I've been avoiding alcohol pretty much my entire adult life, as I can easily become addicted to things. But I can see now how it's beneficial. I've been drinking a 300ml bottle of Budweiser whilst watching the football and it is relaxing and I know it's not doing me any damage. It's probably beneficial. Glass of wine a day and all that.

Oh, there's flavour.  It's like someone soaked a jay cloth, let it go sour, wrung it out and passed it through a Soda-Stream.

Leffe yum

Well, in terms of hates, Foster's tastes so soapy I find it undrinkable. I prefer Bud to Stella.

I dont mind Fosters, nor Carlsberg.

Fucking love me Export/Oranjeboom though.

Tempy wrote:

A pint of anything is too much I find.

lol ur a girl m8 ya cant keep up lol BANTER GRRR FOOTBALL HAHA TITS!

Dark Soldier wrote:

...a tramps piss that's been run through a corpse...

That was one helluva day.

Point me towards your filthy Belgium ales

My favourite Belgian: brewed three times I believe, thus the name. Tastes like heaven, and the foam adds another dimension.

I'm gonna give this non drinking a go. I'm still hungover from saturday night and the 2 or 3 beers about 3-4 times a week has given me a wee pot belly. Sexy.

Wish me luck.

Stubbies don't count as a full can, bub.

Kow wrote:

I've cut down from about 20 cans in a night to 2 or 3 bottles of Chimay or something similar. I do have nights off though when I go a bit mental.

Mmm, Chimay, was drinking the Triple the other night, gorgeous stuff.

revelthedog wrote:

Couldn't go anywhere social without having a drink. In fact she would be an absolute bitch if we went somewhere and she wasn't allowed a drink, because she considered it being social and said because I didn't mind, I should have the decency to be the designated driver. when we went to her parents her mother was just as bad.   And she was a moody, aggressive shit when she had too many - which was usually after 3 glasses.  was it alcoholism? Dunno, but it wasn't normal.

That actually sounds remarkably like me in some ways.  I find it relatively unusual; not hard, not too difficult, but just "wrong;" to go out for a nice dinner and not have a beer or glass of wine with it.  And I'm not talking about even beautifully matching the perfect wine to a course, I mean just having something alcoholic.  I could easily not do it, it just seems like the incorrect choice, which is an odd feeling.

Likewise, I find myself very frequently saying to my wife "do you mind driving back if I have a beer?" whenever we end up eating out.  She barely drinks so it's not strictly a problem, it's just the assumption that it's alright isn't right.  

The moody, aggressive bit however seems to disappointingly match me once I've had too many, and it's that in particular I'd like to cut out.

Dark Soldier wrote:

I drink far, far, far too much. I may join Elm on this crusade.

Do it!  Actually, it was some of your posts that made me think about this a bit more.  Not that you're often obviously posting with a hangover, or complaining about it or anything;  but when I spotted in the "what was the last thing you bought thread" that you were probably buying beer/cider about as regularly as I did back home it made me think about it.

I'm surprised how many people have popped out to say that habitual drinking had become a thing for them.  Glad I'm not entirely alone.  I'm not sure what to replace it with, although I have just gone for a nice early morning jog which I couldn't have done if I had 4 bottles of Sapporo last night rather than throwing it away.  If I can replace it with exercise I'll be doing pretty well...!  The fact I haven't been able to exercise properly since my shoulder op last summer means I really need to crack back into it.

I can tell it's certainly time to do something, as my other half initially didn't believe I had chucked the Sapporo away and assumed I had just drunk it and chucked the bottles away.