Do you drink a lot? How much do you drink?

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by Dion

Mormons don't drink as it is part of the tenents of their beliefs

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/wo...isdom?lang=eng

Pretty much every major religion doesn't believe in drinking.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

Pretty much every major religion doesn't believe in drinking.

Not true. Judaism makes it part of several religious ceremonies.

[ResAlien]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

Pretty much every major religion doesn't believe in drinking.

Originally Posted by blankall

Not true. Judaism makes it part of several religious ceremonies.

Christianity's pretty cool with it too what with communion and all. I think calgaryblood just wanted to take a shot at Dion . Muslims and Mormons they're the teetotaler champs.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Christianity's pretty cool with it too what with communion and all. I think calgaryblood just wanted to take a shot at Dion . Muslims and Mormons they're the teetotaler champs.

Why would CB mock me??? Are you suggesting he's a Mormon?

They use grape juice during communion.

[Magnum PEI]

I almost never drink now, even though I'm still in my partying years. Mostly for health reasons. Once in a blue moon I'll have a sixer or a few pints at the bar if some high school friends are in town. I regret not trying the "dozen challenge" at the Dome.

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Christianity's pretty cool with it too what with communion and all. I think calgaryblood just wanted to take a shot at Dion . Muslims and Mormons they're the teetotaler champs.

[driveway]

I'm hungover right now.

I drink every day, at least two or three beers/glasses of wine/spirits.

Weekends I'll drink at least two bottles of wine, if I'm out with my friends it's more like we're drinking a case of wine.

[Cheese]

Never was a big drinker, thanks in part to both of my parents being alcoholics and my sister following their path.
I never liked beer either so that helped, but I have always loved whiskey..all whiskeys. I normally had two or three shots a week and that's it....until Korea.
It has been an education in drinking here..the tiniest of Korean women can drink the largest American under the table, and still go to sing Karaoke and laugh at your silly slobbering face while doing it. Business has as part of its core values, the need to get totally #### faced on Soju...in a variety of games that force you to drink in excess. I give it the old braveheart routine, and due to my ability to handle hard drinks pretty well, have managed to stay with my colleagues for a few hours...at least through first round. The problem is they usually go three rounds at separate establishments. It is a lesson hard learned, and one you need to consider deeply and carefully after being poured into a taxi at 3am somewhere in a city of 13 million and not remembering anything but the silly grins on my colleagues faces and the fact it's all done in a language you have little grasp of. Watch Anthony Bourdains episode in Seoul for prime example.
I have now learned to say anio anio...no no..or #### no.
The hilarious thing here is hospitals will put you on IV drip for $25 to help sober your ass up before work, and companies like Samsung have sleeping rooms equipped with staff that will hook you up to these IVs so you can function for the next 14 hour shift. Then they go out and do it all over again. It's cheap as hell, about $1.50 for a bottle of Soju....and it kicks like a mule with a bad temper.
More alcoholics here than anywhere else...and they are ####ing good at it.
Then you go to Japan and learn a completely different way to get polluted...(sigh)..oh..I'm 60

[OMG!WTF!]

I was surprised to learn hutterites drink fairly regularly. I guess it's the German influence maybe. But they were my biggest customers in the beer business. And one strange day I ended up at their giant farm on the way to drumheller. Not only do they like beer, they make their own rhubarb wine. It's a bit like prison hootch. No French oak barrels for these guys. Just a gymnasium full of rhubarb juice filled garbage bags...aging...a sommelier's worst nightmare. The mantra at this colony was, if you can't buy it at Costco, you'd better be able to make it yourself. And you definitely can't buy that stuff at Costco. I do have some of the '14 vintage if anyone wants. I think it is still fermenting a bit because, as per instructions, I have to uncap the bottles every once and a while...burp them a little. Essentially they are rhubarb bombs. Or champagne. Hard to tell the difference some times.

I've been in Kelowna all summer. If anyone even mentions wine now I start drooling. When I'm thirsty after an hour of basketball or something, I just want a juicy red. I used to laugh at descriptions of "quaffable patio wine", "summer sippers", "easily downable". Now I get it. If you've quaffed, sipped, and downed your way to a job writing on the backs of wine bottles, you just want someone to join you. Someone should start a wine thread.

I now have five cases of Okanagan wine...the best of the best, three thousand cans of my own unsold disaster beer, and a connection to essentially an unlimited supply of rhubarb white lightning. I don't really know how this is going to turn out. Apocalypticly speaking I'm gold.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

I was surprised to learn hutterites drink fairly regularly. I guess it's the German influence maybe. But they were my biggest customers in the beer business. And one strange day I ended up at their giant farm on the way to drumheller. Not only do they like beer, they make their own rhubarb wine. It's a bit like prison hootch. No French oak barrels for these guys. Just a gymnasium full of rhubarb juice filled garbage bags...aging...a sommelier's worst nightmare. The mantra at this colony was, if you can't buy it at Costco, you'd better be able to make it yourself. And you definitely can't buy that stuff at Costco. I do have some of the '14 vintage if anyone wants. I think it is still fermenting a bit because, as per instructions, I have to uncap the bottles every once and a while...burp them a little. Essentially they are rhubarb bombs. Or champagne. Hard to tell the difference some times.

I've been in Kelowna all summer. If anyone even mentions wine now I start drooling. When I'm thirsty after an hour of basketball or something, I just want a juicy red. I used to laugh at descriptions of "quaffable patio wine", "summer sippers", "easily downable". Now I get it. If you've quaffed, sipped, and downed your way to a job writing on the backs of wine bottles, you just want someone to join you. Someone should start a wine thread.

I now have five cases of Okanagan wine...the best of the best, three thousand cans of my own unsold disaster beer, and a connection to essentially an unlimited supply of rhubarb white lightning. I don't really know how this is going to turn out. Apocalypticly speaking I'm gold.

I'd join you for the wine but take a pass on the rhubarb absinthe.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

What's wrong with drinking just to get drunk? It's... alcoholism?

I get it if you do it once in a while but if you don't enjoy the drink, but rather want to be wasted, that's probably not the most healthy thing in the world. I'm not judging though.

Yeah I don't get that either. Obviously I like beer, but if I'm drinking something not trying to get a buzz but just specifically for taste, I'm probably not going to drink a beer, or anything alcoholic for that matter.

If I'm drinking alcohol watching the game, doesn't mean I'm trying to get all banged up, but I'm doing it specifically to get a buzz for sure. Why else would you drink alcohol? That's the whole point.

EDIT: Think I quoted the wrong post. Depends on your self-control I guess, but for myself anyway, I'm defending the drinking specifically for a buzz idea. I just don't get why someone would reach for an alcoholic beverage if they have no desire to get a buzz and are only doing it because they're thirsty.

[skudr248]

I definitely had more than 10 last night for my buddies birthday. Whew. This hangover

[Erick Estrada]

I get beer as an alcoholic beverage that you can have while relaxing, doing some work around the house, or sitting around a camp fire etc, but I never could understand drinking beer to get drunk. Too much volume for too little buzz.

[Coach]

I tend not to drink much unless I'm planning to get silly with friends. I don't really have a casual beer on my own. Although I do that with weed, so there's that.

[Makarov]

I drink a lot but I'm Russian. Drinking is a cultural heirloom.

I like to drink a bottle of wine maybe three or four nights a week.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Makarov

I drink a lot but I'm Russian. Drinking is a cultural heirloom.

I like to drink a bottle of wine maybe three or four nights a week.

Nasdarovya!

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I get beer as an alcoholic beverage that you can have while relaxing, doing some work around the house, or sitting around a camp fire etc, but I never could understand drinking beer to get drunk. Too much volume for too little buzz.

The idea is to maintain a nice even buzz.

I probably drink a couple times a week. One will involve around 4 casual drinks with friends. The other will involve 7-12. Really trying to cut down on the bender nights. The trick is to avoid hard alcohol and cut the night off at 1:00am.

I work out pretty hard 3-4 times a week and am somewhat aware of what I eat. That keeps me in really good shape at 35. Might be the best shape of my life actually.

[Ashartus]

Wasn't much of a drinker when I was young, but now with kids I often seem to need a couple of drinks after I get them to bed.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Grey Goose & Water.....good.

Flat spins.. when the goose hits the water

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

EDIT: Think I quoted the wrong post. Depends on your self-control I guess, but for myself anyway, I'm defending the drinking specifically for a buzz idea. I just don't get why someone would reach for an alcoholic beverage if they have no desire to get a buzz and are only doing it because they're thirsty.

Damn, apparently we just speak different languages because I actually enjoy good beer, good scotch, good whiskey, good rum and good cocktails. If I'm drinking something it's because I like it. Frankly I can't think of anything I'd rather have with a good meal than a good beer. Does your theory also apply to wine? Because I can't imagine why anyone would drink wine solely for a buzz.