How much do you drink?

[BarleyPop]

I notice that when people find out I homebrew they often say "you must drink a lot" But that's not the case I Drink maybe 1-2 pints a night. I just enjoy good beer.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Much more than I should.

But, way less than I'd like to.

 

[dontman]

I'm on a college student budget, so maybe a beer a night if I can justify buying a case for the next week or two. Weekends I'll have a few throughout the day, again if there's any beer in the fridge.

As for parties, I try and limit it to a six pack. It's all about the budget these days

This kind of post just makes me sad. What the heck has happened to the education system since I graduated 22 years ago? We never had to budget for beer. I went to a small private non-party university and even there we had three to five school or frat sponsored parties each week which served unlimited beer.

Heck, my freshman dorm had a monthly keg party where the 20 kegs of beer came out of our dorm allowance.

It's a sad state of affairs I tell you. No wonder this world is in such turmoil.

 

[mitch171]

I know here in NY while I was in college they passed a regulation making it very difficult to get a keg with out a lot of money. Also if a party gets busted you loose a large deposit on the keg as the cops take it. So parties had to start using canned beer instead of kegs. That upped the price so that it cost more to throw a party and cost more to go to one. Now my friends and I realized loosing money on beer was ok because liquor was the money maker. So we still were able to do some parties.

Dorm sponsored parties would never happen now because only about a 1/3 of the students are of legal drinking age. I know at my college when the drinking age was 18 there was a bar on campus and I think you could even use your meal plan there. At least they do allow over 21s to bring alcohol onto campus some don't even allow that.

 

[bernerbrau]

One 12-oz or one bomber a night. On the weekends, two to five a night, but I'll take a break the next night if I drink that much.

 

[smoa]

I keep telling my wife the best thing about haveing kegs is that I can have half a beer.

 

[david_42]

that I can have half a beer.

Some times I run the taps with a 4 oz sampler. With two barley wines, a huge farmerhouse ale and kegged wine in the cabinet, anything else would be dangerous.

NY was an 18 state when I was in college and there was a bar on campus. I remember a few 10 cent beer nights. Most of them, I don't remember.

Yes, I'm old enough to remember 10 cent beers.

 

[beerocd]

NY was an 18 state when I was in college and there was a bar on campus. I remember a few 10 cent beer nights. Most of them, I don't remember.

Yes, I'm old enough to remember 10 cent beers.

Lived by SIUE for a while. 10 cent pitchers after a $5 cover and a live band.
Life was good. Yeah - I'm old.

-OCD

 

[mitch171]

I am almost constantly kicking myself for not getting into home brewing when I was in school. I had all the necessary equipment since I was making wine. Would have done anything to have a keggorator next to my desk like I do now.

 

[ultraplop]

It always seems that the first reaction of man's wife when he begins home brewing is to remark about how they are turning into an alcoholic.

When my wife asks "Your drinking again!? Didn't you drink last night?" I say "Well yes, but I have to see how the conditioning of my beer is coming along."

Mmm yes, this stout is coming along nicely! Now let me check that pale ale...

I mean what good brewer doesn't check the progress of thier beer?

 

[UncleDave]

Usually have 1-2 12oz beers 5 days a week. Three is about my comfortable limit. Once in a while I'll drink more on the weekends if I'm out with friends or at a party, but overindulging affects me much more than it used to. I went to a party last weekend and had 8 or 9 beers during the night and woke up the next morning with quite the hangover.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Some times I run the taps with a 4 oz sampler. With two barley wines, a huge farmerhouse ale and kegged wine in the cabinet, anything else would be dangerous.

NY was an 18 state when I was in college and there was a bar on campus. I remember a few 10 cent beer nights. Most of them, I don't remember.

Yes, I'm old enough to remember 10 cent beers.

They still happen. You just have to grow a pair of tits and be able to drink domestic. There are still lots of coin beer nites (aka date rape nites) here in OKC for the wimminz.

 

[metaltim]

i'm officially an eveyday beer drinker now. as with most, for M-Th, i have 1 at dinner, sometimes 2, rarely 3. F-Sat can depend on if grilling or a party with friends, but i'd say an average of 5-7 for fri and sat.. 4-6 on sunday.

 

[dontman]

They still happen. You just have to grow a pair of tits and be able to drink domestic. There are still lots of coin beer nites (aka date rape nites) here in OKC for the wimminz.

LOL Wasn't there a commercial where 3 guys dressed up like women for Ladies Night?

Ga was 18 when I moved there for college and then when I turned 19 it moved to 19 and then when I turned 21 it changed to 21 along with everyone else.

The backlash on the drinking age did not fully affect the campus until I was a senior and they started eliminating most of the school sponsored events. But seriously, before that, our school subsidized all of the expense for campus club parties and half of the expense for I think it was 2 parties each year at each fraternity. Plus they had a couple campus wide parties along with a free concert. Awesome stuff - I remember the Bangles and Little River Band. Yea, major suck.

But we also had Sting, and Elvis Costello, and REM a bunch of times, and Kansas, and Jimmy Buffet a couple times, and of course, America. Or should America be in the major suck category?

 

[FlashRedGLS18T]

1 per night, 4-5 nights a week.

And on special occasions I'll drink maybe 3. I'll do this maybe once a year.

 

[android]

really depends for me, but on average, i'll drink 4 or so glasses of homebrew out of my small german beer glass... then i might have a few non-homebrew crap beers, or not. weekend nights are pretty wide open on the taps though. i have a buddy who usually stops by after work around 10pm to talk beer and sample the latest offerings. recently, my 'light' beer consumption has gone way down though as after 3 or so glasses of HB i'm ready to eat dinner and chill/hit the sack, not drink more.

 

[dasein668]

Geez, am I the only person on here who doesn't get boatloads of cr*p from my wife about brewing? She doesn't like alot of the beers (read: hoppy) that I brew, but she does like a porter or stout or belgian. She doesn't drink that much, but she is extremely supportive of my brewing. She encouraged me to make a nice kegerator for upstairs. She asked why I didn't have a nitrogen dispense for stouts--and bought one. She never complains about me taking 5 hours out of a day to brew.

Is there alot of hyperbole about "SWMBOs" here or is my experience really out of the ordinary?

 

[bernerbrau]

Geez, am I the only person on here who doesn't get boatloads of cr*p from my wife about brewing? She doesn't like alot of the beers (read: hoppy) that I brew, but she does like a porter or stout or belgian. She doesn't drink that much, but she is extremely supportive of my brewing. She encouraged me to make a nice kegerator for upstairs. She asked why I didn't have a nitrogen dispense for stouts--and bought one. She never complains about me taking 5 hours out of a day to brew.

Is there alot of hyperbole about "SWMBOs" here or is my experience really out of the ordinary?

It's about half and half. Some of our wives barely tolerate our obsession.

 

[Doc Robinson]

Geez, am I the only person on here who doesn't get boatloads of cr*p from my wife about brewing? She doesn't like alot of the beers (read: hoppy) that I brew, but she does like a porter or stout or belgian. She doesn't drink that much, but she is extremely supportive of my brewing. She encouraged me to make a nice kegerator for upstairs. She asked why I didn't have a nitrogen dispense for stouts--and bought one. She never complains about me taking 5 hours out of a day to brew.

Is there alot of hyperbole about "SWMBOs" here or is my experience really out of the ordinary?

Naw dude. My wife is cool as **** too.

 

[springer]

Geez, am I the only person on here who doesn't get boatloads of cr*p from my wife about brewing? She doesn't like alot of the beers (read: hoppy) that I brew, but she does like a porter or stout or belgian. She doesn't drink that much, but she is extremely supportive of my brewing. She encouraged me to make a nice kegerator for upstairs. She asked why I didn't have a nitrogen dispense for stouts--and bought one. She never complains about me taking 5 hours out of a day to brew.

Is there alot of hyperbole about "SWMBOs" here or is my experience really out of the ordinary?

My wife is the same. Even though I have an upright freezer that holds three kegs and the chest kegerator that also has three she bought me a ready built one that will hold two corny's. When we were at the store she was like "Ohhh this one is portable we can take it with us camping to parties and drink real beer" I made the right choice 28 years ago .

oh and I will have 2-3 pints a night. I have always had a few beers after work since I was in my teens .

 

[Newbeerguy]

I would have to say I am 1 to 2 per weeknight and about 6 on the weekends. My normal routine is a homebrew with dinner, then another while watching TV. On Fridays I buy a sixer of some different micro and that usually last me until Sunday. Then on Sunday its normally just 1 while watching football.

 

[samc]

My wife is fine with brewing. She usually buys me a bottle of single malt scotch for my birthday and then winds up drinking 90% of it. Must be the kids driving her to drink!

 

[jbambuti]

My wife has no issues with my brewing and does not worry about what I drink. I generally am economical about my brewing and my equipment (plastic buckets for primaries), but when I say that I need something, she tells me to go ahead and get it, because it will get good use. Her perspective is that it takes so much careful time and energy to brew good beer, she does not want me to lose batches or craft poor beer.

If there are too many bottles lining up on the dishwasher, she asks me to take them to the basement, or will actually even do it herself. Never hassles me about how much I consume. Guess I made the right choice, too. Of course, the fact that I do most of the shopping and cook most of the meals doesn't hurt, either.

 

[TexLaw]

Geez, am I the only person on here who doesn't get boatloads of cr*p from my wife about brewing?

Not at all. SWMBO is quite happy with me brewing and always has been. Like yours, she's not so much into the hops, but she loves the porters and stouts, so I make sure she has enough on hand.


TL

 

[morebeer]

I usually have 1 or 2 every weeknight (more if friends come over). But on the weekends it could easily be 12 a day, but whose counting. My wife is pretty much used to it and doesn't care, she knew I was like this before we got married.

 

[HempelNet]

I tend to be on the 1 - 3 pints weekdays and a slight to drastic increase on the weekends. My SWMBO likes to drink with me so I guess you can say I never need to make born-on dates for me beers. Although the ongoing joke around my house is a 3 beer limit, you can drink as many as you wish just when asked you are always on your third. You know thinking about it now it seems much funnier after a few beers, that's strange...

 

[farmbrewernw]

Really alcoholism has little to do with how much you drink, although drinking excessively is not good either, but more with how you react to alcohol and how you treat it. I have 1 of 2 a night but if I was to hide those 1 or 2 and was addicted to having those beers I just may be an alcoholic.

 

[jpb5151]

I can do only 1-2 liters for the weekend, nothing during the week (too busy).