Have your alcohol drinking habits changed over the years?

Aunt Bea said:
Now, I would consider it for medical use as opposed to recreational use.
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I sometimes take MJ gummies for pain or as a sleep aid. Won't smoke or vape.
Teacher Terry said:
Recently studies are coming out linking it to heart problems.
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Aack! I hadn't heard that but checked it out on duck-duck-go and see you're right. Thanks for the head's up.
 

Twostep said:
Two questions
A) How is Ron doing?
B) Would you be so kind to share a favorite concoction or two?
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Thanks for asking @Twostep. He’s recovering well, if very impatiently. 😉 We go back to his surgeon next week where he will hopefully be cleared to begin putting weight on his foot, opening up whole new worlds to him!!

Ron’s favorite of my mixology experiments is what he’s named The Special. I have no idea why. 🤷‍♀️

Mix equal parts (couple ounces +/- each) Ole Smokey Salted Caramel Whiskey and Jack or other decent whiskey
Rocks glass with one extra large ice cube (1 1/2” or 2” square)
Very very thinly slice a couple slices orange and lay them on top of the large ice cube
Slowly pour the mixture over the top of the ice and orange, allowing the liquor to absorb the orange essence.
Sip slowly, preferably in front of a flickering fire with a favorite fragrant cigar 😉

If you tell me your favorite spirits, I’ll tell you the drinks I’ve made up for them.
 

Ronni said:
Thanks for asking @Twostep. He’s recovering well, if very impatiently. 😉 We go back to his surgeon next week where he will hopefully be cleared to begin putting weight on his foot, opening up whole new worlds to him!!

Ron’s favorite of my mixology experiments is what he’s named The Special. I have no idea why. 🤷‍♀️

Mix equal parts (couple ounces +/- each) Ole Smokey Salted Caramel Whiskey and Jack or other decent whiskey
Rocks glass with one extra large ice cube (1 1/2” or 2” square)
Very very thinly slice a couple slices orange and lay them on top of the large ice cube
Slowly pour the mixture over the top of the ice and orange, allowing the liquor to absorb the orange essence.
Sip slowly, preferably in front of a flickering fire with a favorite fragrant cigar 😉

If you tell me your favorite spirits, I’ll tell you the drinks I’ve made up for them.
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Thank you! I can do the fire but no cigar.
Calvados and Crown Black.
I will share with SO who is the keeper of "the good stuff" as Della said in Silverado.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Yes, the younger me (20's & 30's) used to be a social drinker when my friends and I would go out to the clubs. I stopped drinking alcohol when I was in my early 40's.
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That was me too, fresh out of college, a job that paid well and too often a very expensive headache. Having quit nicotine in my early twenties I knew that breaking an addiction was do-able, so I quit alcohol.
 
astralcat said:
I don’t like the taste of alcohol so I don’t drink. I don’t smoke and I have never used any recreational drugs either despite urgings from friends to try.
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Not all alcoholic drinks taste the same. There are plenty that I don't like the taste of, but there are others that I do like.
Have my drinking habits changed? Yes, I'm much more picky when it comes to what I buy / drink. As my daughter puts it, life is too short to drink cheap wine.
 
I see it as three phases in my life:
1. my 20s - too much drinking, mostly linked to after-work drinks or the live poetry/performance scene. This culminated in abuse and assault and had to stop
2. my 40s - with people in the Campaign for Real Ale, i.e. an excuse for sitting in the pub and drinking beer. Really ended shortly after I moved to Birmingham age 50.
3. present day - sometimes (once a week or so), go to a pub by myself, and either have lunch or just have one or two beers, sit and read, then go home, either walk or by bus. This is likely to be somewhere comfortable with craft beers. There are three pubs in the village and my priority order of them isn't the same as most people's - I actually like the most restaurant-like one because there are secluded corners to sit and be out of the way.
I've never drunk wine much and avoid whisky, vodka, etc.
 
Lizzie00 said:
The best thing about alcohol in the olden days was how GREAT i danced after a couple of drinks….LOL
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One of the all time great Rock and Roll singers, Ronnie Hawkins from Arkansas, used to tell the crowds at his events...."it's Saturday night, get drunk and BE SOMEBODY! ". He was the guy who invented the on stage move that was later known as "the moon walk " except Hawkins called it " The Camel Walk " Much later Michael Jackson did it in a video. Hawkins came to Toronto in 1958, with his good friend Levon helm, who was a drummer. Hawkins stayed in Canada for the rest of his life, and he was named an "Honourary Canadian Citizen" by our Government, for his massive contributions to the Canadian music scene, and his support of many of our own musicians. He died last year.

Ronnie Hawkin's back up band, the Hawks, eventually moved on to become Bob Dylan's back up musicians, and later on, they became The Band. Four of the five members of The Band were Canadians, the lone American was Levon Helm. I all ways found it ironic that The Band was revered as being "American country rock musicians" when the members were all most all Canadians, by birth. JIM.
 
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When I was 14, 15 and 16, up to age 18, my friends and I got phony IDs and "went out drinking' on the weekends. After that crazy period I got married, had kids, had jobs, only drank once in awhile. But during the pandemic I found myself drinking 3 or 4 times a week, and still am. Either Jack Daniels, or vodka with juice, or red wine. I'd probably be healthier without it but don't want to stop. The good thing, though, is that after 2 drinks--once in awhile 3-- I'm done, already drunk enough.
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
Does chocolate vodka actually exist? Where does one find this manna from heaven?? Hurry and respond, I can't wait.
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I am not sure about chocolate flavored Vodka, but up here in Ontario, we have a distillery that makes a Butter Tart flavored Moon Shine that is 40 percent . They also make a Garlic Flavored Vodka. Their Moon Shine flavors run the gamut, from Blue Berrie, to Strawberry, to Water Melon . The company is called Top Shelf Distillery, and they are located in the historic town of Perth, Ontario. I have invested $4500 in a 220 liter barrel of their Rideau River whisky. They will pay me 12.5 percent interest for the next 3 years, amounting to $1600 then I also get back my $4500, plus 12 FREE bottles of their Premium whisky. I can sell the 12 bottles, give them to friends, or enjoy them, myself. JIM.
 
I have to admit that in my 30s I was at the bar every night drinking beer. I was on my way to being a dedicated bar rat. All the people I used to bend the arm with are now dead from cirrhosis. I just stopped about 40 years ago. I still have an unopened
bottle of champagne, vintage 2000.
 
Never been much of an imbiber .. got trashed once, in my teens - that taught me a lesson. I used to indulge in a Dubonnet Red on the rocks, once a year, on my birthday, but that has fallen by the wayside over the past few birthdays.
 
I almost never drink anymore. It's just not worth the after effects. But during college, especially my junior college years and the year I spent in Vietnam I put away a substantial amount of booze. During the two years that we were in Junior college my best friend at the time worked part time at a little hole in the wall establishment known as the "Beer Mart". The owner only had a license for beer and wine so that's what we primarily got into. Of course being underage we weren't supposed to partake of the inventory but you know how that went.

We usually kept an open 6 pack in the walk in cooler where we made numerous trips to getting stuff for the customers and we would take a big swig on just about every trip. Saturdays were the really busy days and we would work from open (9am) to close (10PM) and by the end of the day we were usually in a pretty good mood. We were also able to walk out with quite a bit of beer when the boss wasn't looking. Of course we would pay for that after giving ourselves a substantial employee discount. After all Jack, the owner was only paying us minimum wage. We deserved a little bonus now and then. Right?

For hard liquor we befriended this redneck dude named Tim. Tim was also 19 but he was fat. So fat that he had failed his physical for the draft because he was way overweight. He also had a receeding hairline. Dude looked like he was at least 33 years old and no one ever checked his ID. This was way before the "Card Everyone" rule went into affect.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
 

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