Periods of abstinence

[beersk]

Or go a different direction and put up a batch of mead. I’ve done that in the past when I felt less like brewing. Less time and work than a beer brew day and that will take you down a different rabbit hole and get you thinking about different things.

I've thought about this. I have a friend who is a bee keeper, said he has buckets and buckets of honey, some of which I could have. Mead is a whole different animal for sure. I've made it before, some good some not as good. But then I'd have to bottle it as I've kegged mead before and it never got drank and tied up a keg for way too long. But I like you're thinking. Kombucha is another option.


I really didn't mean to hijack the thread here. Was just adding my own comments...

 

[grampamark]

According to your calculations, I'm gonna live forever.

I recall seeing an article which cited a study claiming that every beer (or alcohol-equivalent drink) shortened one’s life by something like 12 minutes. Using that metric, and considering the amount of beer I’ve consumed over the past 50+ years, I would have died sometime around 1893.

 

[beersk]

I recall seeing an article which cited a study claiming that every beer (or alcohol-equivalent drink) shortened one’s life by something like 12 minutes. Using that metric, and considering the amount of beer I’ve consumed over the past 50+ years, I would have died sometime around 1893.

Yeah, that's just plain alarmist BS.

 

[grampamark]

Yeah, that's just plain alarmist BS.

Hey, this is America. Fear sells.

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

I always drank pretty much 3-6 pints a night, some week-end night, a few extas, but eventually my weight crept up to 290, I'm 6'4". I had to go to zero alcohol for a while last fall when I had neck issues and was taking pain meds... during those three weeks, I lost 14 lbs. A light bulb went on, so I kept at it for 6 weeks (until my birthday), and I was down 30 lbs at that time. So I went to a Fri + Sat only model (no real limits) and I eventually reached 248 lbs (42 lbs lost). I've been in the low 250's for a while I've stuck with the same model - exceptions made for travel or out of town.

MC

 

[Alex4mula]

Last year I brewed 200 gals and I probably drank half of that. I could drink 3-4 pints daily easily. I gain a LOT of weight :-( This year I’m trying to drink only Thursday to Saturday. So yes I’m trying some abstinence. :-/

 

[oakbarn]

Abstinence is for birth control! Drinking beer or otherwise. I do neither Abstinence since I am past that! (born in the 40s)

 

[Dancy]

I‘m 70. I see my doc twice a year and have blood work done both times. The doc says my BP, blood chemistry, weight, etc., is fine for someone my age and that I should just keep doing whatever I’ve been doing. So, I have my two, sometimes three, beers a day because-doctor’s orders.

Of course some people have good health in spite of certain lifestyle behaviors thanks to genetic and (I’m sure) other factors we don’t even know about. My family has a serious history of heart disease due in large part to genetics and my own is well documented. My cardiologist would prefer I not drink at all. It may come to that and I’m okay with it. But not yet.

 

[Kent88]

Having a kid made me cut way back on drinking. Since around March 2020 I cut back even more, except for a month where I wanted to finish a keg.

Mini-me is starting school this fall. I should be able to brew regularly again soon.

 

[SMD]

It was the same for us. Before kids: we drank our way through Colorado on our honeymoon and stopped at the GABF in Denver. After kids: we didn’t drink for years. Only the past year or so have we started drinking again. So about a 7 year break from booze & brewing.