mateo]

"In Spain they wouldn't dream about starting the day without a couple of cans and maybe a vodka"



When I showed up for work my first day in Germany I drove up and saw all of these construction workers around 8:30am taking a break to have a monster sized can of beer.

In Belgium when we would all go down for a morning coffee the German soldiers would come down and drink beer.

I was jealous! Still am.

m.

 

[gtpro]

Hell, I was talking to a guy I work with from the UK and it wasn't uncommon for them to have what he called a "pub lunch" on a work day. You can bet beers were involved. Societal standards be damned, do what you please.

 

[CreekBrewery]

I have fond memories of such things when I worked in Germany. On my last day at the company they went out and bought four Kisten of beer and we drank out on the patio. They also had naked ****ies on TV over there... we're such prudes here!

 

[thethirsty1]

After working those hours morning is your evening its never to early/or late for a beer