Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - How Much Alcohol Do You Consume?

I'd say I drink 8 beers a year, or maybe 12 if someone else is buying :)

OK, so what's the secret to a nice cold beer? I've started out with a nice cold beer then two minutes later, nice warm beer, YUCK!.............Drink fast?:p

Don't keep your hand on the bottle/glass any longer than you need to. Your body heat will warm the beer. Try a Blue Moon with a slice of orange in it. Its a cloudy wheat beer with a very unique flavor (IMHO), one of my favorites.

Amen. Well, that's 3 of us so far if I counted correctly.:thumb:

Used to be 4. Things change...

I enjoy all the good things in life including wine and beer and booze. This spring I planted my own vineyard - Cabernet Sauvignon, Traminette, Chardonell. The plan is to make it all the way to the box as an alcoholic of first grade/level whatever you call it. There is an amount C2H5OH in my life to drink and I dont want to run out of it too soon:)

Anyway, it does not agree with biking and I prefer to stay out of it if I plan a longer bike ride and such. Life is not about abstinency - IMHO - but about the correct mix.

I'm from Kentucky. Around here if you put ice in your bourbon, you're a sissy!

Seriously, I do drink a few beers once in a while, but I'm pretty picky - none of that Bud Light stuff for me. But as I alluded to above, I sorta like a small glass of Jim Beam neat (for medicinal purposes, you understand).

I was in Philadelphia last year, and I saw a tee shirt with a quote from Benjamin Franklin that went:

"Beer: Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

I originally started drinking in junior high school at age 13. As I got older I was drinking more and more. Although I did sober up for about seven years in the late 80's - mid 90's, a mean spirited divorce put me back in the bottle. Up until last August I would drink a six pack every night and 750ml (roughly a fifth) of Jack Daniels every week. Never really had a hang over, either, though I would wake up less than rested.

I don't know why, but I woke up one morning last summer and said "Enough"...after nearly forty years of boozing. I have had exactly three beers since then. Funny, cause I gave up cigarettes in January 2007 the same way.


I am particularly enjoying sobriety this time around, and can't really see myself going back to drinking (or smoking)...and yes...I admit...I'm one of those obnoxious reformed smoker/alcoholics that I always promised myself I wouldn't be. I can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke and I (now) think that people look idiotic when they get drunk. I won't tell anyone not to drink, I just get annoyed by the slurred ramblings of someone who has had too much.

One last thing. On another forum someone posted one of those ubiquitous "What's on your desktop" threads and I posted this:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c282/panhead74/100_0198.jpg

Man I do kinda miss the taste of those Jack Daniels manhattans...and yes I drank them on the rocks...Scots Whisky, on the other hand was neat...always.

Wow, I've never seen a shot of Formula 409 before! You're hard core!

:)

(snif) It's nice to see a few folks like to unwind with a cold one. Makes me thirsty...

Alcohol is the reason I got back into cycling. Someone mentioned medical incarceration in an earlier comment. My case was similar. Divorce was what kicked off my 30's, and I didn't take it well. I am responsible for my decisions, and they were poor ones. Never drove while drinking, didn't have many dates, but sure did drink.

A LOT.

My epiphany came at a golf tournament - well, a drinking tournament that involved golf. One night after the Saturday 18, me and a pal went to the local (and only) bar in town and began carousing. We were on that night. People were laughing, begging for more of the crazy karaoke, the jokes were coming out as if Jerry Seinfeld were delivering them. Nothing could stop us, with the exception of eleven black holes (one shot Jaeger, one shot Rumplemintze, mix, consume) in about two hours.

I had never had a blackout like that before, where your body is still going, but all of your cognitive functions are comatose.

I woke up the next day, somehow made it through 18 more holes (I recall not a one of them), and went home. After trying to sleep for a few hours, I became sweaty and paranoid. I thought my liver was failing, my heart was racing like there was no tomorrow and it had to use up all of its remaining beats before the world ended in the morning. I debated on calling 911, and after a ten minute conversation with myself about whether I was dying or not, talked myself out of it.

I was having my first and (thank God) only panic attack.

The doc said I looked green, and with a BP of 230/120, there was every reason. At 38, doc stated that if I wanted to see my kids graduate high school, I needed to stop.

I stopped smoking, drinking, and dairy that day (for a whole year), lost 40 pounds, lowered my BP through meds (which I no longer need), and lowered my cholesterol from 312 to 201 with diet and exercise alone. I don't like pills.

I have a drink maybe once a week, but it doesn't taste the same, and the effect of drinking too many is no longer desired. Alcohol smacked me down pretty hard. It was like Satan was there, making me funny and entertaining, appealing and attractive, while at the same time killing me with the very nectar I was drinking.

Like Slackerprince, I'm fine with it if everyone else drinks, and I'm not here to rain on that parade, but for me, those days are long gone. Sobriety is a lot more fun. Without it, I would not be enjoying the bike like I am today.

I have a drink maybe once a week, but it doesn't taste the same

If alcohol stopped tasting delicious, I would stop drinking it.

I have probably 2-3 drinks 3-5 times a night. I drink good beer or red wine. That's probably the most I want to drink to not be considered a heavy drinker. I'm thin, I exercise all the time and feel pretty healthy. People say I'm European because I drink wine and walk and bike everywhere...

I also have a tall coffee to get me started every morning. Usually no more.

My friends though drink on the weekends, and will drink probably 20+ beers until they were hammered. I used to try to keep up with them, but could never fit all that beer into my stomache! Eventually I stopped going to bars with them because it was always the same bar and always boring. Also the crowd stayed the same age as my friends got older and were soon the oldest guys in the bar. Now I like to drink with them if it's relaxing and laid back. I like to conversate while drinking with a friend, not drink to escape reality or build false confidence.

I'll have no more than 5 beers with one of my friends about once a month. We'll usually drink a few, go walking for a couple miles talking. That seems to be the best time.

Still, I miss the homebrews. I made really good beer.

CliftonGK1, funny you mention homebrew. I've been saving my bottles lately to start brewing again.

As for drinking, 2-4 beers per week, (plus a margerita with my weekly Burrito dinner). I prefer Scuttlebutt, or Redhook-something. Dead Guy Ale is nice once in a while too. Right now I've got a case of Sam Adams summer beers in the garage fridge waiting for me after STP. No problems keeping it in moderation and I for sure don't mix alcohol and drugs (prescription that is.)

I've been off of caffeine for the most part for 3 years.

Funny how beer and coffee/caffeine come to the party together. When presented with a choice, I chose coffee. My excess in the beer department made even coffee taste funny (morning after). Now I'm back to enjoying the full body of a well-brewed cup of java.

much beer drink me! beer are where you?

This seems sacrilegious. That one guy was famous for turning water into wine, but his blood becomes grape juice? It's like non-fat cheese!


You do realize it's symbolic for most Christians?

You do realize it's symbolic for most Christians?

Yes, yes, crackers are the body, wine the blood, one assumes the viscera is conveniently left uneaten. I'm just sayin', if dude turns water to wine, and his blood to wine, one would think wine (not grape juice) would be appropriate. I've really never understood how teetotaling meshes with the new testament writings. But I am not a religious person, so my bewilderment is purely academic.

On an unrelated note, I have socks with the Benjamin Franklin quote mentioned above.

Don't drink anymore,don't drink any less........... Naw I had to stop drinking,I break out with the worst case of hand cuffs you've ever seen. Besides having a DMV sponsered exercise program has whipped me into shape and I get to meet the nicest people when i'm riding. Now that i'm really into bikes I don't know if I want to drive I love the freedom my bike gives me. When I tell the guy's at work what I ride and how much they are floored,and I'M THE FAT GUY.

Never touched a drop. Drunk driving is responsible for killing my late GF, I was days away from asking her to marry me.

My parents were stuck by a drunk driver, changing their and our lives forever. The line is if you drink...don't drive or ride. It's such a simple yet complicating thing. I got drunk again tonight...so I admit to drinking twice in one month. Now...I have a bachelor's pray to attend in August...after that I plan on cutting all alcohol from my diet.

Yes, yes, crackers are the body, wine the blood, one assumes the viscera is conveniently left uneaten. I'm just sayin', if dude turns water to wine, and his blood to wine, one would think wine (not grape juice) would be appropriate. I've really never understood how teetotaling meshes with the new testament writings. But I am not a religious person, so my bewilderment is purely academic.

On an unrelated note, I have socks with the Benjamin Franklin quote mentioned above.

Some Christians claim Hebrew wine wasn't fermented. I don't accept the argument myself.

As far as using wine in the sacrament, that might cause a problem for those folks who are medically unable to drink alcohol. And it runs into the problem of offering wine to minors, if children receive communion. So I think churches switching to grape juice isn't a bad idea.

Wow, I've never seen a shot of Formula 409 before! You're hard core!

:)

It's to wash away the taste of that Coors. :lol:

I thought it was pretty funny that a lot of my friends thought they needed to abstain from alcohol around me after I told them I quit drinking.
"No no. I quit drinking. That doesn't mean you have to do anything differently."

I got the same reaction after I began to lose weight. People assumed they couldn't eat junk food in front of me.

Wow, I've never seen a shot of Formula 409 before! You're hard core!

:)

Glasses of Simple Green come with little umbrellas in them.

1 or 2 drinks a week, if that. Beer or wine, usually. But many weeks nothing.