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CheersforBeers
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4:19p, 1/21/21
What is your standard rate of consumption? How many drinks do you regularly drink or average over the course of a week?

My average is probably about 6 beers a day.
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MarathonAg12
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4:39p, 1/21/21
I probably have about 9oz of bourbon a night. I usually go through one or two handles in a given week.
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Scotts Tot
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5:18p, 1/21/21
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I'm feeling a lot better about my 4-5 drinks/week.
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5:39p, 1/21/21
3 or less
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5:49p, 1/21/21
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I had been steady at 1 to 2 per day from March thru about Thanksgiving, but December had ballooned to about 4 drinks a day on average. Happy hour Manhattan, glass of wine while cooking dinner, another glass with dinner, and then either an old fashioned or a 2oz neat bourbon after dinner depending on my mood. January has been completely dry. I needed a reset.
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6:06p, 1/21/21
My drinks per day starts with a decimal. I gotta step up my game!
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Bruce Almighty
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6:23p, 1/21/21
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Around 10 drinks per week. 1 beer, a couple margaritas and the rest, wine.
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MarathonAg12
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In reply to TxSquarebody • 6:50p, 1/21/21
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My drinks per day starts with a decimal. I gotta step up my game!


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7:37p, 1/21/21
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Work week about 6 beers total, split between Friday and Saturday....max out at 5 in one night.

Vacation week, 12 to 18
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7:42p, 1/21/21
Really regretting the look this gave me after hearing all the responses but then again I guess username checks out.
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In reply to CheersforBeers • 8:09p, 1/21/21
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CheersforBeers said:
Really regretting the look this gave me after hearing all the responses but then again I guess username checks out.


Well depends on what you're drinking. If it's 3.5% beer you're not much worse than the guy drinking 3x6.5% drinks. And I don't know anyone (including myself) who drinks bourbon 1.5oz at a time.

For me, I've always looked at the question doctors ask: "do you consume 12 or more drinks a week?". I haven't been able to answer that question truthfully more times than I care to admit.

I was sober for 17 days in January but a visit to the in-laws in arizona and the mountain views + nice weather killed that pretty fast!
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In reply to dustin999 • 8:42p, 1/21/21
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Do you know any real alchy's? I know a guy (relative) who hasn't had less than a 12 pack per day of Milwaukee's Best in 10+ years. He starts the minute he wakes up. I bet his BAC hasn't dropped below 0.10 in years.

I usually have 3 or 4 a day. Start at 6pm, end at 10pm. Some weekend I have more, some weekends I have none.
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9:41p, 1/21/21
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For those of you who have several drinks a day, how much would you say you spend on alcohol a month?
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10:22p, 1/21/21
I probably average about 1 per day, but the rate is all over the place. There have been days where I had enough to kill a normal person, months when I had one beer every day at 4 like clockwork but never more, and stretches without a drink for weeks.

The last year has been weird.
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10:37p, 1/21/21
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Just depends. A lot of days, nothing. Maybe a glass of bourbon or 2. If meeting some buddies after work, 6+. On weekends if BBQing or hanging out, or in a normal year during HLSR, double digits easily, especially during cookoff.
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10:57p, 1/21/21
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Wife and I split a bottle of wine a week. Rarely we'll have 2, more often 0. Then the occasional cocktail when going out. So I'd say 2-4 drinks a week average.

Was a lot more before I started triathlon training
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In reply to Ornlu • 11:00p, 1/21/21
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I have known a few, it's pretty crazy how much some can put down. I've also seen on reddit threads where people talk about how much they drink. And I thought I had a problem lol!
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In reply to Scotts Tot • 11:19p, 1/21/21
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$50-75. But I homebrew.
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In reply to Scotts Tot • 12:41a, 1/22/21
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For those of you who have several drinks a day, how much would you say you spend on alcohol a month?

I'm probably $500+
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In reply to Scotts Tot • 9:21a, 1/22/21
enough that I have a line item for it in my budget...
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9:46a, 1/22/21
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Had a neighbor that was a legit alky. He told me so the first time I met him. He drank busch tall boys. From morning to pass out time. He sold ladies shoes in the galleria. Told me he would drink several beers before work, sneak out to his van during breaks and down more, drink one on the ride home (10 minute drive), stop and get more talls, then come back to the apartment and drink until bedtime. Nice enough guy. No chance he is still alive if he kept that up since I lived next to him.
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In reply to Milwaukees Best Light • 9:53a, 1/22/21
My best friend's X was a legit alcy. Rehab at least 20 times while they were married. Was arrested at the airport when she was being put on a plane to FL to head to rehab for getting so drunk. She'd regularly drink her boxed red wine until she passed out on the couch. Wake up around 3 AM and just keep drinking until it happened again.Had a kid and it didn't matter.

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10:10a, 1/22/21
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Forgot about another neighbor that was an alky. Different place. This was a tiny old woman. She would drink the magnums of cheap white wine until she switched to vodka. Every day. I don't know how early she started, but you would very rarely see her after 1700. She wasn't terribly nice, but kept to herself mostly. Her husband was a super nice guy and would tell me about her getting drunk and angry sometimes. She would throw his stuff all over the condo and scream at him. They had a second condo in Colorado and eventually she went there and just never came back. No chance she is alive. She barely looked alive back then.
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In reply to Milwaukees Best Light • 10:27a, 1/22/21
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Milwaukees Best Light said:
Had a neighbor that was a legit alky. He told me so the first time I met him. He drank busch tall boys. From morning to pass out time. He sold ladies shoes in the galleria. Told me he would drink several beers before work, sneak out to his van during breaks and down more, drink one on the ride home (10 minute drive), stop and get more talls, then come back to the apartment and drink until bedtime. Nice enough guy. No chance he is still alive if he kept that up since I lived next to him.


If I sold women's shoes in the Galleria, I'd be an alcoholic too.

One beer in 10 minutes really isn't that bad though.
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10:28a, 1/22/21
My MIL used to drink a bottle of Jim Beam a night. The last time she drank (roughly 20 years ago) she ended up in the hospital with her organs shutting down. She quit drinking and is signed up to do her third Ironman triathlon at age 70.
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10:31a, 1/22/21
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With 3 kids under 5, if I have more than a few drinks I start getting too sleepy to get everything done in the evenings (Especially beer and wine; Bourbon not as sleepy for me.). Maybe 2-3 times a week I'll have 1-3 drinks after they are in bed, but it's counterproductive to start before then.

Avg 6-8 drinks per week. If we have people over on the weekend, maybe 5-6 more.
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10:53a, 1/22/21
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Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having.

"Gd it, Otto, you're an alcoholic!"

"Gd it, Otto, you have lupus!"

One of those two doesn't sound right.

-Mitch Hedberg
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1:17p, 1/22/21
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This is an absolutely judgment-free zone, but alcoholism is no joke, and if anyone reading this thinks they have a problem I encourage you to look yourself in the mirror and get help if necessary.

I listened to this Basic Brewing Radio podcast where they discussed this very topic. Bold move for a show whose listeners brew for fun. I think it's worth the 30 minutes.

For the record, 2-3 standard drinks a night. I'm consistently keeping tabs so it doesn't get out of control, and every now and again I'll go completely dry for a little while to reset.

Edit late: Just realized in context with the previous post that I may have come off as anti-Mitch Hedberg, and I can assure you that I am not and was not referencing the previous post at all. I also like to throw toothpicks into the forest and yell "You're home!"
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In reply to TXAG 05 • 1:58p, 1/22/21
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TXAG 05 said:
Milwaukees Best Light said:
Had a neighbor that was a legit alky. He told me so the first time I met him. He drank busch tall boys. From morning to pass out time. He sold ladies shoes in the galleria. Told me he would drink several beers before work, sneak out to his van during breaks and down more, drink one on the ride home (10 minute drive), stop and get more talls, then come back to the apartment and drink until bedtime. Nice enough guy. No chance he is still alive if he kept that up since I lived next to him.


If I sold women's shoes in the Galleria, I'd be an alcoholic too.

One beer in 10 minutes really isn't that bad though.
Being unable to drive 10 minutes without a beer is pretty bad though.
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CDub06 said:
TXAG 05 said:
Milwaukees Best Light said:
Had a neighbor that was a legit alky. He told me so the first time I met him. He drank busch tall boys. From morning to pass out time. He sold ladies shoes in the galleria. Told me he would drink several beers before work, sneak out to his van during breaks and down more, drink one on the ride home (10 minute drive), stop and get more talls, then come back to the apartment and drink until bedtime. Nice enough guy. No chance he is still alive if he kept that up since I lived next to him.


If I sold women's shoes in the Galleria, I'd be an alcoholic too.

One beer in 10 minutes really isn't that bad though.
Being unable to drive 10 minutes without a beer is pretty bad though.


That's true. Big difference in having to have a drink that fast and just being thirsty and throwing one down.
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2:56p, 1/23/21
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4 beers or so a week. Sometimes a 3 finger pull of an Islay after a great day (or equally sh itty)

Down from 2 growlers a day in 2014.
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8:20p, 1/23/21
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I sometimes go a couple weeks without drinking. Not on purpose, just happens.

I rarely drink 6-10 drinks in a day, spread out over most of the day.

But most weeks I have about 4 drinks throughout the week.
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8:21p, 1/23/21
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think-you-drink-a-lot-this-chart-will-tell-you/%3foutputType=amp
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In reply to CheersforBeers • 8:59p, 1/23/21
I average the same but don't drink before workdays.
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10:48a, 1/24/21
During my mid 20s, I'd say 75-80% of my calories were from beer. As my social life changed from hanging out at bars/parties with friends, to after work happy hours, to just being a homebody my drinking has followed suit. Now I'd be hard pressed to tell you the last drink I had.

I've always been almost exclusively a social drinker. I get zero enjoyment out of drinking at home or by myself. I rarely drink on the road. I will have a beer/wine/old fashion with dinner if I am with a team (even get completely hammered, if that is what we are doing that night). But since I travel by myself, the idea of sitting in a hotel room/bar drinking by myself is just something I can't wrap my head around.

I never got why true binge drinking was considered a bad thing. Honestly it seemed like the most healthy use of alcohol. A sporadic indulgence of a recreational drug. I'd rather be the guy that drinks 12 drinks in one setting once in a while, than the guy that has 2 drinks every day.
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