If you are considering giving up alcohol, I would encourage you to watch this. Not preachy, but just sobering from the facts.
I've never been a big drinker, but it has always impacted my mood the next day negatively, so I would go in these months-long alcohol "pauses". I finally realized why call it a pause, and just stop all together. The 30 minute buzz is not worth it for me personally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS1pkKpILY