Do you drink?

[Shemeska]

Typed while drinking a double espresso

I have not had a drop since July 2000. I detest the taste of alcohol. My vice is Diet Dr. Pepper.

While the diabetic angle keeps me from drinking much (A1C around 6.2), caffeine is my vice in a major way.

When I'm running a game I'll go through 4 liters of diet mountain dew code red over the course of the afternoon/evening. And then there's the amount of espresso I drink, which has built up a rather ... high... tolerance for my drug of choice that would make a mormon scream I'm sure. *chuckle*

I'm grumpy without my caffeine fix each day, but damn do I enjoy that fix.

 

[MonkeyDragon]

I drink very rarely. I've never been drunk and don't plan to be. I find the notion of forcibly altering my body chemistry unsettling, and I don't need to be drunk to have a good time and be silly.

However, I would probably drink a little more except for two things. One, I don't like the taste of most alcohol. It's just too strong for me, and I don't like sour or bitter tastes. I hate even the smell of beer. The other is drinking is terribly expensive. I'm not going to spend 6 bucks on a cocktail (amaretto sour is the only thing I really love) when I could drink water for free then get a dessert. So I'll get a drink when out to dinner with my family on a special occasion (and someone else's wallet) but I don't find it worth it to buy something to drink and possibly not like it anyway.

 

[Nellisir]

I drink socially, or at mealtimes. I like having a little buzz, but drink rarely enough that it doesn't take more than a glass of wine to do it. After two drinks, my wife usually starts laughing at me -- she's allergic to alcohol, and therefore always the designated driver.

I'm pretty much straight wine now, occasionally cider or a beer. I've found a few beers I like, but can't ever remember the brands. :-/

Cheers
Nell.

 

[loki44]

I like to drink. I'm American but I grew up around realtives from the "old country" (Lithuania) who had very different attitudes about drinking than most of my friends' families. For the most part Europeans just seem to be much more relaxed about drinking, less uptight. It's more natural so, while they might consume alcohol on a fairly regular basis it is done with a healthier attitude that leads to less aberrant behavior.

 

[Valgard]

I'm a winemaker so drinking is something of a daily routine. Most of the friends I game with drink as well, we often have cocktail evenings and sessions when we play boardgames or poker. Strangely we never drink whilst roleplaying, though I have been known to have a quick drink before I DM, I find it makes me less self-conscious when playing NPC's.

 

[Templetroll]

I worked in politics for 13 years, at the end of which time I was basically an alcoholic. To my surprise, I have been steadily cutting back every year without joining a twelve-step program or anything. I now drink about three times a week, down from four about a year ago. I think between about 1998 and 2000, I was drunk almost constantly.

EDIT: I looked into some nutritional information a few years ago and determined that I could theoretically meet nearly all my nutritional and recreational needs with Guiness and sushi.

Before the Middle Ages brewing was left to women to make since it was considered a food as well as celebration drink.

I dun know nuthin' about sushi.

Our regular group will often have a Newcastle Brown Ale before the game. I don't think anyone has had more than a second beer or a wine cooler while we played.

Now, way back when my first group would gather at my place and we gamed for the weekend we easily went through a case of Molson's Golden Ale or Moosehead. Surprisingly, the stupidest thing we ever did in a game during that timeframe we were all sober, just mind-numbingly dumb. Took us several months to get out of that <expletive deleted> maze! Our party actually survived the heat-death of the universe due to our deliberately continuing in a time trap corridor in the maze. The DM explained that heat-death thing as everything went boom and then cold while magic kept our time trapped corridor going and because of us being there our ring of djinn summoning kept that poor ol' djinni safe and BORED for all those millennium.. ia... uh, really long time. The djinn was seriously ticked when we finally summoned him.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I dun know nuthin' about sushi.

I love me some sushi.

Our regular group will often have a Newcastle Brown Ale before the game. I don't think anyone has had more than a second beer or a wine cooler while we played.

"That Newcastle Brown can sure knock ya down." Humble Pie--"30 Days in the Hole". Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I was listening to that song as I read your post.

 

[was]

On occasion.

 

[JoeBlank]

I voted the "more than most" category, but the description is not quite me. I probably have a drink or two once or twice per week, but rarely drink to intoxication. I'd say I get a buzz on maybe once or twice per month.

Of course, this weekend was one of the exceptions, celebrated my dad's birthday and the entire family was together for the first time since Christmas. Beer and margaritas while we grilled out, wine with dinner and then scotch after and I was what I refer to as "knee-walking" drunk.

Usually it is just a beer or glass of wine with dinner, maybe another after dinner or a glass of scotch.

 

[Teflon Billy]

I drink socially. Probably about once a week.

Mostly I just drink whiskey over crushed ice, but in the past my drinks have been drinks of our (meaning my peer group's) own creation...

Vodka/Fresca: ("The Bitter Pill")

Vodka/Dr. Pepper ("The Dr. Zhivago")

Vodka/Sunny D/Grape juice ("The Swampy Jawbreaker")

Spiced Rum/Coke and Lime ("Modern Grog")

Rum/Vodka/Tang/Blue Curacao ("The Punch a Cop")

Vodka/Orange Juice/Blue Curcao ("The Emerald Screwdriver")

Coffee/Tia Maria/Kahlua/Spiced Rum ("The Stars")

...and Guinness