I'm drunk!

I’d love to have the laser focus of calstars, but drinking for me is 1) not everyday anymore thank God; and 2) definitively for the erasure purposes of being very drunk when I want to be (often post here then)

I will never ‘enjoy’ a glass at dinner

That’s a lie, I’ll enjoy several. To all the moderates: I salute you!

Find drinking is a solid shield for better or worse. Any time I’ve had to go do something serious or go on a mission it’s never not been relaxed by a drink. Come to like having a stray beer in the forest or by a lake as meditation but drunken loud assholes can go fuck themselves

So that’s a long way of repeating the thread title

― El Tomboto

no, actually, by the time i wrote that i'd sobered up

another reason i don't drink terribly much i guess

My drinkitude has been about the same for at least 25 years - a modest but steady trickle all week, rather than dry weekdays and massive weekend binges. This has led (fortunately or unfortunately) to a fairly bulletproof level of tolerance. As a result, I don't think I've been drunk in many years. Pleasantly insulated after two or three drinks, yes. Warmly buzzed after three or four, definitely. Rarely if ever go past that point.

Are any ILXorz awake right now?

Yes and jealous of your current state

If you are awake, there are psychoactive substances the=at can do something about that. If you are sober, there are steps you can take.

i'm awake but that's because it's a quarter past six in the evening and i'm at work. i have had two shots of tequila tho fwiw

Sorry; I didn't account for time difference. But I HATE being at work when there's nothing to do.

I'm pretty yessed out

lads i cant remember when i was last drunk (no puns)

think i might be 'over' getting drunk idk?

big if true for irish

don't throw away your life

a good functional alcoholic doesn't need to get drunk if they are doing it properly!

i'm just having a nice Tesco brand glass of Sicilian red wine in the calm manner I always do rn ...

It's an expensive habit no matter which way you slice it. Especially since in my case it almost invariably leads to a lit cigarette, then another, and another…

couple of scoops of wine, followed by afternoon nap = the recipe for longevity.

Besides, you can take comfort in knowing that the UK isn't even in the international top 10 for alcohol consumption per capita these days:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.ALC.PCAP.LI?most_recent_value_desc=true&year_high_desc=true

Ireland is though.

I think Romania was ahead of Ireland a few years ago. A disappointing development.

Hold on to your hats though when Wee Nicola wins IndyRef2.

Kind of unrelated, but I am consistently appalled at the low alcohol content of mainstream English beers. 3.8% is just ridiculous.

I visited Brussels a few months back and went all out just to compensate. It was sublime.

they've been stealthily reducing them for years now. thank god for good old tyskie.

even uk stella has gone down to 4.5% i think. ffs.

I'm also bemused by the distinct scarcity of strong stouts, porters and the like, which are what most North Americans think of as 'English beer', at least in my experience.

in london at least there seems to be a swing towards fairly high abv - mostly due to craft beer. all the pubs near my work/home have a p wide range of higher abv beers.

offies in Afro-Caribbean areas will at least have Dragon Stout and that 8% strength(?) Guinness export stout that I think is excellent stuff.

I prefer low alcohol content beers because I can drink a lot of them. this is why I mostly drink water: I like to drink A LOT and I don't really like being drunk. in the uk I guess people take me to pubs where the """real ales""" are pretty high alcohol content because more than one is just, like, work. in bavaria now where the classic beers are also pretty low & I like it.

After a few hours in the pub i am usually pretty leathered, don't think i need to get there any quicker than i already do

I have grown to love the session ale, key to maintaining that sweet tipsy buzz

when last I was here, it turned out to be because I'd mistaken some green tea concoction for a herbal blend at approximately 11pm.. exhausted and wondering why I could not sleep. 3 stars.

yeah i like the session ales, though i find some of them a bit sweet and cloying after 2 or 3.

pleased to announce UK stella is still 4.8%. It was Budweiser that has gone down to 4.5%. yeah i know Budweiser .. but i'll drink anything and it is excellent for beef stews.

You can trick yourself into thinking it's the Czech brewery.

It's still 5% in North America btw. And 3.6% in China…

you'd need some top rate hypnosis to work that on me, Budvar is on a different level to that piss.

but piss I reluctantly imbibe when it's on offer at tescos nevertheless!

you wake with a hangover in China, better check your social credit rating?

Indeed. It comes with a smart metre.

I just started reading a Strindberg novel after lunch and thought of this thread. The introduction consists of him interviewing himself, in the course of which is this exchange:

Interviewer. [..] don't think you really think you should practice what you preach?

Author. That's impossible. It's true that you Christians should, but there's no reason why we heathens should. I once thought I could become a teetotaller, but I know I'm doomed to drink as long as I live because my forefathers were drinking ever since time began.

... which doesn't hold out much hope for the Irish and Scots tbh.

I seem to recall a scene from Georges Bernanos's Diary of a Country Priest where the doctor tells the protagonist that his problem isn't so much the alcohol that he drinks as the alcohol that was drunk for him, even before he was born.

its the vodka during pregnancy done the serious damage tbph

^^^
trad imaginary Russian tattoo that I would approve of.

Also a fan of lower abv. But I generally pace myself according to how much time I have

There's been a big uptick in the amount of non-alcoholic/low alcoholic wines and distilled spirits in the last couple of years too.

There's a lot more session beers on tap these days but they are inexplicably still around 5%, that's not session! Well maybe it is if the IPAs are all around 6-7% now. But gimme a tasty 3.2% beer so I can drink 4-5 of them in an evening.

oddly enough I am researching the topic about the low alcohol market for an exam in June so I have been reading a lot about it.

This is a good article https://www.bonappetit.com/story/big-alcohol

and also re: some above posts:

Heineken is hoping to tap into what it believes is an increasing desire among consumers for beer that will not get them drunk. The European market for zero alcohol beer grew about 5% a year from 2010 to 2015, according to research group Canadean, while the overall beer market shrank.

Rival AB InBev, which makes more than a quarter of the world's beer, is aiming to make a fifth of its beer low- or zero-alcohol by 2025. For the maker of Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona, low means an alcohol content of up to 3.5%.- business insider

I’ll do a low abv that tastes decent but if I want 0 pct I’ll just have a seltzer