How much do I drink a day

[kingmatt]

Hello everybody.
Here is an update on my daily consumption.

Today 15 glasses, yesterday 10 glasses, the day before 8 glasses.
I have made a scratch list to see what I pour from my keg.

I won't comment on whether I think you have a problem but you certainly made me feel more comfortable with my drinking a beer or 2 a night during the week!

 

[BruceH]

Humans have been self medicating since forever. If you are happy and not affecting others what does it matter?

I've known many people who drink as much or more than you are reporting. Some of them led happy, productive lives. They don't usually live as long as someone who consumes less but so what? Not everyone wants to live forever. Some just want to be happy while they are here and alcohol or other mind altering substances are a quick shortcut to temporary happiness.

 

[Radicaldata]

Are you in the general Fukushima area or work there? If not I wouldn’t worry too much.

Hello Beardless and all those that have replied,

Firstly (for other peoples comments); yes, I am an alcoholic the same way some are chocolate o'holics or heavy smokers, any number of o'holics.

I have no problem if my consumption is regarded as alcoholic or not. I am healthy and don't have any other vices.
I was primarily interested to read reactions as to my drinking and now I have and it is interesting.

Beardless, the answer to your question.
No I am not in Fukushima or any where near it, but, unfortunately most people are unaware that where ever you are, you are being affected from it.
For instance, are you aware that they are pumping around 300 ton of radioactive waste into the ocean EVERY day and have been for many years ? Not 300 gallons, 300 tons.
Have you ever read about it ? probably not because the MSM certainly don't want people to know.

By the way, yes our oceans are vast, and many people that know, think that it will just dilute away ...... it doesn't, it gets into the food chain.
It is killing many living things in our oceans and has been for some time, but all we hear about is masses of dead fish or dolphins etc due to some mystery the scientists cant understand.

The scientists do bloody well know, the just are not letting on because of the panic it would produce.

So, Fukushima is more of a concern to my health than drinking 10 glasses of beer every day.

Cheers.

 

[FatDragon]

So, Fukushima is more of a concern to my health than drinking 10 glasses of beer every day.

Cheers.

I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that upwards of 1500 calories of beer a day is more of a concern than the tiny amount of radiation we absorb in our daily lives, even discounting the alcohol in the beer.

What was your purpose in starting this discussion? It's pretty clear to see that ten beers a day is going to be considered excessive, even on a homebrewing forum, but you don't seem to be open to that possibility so why ask in the first place?

By the way:

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

 

[Iseneye]

By now I assume you are trolling. So you don't want people to criticize your excessive alcoholic drinking but you are happy calling others sad sacks for only having a few beers a week.

 

[madscientist451]

Here is an update on my daily consumption.

Today 15 glasses, yesterday 10 glasses, the day before 8 glasses.
I have made a scratch list to see what I pour from my keg.

If you brew a batch/ bottle it or put into a keg and have 2 glasses per week. YOU are a sad person.

 

[Vale71]

What was your purpose in starting this discussion?

I'd guess he's either trolling or he's really an alcoholic looking on a public forum for, unfortunately, the wrong kind of support.

 

[Pkrd]

Low dose radiation effects are still widely (and often hotly) debated. Much like a glass of beer a night, low doses of radiation may actually be beneficial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis

Of course high doses of either will kill you sooner or later.

 

[Derp]

Low dose radiation effects are still widely (and often hotly) debated.

My father was a radiation monitor in the Army during the 1950s and he participated in 60+ above-ground nuclear tests in Nevada and the Pacific. He was quite close to Ground Zero during the Nevada tests and he once flew in a helicopter that mistakenly entered the remains of a mushroom cloud post-test. He's still going strong at age 83, although some of his buddies died early of radiation-induced cancers.

My father has no idea of how much radiation he was exposed to, as his NCOIC handed everyone lead foil to wrap around their film badges. That way they wouldn't exceed the max dose and be sent back to their lame base in Alabama.

 

[Beardless]

Read the reply yesterday. Started my reply and decided I wouldn’t justify it by that reply. However, I’ll say there is a ton of misinformation, but there are a lot of organizations and people out there with nothing to gain by lying. I was curious why being concerned about Fukushima would be something the OP would mention, which is why I asked. Looks like I fell for the bait.

Suffice it to say when you hear generalities like “pouring 300 tons of waste per day in the ocean” you should make sure it gets fact checked and understand that it can mean 300 tons of water that must be considered radioactive since it was onsite but was checked and is actually lower radioactivity than what instrumentation can measure (still considered a radioactive effluent), or it could mean (what some people want you to think) 300 tons of uranium/plutonium/various byproducts of fission. At least in US it is more like the former since there are annual limits based on the exposure the general population surrounding the release point would be expected to receive (which is regulated by the government and those limits are extremely low).

 

[NickTheGreat]

I am on a brewing hiatus (young kids) but still drink plenty of beer. After the birth of my second kid, the only hobby I had time for is drinking beer while washing bottles. So I'd drink a couple of pints per night, starting last summer.

I put on a good 20 or 30 pounds. Part of this is that I'm in my mid 30's and do not exercise much at all. So it may have happened anyways.

So even if my liver could handle it, i'm not sure my waistline could. And I've always been a big/tall guy to begin with.

But hey, whatever works for you.

 

[Bubbles2]

First off, who cares....If you're a functioning alcoholic it is your life and live it how you want to. Just do not kill anyone in the process. Cheers.

For me, I was thinking about my consumption as I have drank at least 1 beer if not 2 a day since I started brewing. It's hard living in a whore house and not tapping that.
Currently, I am on a medication that requires no booze at all. I stopped, missed my evening brew, switched out for ice cream the first couple nights, now I only look forward to enjoying the 3 kegs I have conditioning in 3 months.. Meantime, I'll make some Ginger Soda with a Tumeric Kick I too live off my land.
I am kinda giddy about the weight I am going to lose and how sexy I am going to become. After all, like Keven Spacey in American Pie said; "I just want to look good naked".

I personally put a limit on my consumption and it could the craving, as alcohol is as addictive. If you are concerned about your health, which you are, due to your self proclamation of veggies and herbs, you might want to consider discipline.
ME only after 5 MY TIME not anywhere in the world Jimmy, even when I visit my friends who plow at 11am. Some days they indeed go down fast and easy. Yard work, sanding in the shop, etc. It is when I wake up and have a slight headache is when I reel it in and get back on my discipline and even abstain for a couple days just to see and to dry out.
I think a person should live their life, have the quality of life they desire, however to scramble at the end trying to save your life will be futile. Stick to your guns boy, as my pop use to say.

 

[Bubbles2]

Read the reply yesterday. Started my reply and decided I wouldn’t justify it by that reply. However, I’ll say there is a ton of misinformation, but there are a lot of organizations and people out there with nothing to gain by lying. I was curious why being concerned about Fukushima would be something the OP would mention, which is why I asked. Looks like I fell for the bait.

Suffice it to say when you hear generalities like “pouring 300 tons of waste per day in the ocean” you should make sure it gets fact checked and understand that it can mean 300 tons of water that must be considered radioactive since it was onsite but was checked and is actually lower radioactivity than what instrumentation can measure (still considered a radioactive effluent), or it could mean (what some people want you to think) 300 tons of uranium/plutonium/various byproducts of fission. At least in US it is more like the former since there are annual limits based on the exposure the general population surrounding the release point would be expected to receive (which is regulated by the government and those limits are extremely low).

Yet it is being found in the kelp beds off the coast of Washington State, and in the Tuna as is Mercury in the Salmon. Hence no Jap beer for me, and cut back on the larger fish. Which sucks living on the Gulf of Mexico.
I am sure there is an article about how that is B.S, as I am sure there is one that will endorse how a larger fish, who's diet is that of smaller fish affected might indeed build up a larger amount.
Which is interesting on an off topic. Your Google Search would come up different than mine. Why? Watch the "Creepy Line" on Netflix to find out.

 

[j1laskey]

Hence no Jap beer for me,

Wow.....way to keep it classy Alabama

 

[TheMadKing]

After all, like Keven Spacey in American Pie said; "I just want to look good naked".
.

Is this real life? Or are you actually Bubbles from trailer park boys?

 

[Bubbles2]

Wow.....way to keep it classy Alabama

Don't be so sensitive....LOL Abbrv' on a forum is norm

 

[GoeHaarden]

Fukushima...

What's more scary is someone, who drinks >10 beers and says they don't feel anything, getting behind the wheel.

 

[bracconiere]

Hello everybody.
Here is an update on my daily consumption.

Today 15 glasses, yesterday 10 glasses, the day before 8 glasses.
I have made a scratch list to see what I pour from my keg.

i had to put my beer glass on a scale to find out how much i was actually drinking. turned out i was only pouring 9oz glasses not 12oz....so i bought a glass paint pen to mark my glass with.....

i'd also say depending on how fat you are, might want to consider using gluco in your beers...works wonders for me....

 

[Dog House Brew]

My father drank 6 30 packs of Icehouse a month. He also drank 2 gallons of Early Times a month. Never missed a day of work nearly ever. I don’t think it was the booze that got him at 65. It was the pack a day of non filter Camels IMO.

Do you drink a lot, yes. Does it really matter, nope. I do 2-5 beers many nights. Many nights I never drink any. I drink a lot less when the kegger is empty. Beer is so stinking high I’d go broke with my habit. When fall comes and the days are short, all bets are off. It takes no time and my 12 keg keezer goes from full to empty. As long as you feel good rock it.

 

[Miraculix]

My father drank 6 30 packs of Icehouse a month. He also drank 2 gallons of Early Times a month. Never missed a day of work nearly ever. I don’t think it was the booze that got him at 65. It was the pack a day of non filter Camels IMO.

Do you drink a lot, yes. Does it really matter, nope. I do 2-5 beers many nights. Many nights I never drink any. I drink a lot less when the kegger is empty. Beer is so stinking high I’d go broke with my habit. When fall comes and the days are short, all bets are off. It takes no time and my 12 keg keezer goes from full to empty. As long as you feel good rock it.

Well, as soon as you start feeling not good anymore, it is already to late.

 

[j1laskey]

Don't be so sensitive....LOL Abbrv' on a forum is norm

You do know that is a derogatory term?

 

[Miraculix]

Don't know if you guys have seen people die because of alcohol addiction, I actually had the questionable honor to witness it first hand and all of the guys actually talked like many of you guys trying to justify, trying to talk themselve out of it, trying to reason, giving bs excuses blabla.... Well, at the end alcohol is a drug and an alcoholic is a drug addict. Hardest part for an addict is to face the truth, that one is addicted. A lot of alcoholics who are already in the dying process, because the body cannot take it anymore still would swear an oath on having everything under control.

 

[Radicaldata]

Hello All,

For my last post on the subject....

NO I don't drink and drive; even after 1 glass !
I started this thread more as a dig/shot at myself and was curious what reply I would get.
Yes, if there has to be a label, I am an alcoholic by many peoples standards and I am ok with that.
I have a great loving family and friends, 2 lovely houses, worked with weather scientists, owned an electronics business,
been a base player and singer in a band on a cruise ship, am fairly intelligent and generally very happy.
All the above has come to pass over the last 40 years all of which I have always had around 10 beers a day.

As far as the comments of my being a troll....if thinking that makes you happy go for it, but for others, NO I am not a troll
I simply don' see the point of wasting my time being one.

For those that have all the answers regarding radiation; good for you, I hope you are right (and I mean that).
My view is that there is NO safe level.
Mother Nature gives us an amount of radiation but also provides us with the foods to control it.
All other radiation is man made and man does not give us ways to rid ourselves of it.

Thanks for the chat and the many various opinions.
I do hope that any questions I have in this or other forums are not swayed by views on this one
as I have a few questions regarding kegging.

Stay cool and enjoy your drink.

 

[Jbuckley1996]

Hi all,
Am I an alcoholic ? ..... Na
I like my beer.
But talking to people I know that brew or buy beer, I drink too much.

Before I brewed my own, I would probably drink around 8 stubbies an evening.
Now I drink about 10 x 330ml glasses over an evening.

I don't drink to get drunk (or even tipsy), I simply like the taste.

Is that what you would consider excess ?

Cheers.

P.S. I am healthy,happy, and have a good life.

Well it seems to
Me that 10 beers is a lot of beer. My cardiologist would be worried. So, how old are you? If your like 25, you could handle 10/day. If you’re 65 you probably have a hell of a beer gut. I drink 2/day unless I travel then it’s beer free.

 

[Tbagger]

I would consider it excessive. I used to drink that or more in my 20's and looking back I would probably die if I tried to now days. I usually have around 6-10 pints a week and consider that to be a little excessive. I don't judge you for it though as the beer we make is usually quite good and it can be easy to overindulge. You seem to be aware of potential health risks, so long as it is not negatively impacting your life or relationships then to hell with what random people think. Enjoy your life as you see fit.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Alcoholism is a bit of an elephant in the room both among both homebrewers and professional brewers. And especially amongst craft beer drinkers who aren't themselves brewers. At least the former camps work for it.

"I like the taste" is a very convenient excuse. If you've judged enough comps you know just how little it takes to wreck your palate to the point it all tastes the same. At that point, you're just making excuses.

Whether or not you think it's a problem, own it. I'm definitely a heavy drinker as far as the public health authorities go (probably an average of 4-6 pints a day).

But I eat well, and get plenty of exercise (my principle hobby is powerlifting). I periodically stop drinking (partly to prove that I can, and at the same time in conjunction with periodic cutting cycles with gym/diet when my body fat % gets above my personal specs). So I don't feel like it's a problem. I'm in very good health (as long as you're smart enough to look past BMI.....f***ing phone docs...), and my drinking has no negative impacts on my daily life.

 

[Soulshine2]

nobody likes a quitter but if you have to ask (especially other beer brewers) if you have a problem, you probably do.
btw- I do one a night most nights , maybe one after work and one with dinner . Weekends , 3 to 4 from 3pm on. Moderation ,my friend.

 

[Invertalon]

Honestly, it is an excessive amount by any means. However, if you are healthy (blood work and all that come back OK, I assume?), retired and never put anyone else’s life at risk by driving or other activities, then enjoy! We all have to pick a poison, as I see it. Some love fast food, others beer, then you have those who drink copious amounts of caffeine and those who eat tons of processed foods… You can’t predict or know what will kill you in the future, it’s a gamble anyway. You could drink 10 beers a day for life and die of something completely unrelated. Or never drink and die of liver cancer. Fit athletes have heart attacks quite often, when in theory they should be lowest risk. Doctors can only suggest what science and studies have concluded, so far. Studies are always contradicting themselves with new "evidence" and studies.

As far as my own personal consumption, I only drink 3 days a week (and would like to cut it down to 2). We drink mid-week on Wednesday and then Saturday and Sunday. Those nights friends will stop over and we will just hang out and enjoy beer for a few hours. Over those few hours, probably equal to maybe 4 or maybe 5 pints total per person. Not more than that, though. Most of the time, these beers are lowerish ABV (6% or less) as well.

For the beer nights we have, socializing with friends and having a date night with the wifey enjoying beers together and enjoying the company is probably better for my health than the beer is negative for it. Just my hunch, though If anything, I got to lay off the sausage (hey, i'm polish...) and smoked cheese!

Days we are not drinking, it's basically one cup of coffee in the morning followed by large amounts of water the rest of the day. I eat a lot of veggies and such as well, cooking at home most of the time and just grabbing Chipotle every other week or so. Also make sure we get at least 10,000 steps per day and all that fun stuff. Just to help balance it all... I also make sure to go to the doctor yearly and get blood work and all that stuff, just to be sure nothing starts turning south and such!

 

[brewbama]

Some things are absolute truth and others simply personal conviction. Each of us will have our own convictions about things in our lives. Central truths are worth dividing over, personal convictions are not.

For one, abstinence from alcohol is important, for another alcohol at X beers a day is OK, and for another XX beers a day is OK. Responsible alcohol use is meant to be a blessing IMO. Crossing the line into irresponsible abuse such as uncontrollable speech or actions, putting others in danger, not remembering what you did or said, etc. are warning signs and should not be ignored. We’ve all seen the negative effects on the person, families, and society which is why some people prescribe and have gone so far as dictate abstinence. Personal responsibility is the key. Our society is full of irresponsible people which is why we have regulations and laws — an attempt to control irresponsible behaviors.

We all need to be honest with ourself and call it what it is. If we’re honest and we’re good, then we’re good. If we’re dishonest with ourself and say we’re good when we’re not, we may need to re-evaluate more than alcohol use.

 

[qldaussie]

I yet like to see an alcoholic freely admit to it...I brew for pleasure and drink only one or two 285 ml glasses a day, sometimes none.
But I always have a cool one for my friends when they arrive unannounced. THAT IS WHY I BREW, plus buying is too expensive.