I'm drunk!

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

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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

There's a couple Texas breweries that do really good ones but they're by no means easy to find on tap... Austin Beerworks' Einhorn is a 3% Berliner Weisse sour and Jester King's Petit Prince is 2.9% Belgian Saison. And of course you can always get a Radler, but it begs for a whiskey chaser.

I was gonna say move to Utah if you want 3.2% beers, but apparently their laws have changed recently?

low % beer = more calories & more $$ for same buzz vs higher %. If something is under 5% I have a hard time choosing it.

hahaha, I want *tasty* low-ABV beers, if I want low-ABV in Texas I can always get a Lone Star Light or a Michelob Ultra.

ballygowan

Give me at least 5% or give me death by teetotaling.

I want to be fast tracked to divine drunkeness without feeling like I've just put on a few stones of weight and needing to piss every minute. But how do i achieve this with Carling black label?

Vodka and Clausthaler

black bush no ice

i sort of understand why people get drunk now, tt thinks i should become an alcoholic for the sake of my writing, i know she's joking but i do get it

ELO - Don't Bring Me Down started the 1980s

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Hey guys

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NV you have to balance remaining drunk with remaining alive, you have achieved such a grand state

larkin made 63 promise me that at least

I packed a lot into only 6 or 7 hours today so I'm gonna feel fine in the morning but I'm really comfortably bombed and sinking into the bed right now

And it wasn't the booze tbf so much as a first time in a long time tea time spliff that slayed me

haha idk what a spliff would do to me rn but it is probably academic

Buk got to 74 supping every day. Bunuel 83 and he'd down gallons* of wine. Alcoholism can be good.

*probably more like a bottle a day but whatever!

I'm "sober" 5 or 6 days of most weeks at the moment tbh

i'm functional every day, but also occasionally pissed!

the best bits of bunuel's autobiography by which point he knew he was done concern his ideal martini

Alfred has discussed Luis's martini recipe before now I seem to recall

I've got his essays/stories but not the autobiography