It’s a very personal choice, and alcohol is ingrained into a lot of our society. Do you drink and if so how much?
Yes only one drink, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and sometimes half a glass of wine on Wednesday. So overall maybe 5-7 “units” of alcohol a week? I take months off in July and October though.
I quite like having a drink, and it’s part of food culture to me, but as others have said, don’t like being very drunk, or not often, and never go to bed with any level of inebriation because that is a migraine trigger.
Not every month but yea I like to drink and a lot
I don’t drink. I’ve tried all kinds of different alcoholic drinks over the years and they are all just so disgusting to me. Luckily my husband doesn’t drink either.
I’ll drink at get togethers, whether it’s a house party or a wedding, a pool day or a birthday. Once in a rare while my husband and I will have a couple of glasses of wine on a date, but usually it’s a group activity for me.
I see a lot of people saying they don’t like to feel out of control or that they don’t like being around drunk people. I like both! I think it’s very fun to be a little less inhibited, I think it’s fun to feel a little wobbly, I think it’s fun to get a little grabby and goofy with my husband. I also like being around drunk people! Idk, all the people in my life who drink all just get more fun to be around, not less. More likely to play a game, or do something spontaneous, or spill a secret. It’s all fun! It’s like the difference between going for a walk and going to a carnival! I guess carnivals aren’t for everyone. There have been years of my life where I couldn’t drink (medications, pregnancies, breastfeeding) and I still liked being around people who drink. I have friends who don’t drink, and they can be fun too, but idk. My buddies playing music or seeing who can cartwheel best or playing truth or dare drunk is more fun.
I tried alcohol a couple of times but the taste is just soo bad. Like I can hardly make it through 1 cup so I don’t experience the effects, so it’s aken to drinking bad tasting water for no reason.
The most I’ve ever done is a bottle of Soju, but that just made me kinda wobbly with no other fun effects.My grandfather was addicted so I don’t really wanna push my luck.
weed is fun though, I get really bad panic attacks if I eat edibles for some reason, but inhalation is fun :)
I drink beer most days, I stay away from hard alcohol, and while I would like to drink more wine, the sulfites give me headaches.
Very rarely. I’ve grown to like the taste of alcohol (not beer though) but I hate drinking culture. Especially since it is a HUGE part of my profession. Like not officially, I’m not a sommelier or anything, but my profession is obsessed with beer. And drinking.
I was locked out of a … long story short let’s call it a promotion, because I don’t go out drinking with the group every Thursday. EVERY Thursday. I went while we were in the field and I thought we all connected very well but apparently not.
4 out of 5 gatherings I’ll go and drink soda and it makes them uncomfortable. Bitches I’m a lightweight and I’m driving. They’re all driving too though :|.
Ugh I hate beer culture.
I drink. About on average, say, three “servings” (a shot, a glass of wine, or a mug of beer) per week. On special occasions I’ll drink more. I avoid being actively drunk, however, because while I enjoy the sensation of having a drink inside of me, I can’t stand the feeling of being drunk.
Personally, however, I don’t care if or how much you drink as long as it isn’t leading to destruction (yours or someone else’s). What I do care about is people moralizing. If you don’t drink, that’s fine. We can get along great. If, however, you start lecturing one of is is on the way out the door. (Same rule for vegans.)
I don’t, at all. I find the blindspot society has for alcohol to be alarming and stupid. Far too many people outright require it to enjoy themselves at an event like a wedding, will decline an invitation if its not going to be present, and somehow don’t see how that’s an addiction. There’s serious cognitive dissonance about how its somehow different than “needing” any other drug; if anything its worse, as alcohol withdrawal can actually kill you.
I never really picked up a taste for it and I’m glad for that, drunk people concern me. I’ll cook with it, but i don’t drink any beyond maybe a thimbleful to know the flavor I’m adding to a meal. Anything more than that and the only thing i can taste is straight alcohol.
I don’t drink at all. I never picked up a taste for it and I don’t want to spend my money that way. I am 62.
Perfectly valid. I teetotalled for a decade and can understand the appeal without question.
Wine! Wine is wonderful! Grapes are a special fruit that are incredibly variable. There are so many possibilities, so many different flavors and aromas. There is always something new to find in wines. Tasting wine is a literal academic discipline.
I usually have a glass or two with one meal a day some days. Wine interacts and pairs with foods, and you can even put it in the food!
I’ve grown as a person in the past few years. I’ve suffered many pints of beer trying to fit in with those around me, to not stand out. Beer is their thing, it’s not my thing. I know this now. I know myself now. I know who I am and what I like, and what I like is wine. Also I’m trans. These two things might be related.
I have the same thing happening here with baijiu and huangjiu culture. There is so much variety. Even within the broader styles (like “strong scented”) you can take five bottles from five different distillers in neighbouring villages and have five entirely different experiences. The terroir of the base starch (usually sorghum, but can be almost anything including mixed grains and even sweet potatoes or the like), the precise composition of the “qu” (hard to explain, but basically the part that causes saccharification to occur simultaneously with fermentation), and the nature of the aging process (which again, bizarrely, includes a form of terroir) leads to more diversity than seems plausible for hard liquors.
I’m currently working through this bottle:
It’s a small-distillery (let’s be honest: farmhouse distillery) rustic baijiu from Shandong made of the aforementioned sweet potato with a bit of sorghum to round out its flavour profile a bit, using a primarily wheat-based “big qu”. (Again, hard to explain. If you know what “koji” is for sake, you’ve got the idea, only it’s far, far, far, far, far more convoluted in China.) When I say “rustic” here I mean it. It compares (favourably) to some of the better moonshines I had back in the days when I would go to the USA. When you drink it there’s a pretaste that’s just a little bit sweet and fruity before the main body of it punches you in the palate for a knockout blow of fiercely terroir-driven ethanol and sweet potato. When your palate recovers there’s an interesting, pleasant nutty aftertaste that comes straight from that little bit of sorghum they add. This is a powerful little firebrand (the style is amusingly called “coal gas” in local patois: literally called this on the label!; sort of the Shandong local version of calling something “firewater” or “white lightning”) that you drink neat and chilled, ideally with spicy foods both to help counter the spice (ethanol is great for flushing capsicum from your tongue), and for the spice to help rein in that right hook the main body of the flavour brings.
(Most Chinese liquors are not “sipping” liquors. They’re meal accompaniments and you get truly rewarded if you drink them communally at meals, not alone sipping.)
Do you have a recommendation for an entry level baijiu available in the US?
That sounds lovely. I’ve never tried any Chinese liquors, but I have enjoyed sake on the occasions I’ve tried it. Its probably mostly convenience. Its much easier to find good wine bars and wineries where I tend to be.
Well as the old saying goes: if you’ve tried a Chinese liquor, you’ve tried … ah … that specific … Chinese liquor.
It’s crazy how much diversity there is here. I mean there’s 12 official styles of baijiu alone. And that doesn’t even begin to rein in the craziness of classification. Thousands of years of booze culture with a society that is VERY strict on tradition leads to fractal complexity.
(Irrelevant side note: I brought a dear friend in Canada some “Luzhou” style—more properly termed “strong scented” in modern classification, but this was from Luzhou proper—hooch. This friend, like me, has a long history of trying different liquors from different places and has an equally broad palate as a result, but by virtue of my location I have access to stuff he’s never heard of. His description of the Luzhou style stuff was “it tastes exactly like I would imagine diesel would taste like if diesel tasted really good”.)
I’m going to try some… specific… Chinese liquors some day. I always enjoy trying new things!
I drink at social events, family events, and occasionally at home with my wife. Sometimes I take a month or so off though when I feel I should.
According to my medical charts, I’m a social drinker.
Which just means I drink a glass of something like once a month.
I do not drink. It smells sour and bad to me. Intoxicated behavior really bothers me. So in sum, nope.
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I don’t. At all. I have very specific sensorial sensitivities and the way I taste things makes it so that pretty much all alcohol tastes the same. I feel like my taste buds somehow like individualizes the alcohol and that’s all I taste. It’s weird.
But also, and I guess that’s the main thing, I have a traumatic history of alcohol. An abusive parent. I almost lost someone who I was very close with due to how much they drank one night and had to go to a hospital after they fell in a coma because of it. I’ve been around too many drunk people in my life.
Alcohol is expensive, it’s literally poison, and it makes people act in a way that I find very unpredictable and scary. I’ve been harassed, threatened, borderline assaulted, touched in inappropriate ways, and so on by way too many drunk people. I don’t ever want to do that to someone.
I see alcohol as the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. I genuinely believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that our cultures would be far better without it.
I think I’m quite judgmental on this issue. I recognize that, but I genuinely don’t understand the people who feel the need to have alcohol and to get drunk to have fun. I don’t understand the point of going somewhere and just drinking. I don’t understand that. I really don’t.
Like, I’m going to some kind of like party organized by friends or whatever and I’m like cool we’re gonna get there, we’re gonna get to sit around, chat, talk about stuff, play around, and just have fun and when I get there I realize oh, it’s just an excuse to get drunk with loud ass music, again.
I’ve been the shepherd puppy for parties in my home organized by someone I live with acouple of times and that was already too many times. It’s obnoxious being the only non-drunk person at a party. You feel like you need to babysit everyone because you don’t want them to damage your apartment, which has happened! I have probably irreparable damage in a part of my apartment. That’s probably going to cost me a lot the day I move out of it.
I’ve had to kick someone out of my home because the dude was just too drunk, kept sexually harassing people. Intimated me. Said fucked up shit about my then partner to my face. And was like on the verge of like sexually assaulting someone in my home. The victim who was also too drunk out of their mind to even realizing what was happening and even defended him. People treated me like I was crashing the party. Fucking hell. I don’t want to ever leave that again.
Fuck alcohol. It’s so fucking weird that we have normalized microdosing poison just for the hell of it.
