Alcohol

[DailyDi]

Alcohol is a subject I don't hear much about here ,which seems a litle weird as an adult community. Are littles less likely to drink, or is drinking not part of your little space?

I rarely drink, only occasionaly induclging in some moonshine or a screwdriver.

[Stroller]

I think you'll find a fair bit of drinking happens in the lives of many of us, although I've not seen many posts that imply excessive consumption. It's probably happening for a few members on here, but I don't think there's any reason to believe it's more common than in the vanilla world.  Personally I like a couple of glasses of wine of an evening, and most weekends I'll have a gin & tonic or two.  I just got back yesterday from an AB camping weekend in the Cheshire countryside, & got through a bottle of white wine plus an extra glass over 2 evenings. I say glass, but actually it was all consumed from my sucky cup. Not really excessive consumption for a party weekend, and most of the littles weren't drinking alcohol at all, as far as I could tell.

I do drink every night these days, as it helps with the pain in my chest, which is at its worst in the evenings. Not ideal, but I don't drink a lot, and it's got to be safer than the okycodone/oxycontin I needed for months after my accident with the cows. No drinking before 6pm though, apart from the occasional lunchtime walk to the pub.

[Snugglebear_69]

I used to drink but a medication im on killed my taste for alcohol completely so I rarely have even a single drink these days.

[FretaBWet]

The wife and I drink but not every night. We keep some IPA's in the fridge for when we have pizza for dinner or when we're just in the mood for a cold one. We keep the high cabinets over our refrigerator as our bar. We tend to drink seasonally and gin and tonic is our warm weather drink usually. We keep Vodka, dark rum, Kahluah, Drambuie and Jim Beam on hand. Winter we tend to drink single malt scotch or bourbon neat and we keep a bottle of blended scotch for making rusty nails which are delicious. I have a bottle of Johnny Walker green label scotch that @LilRugrat bought me as a gift a few years ago that I break out for sipping with guests on rare occasions. We also have a bottles of white and red wine on hand for dinner. Our anniversary dinner this past week was accompanied by a bottle of 2023 Martin Rey Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvinon which we finished off. I have one bottle of Henery McKenna single barrel aged 10 years 100 proof Kentucky straight bottled in bond bourbon whiskey. I had to enter a drawing for the opportunity to buy it and won since the store only had one or two bottles. It was barreled in 2009 and I bought it around 2020. It's being saved for after my passing so my family can celebrate my life in style.

Hugs,

Freta

[rusty pins]

I was never a drinker or bar hopper.  I would have a mixed drink now and then when on vacation in my 20's or 30's.  I never cared for beer.  A shot of brandy now and then and some rum in my cookies at Christmas time was OK back then.  Today it's a small shot of home made wine 2 or 3 times a year at special occasions.  My stomach can't take it anymore.  One thing I never ever cared for was Scotch!

[le Hollandais]

After rehearsal the guys in the band would go out for a beer or two at the local microbrewery in town. I got spoiled there & learned what really good beer tasted like. And it ain't Budweiser!

In my 20s & 30s I used to keep on hand a few select bottles of wine. But mostly nowadays I'd use it in spaghetti sauce. Cooking wine does the job adequately instead.

I drink far less than I did thirty years ago. And I wasn't a big tippler then, either.

[Badbunny]

I enjoyed alcohol way too much in my 20's to the point it was everyday. I had many other reasons to stop drinking but when I started regularly wetting the bed again and had a few too many daytime accidents while drunk it was time to quit. 

[bottlestop]

1 hour ago, le Hollandais said:

After rehearsal the guys in the band would go out for a beer or two at the local microbrewery in town. I got spoiled there & learned what really good beer tasted like. And it ain't Budweiser!

In my 20s & 30s I used to keep on hand a few select bottles of wine. But mostly nowadays I'd use it in spaghetti sauce. Cooking wine does the job adequately instead.

I drink far less than I did thirty years ago. And I wasn't a big tippler then, either.

Bear in mind cooking wine uses salt as a preservative.  Any inexpensive regular wine would be a healthier alternative.

[willnotwill]

I have a lot of wine.   Cooking wine is garbage.   If you can't drink it, you can't really cook well with it either.

[spoonchicken]

13 hours ago, DailyDi said:

Alcohol is a subject I don't hear much about here ,which seems a litle weird as an adult community. Are littles less likely to drink, or is drinking not part of your little space?

I rarely drink, only occasionaly induclging in some moonshine or a screwdriver.

Moonshine ?!? Wow…you really do live in the South LOL LOL LOL 

[oliver d]

In my 20s I was quite a Bar Fly but as I grew older and had family it became much less.Still enjoy my beers and my Bourbon but not in amounts maybe a beer every evening in summer..

[Crinklz Kat]

The only alcohol I use is for disinfecting and cleaning.    I've only ever drunk alcohol a few times ever and really couldn't stand it.   

[Little Sherri]

9 hours ago, FretaBWet said:

It was barreled in 2009 and I bought it around 2020. It's being saved for after my passing so my family can celebrate my life in style.

I want to come to your place! 

I tend to drink on weekends, not religiously, but it's not uncommon, either. I have no moral compunctions about drinking, but I do tend to save it for social occasions, just because of the calories - I love a good IPA or an Imperial Stout or to sip a great Scotch or Bourbon, but if I did that every night, I'd eventually need 2XL diapers, I fear. So I typically do one night at the pub during the week, with some friends, and have a couple of lighter pints, so that I can drive home, and remain within the confines of the law. On weekends, I'll often end up at someone's house, or people will end up at my house, and higher-octane beers, and in higher quantities, will come into play. In the winter, it could also be red wine, although that's less common in the summer. A dram of a whiskey of some sort, at the end of the proceedings, is not uncommon, if it's a weekend and I don't need to worry about driving. 

[Babypants]

We indulge just about every night.  In the summer, it's Margaritas on the deck.  In the winter, cognac or brandy every time I finish shoveling.  Champagne weekly, and high end red and white wines the rest of the time, mostly from the vineyards in which we're invested down in Texas.  A nice Portuguese port laced with dark chocolate is the finish to many a meal.  In our experience, the right drink enhances the meal it accompanies.    

[diaperuser1]

I brew my own beer and enjoy breweries and wineries as a weekend treat.  I also keep some decent bourbon on hand, either Horse Soldier, Chicken Cock or Calumet farms generally.  Some other cheap ones on occasion.  But I tey to limit that to non school nights. 

[liljim57]

We drank alot before. 40 yrs ago I could play pool and drink some beers. One night wife would make bets and handle the money. If I nodded she knew to bet more on a game or a shot. The next morning I felt fine except my face was numb. I remember quit counting at 24.

[FretaBWet]

3 hours ago, Little Sherri said:

I want to come to your place! 

You've been invited but I don't think your company sends you much to the middle of nowhere.

Hugs,

Freta

[DailyDi]

6 hours ago, spoonchicken said:

Moonshine ?!? Wow…you really do live in the South LOL LOL LOL 

Don't knock it...

Got a taste for it at an event in Nashville. Just a good smooth liquor that takes natural flavors really well. Cherry Nounce, Apple Pie, Sipping Creams.... yum.

[Goerge]

I have been over 1 year sober not because I was an alcoholic but I wanted to be healthier and I was spending too much money on beer, my choice of beers was Belgium Pilsner and used to drink about 4/5 days a week, have 6 - 500mg bottles each time. Drinking mainly from boredom. I do feel much better since stopping, lost 30ibs (3 stone) and have a lot more money for nappies, I have accumulated a lot of them since stopping, also the binge/purge from wearing has dead down and I'm more steady with my 24/7 wearing. 

[astrodiaper]

I don't drink all that much.  There are a few factors here, only having one beer before I stop, oddly enough, that I don't care for the taste anymore.  I have a bottle of whisky that I was using as a nightcap with sleepy-time tea, but that has been extremely rare.  Of course, I've lost a lot of family on my dad's side of the family to alcohol abuse, so that I guess could be a reason. The big one is I don't like how I feel when I'm drunk. 

[Dubious]

I got a few bottles of beer for Christmas and bought myself a bottle of wine early this year, but other than that I've been alcohol free.

Just gotten bored of alcohol and see no use in buying it,  and chocolate milk is better and cheaper. 
Chocolate milk is like $2-3  while wine is $20-30. 

[DiaperedDarkElf]

 

 

[rusty pins]

We may have to start pouring it in our gas tanks instead of down our throats if gas prices don't come down!

[oznl]

I probably drink too much but I don't drink every day: typically 4 days per week and almost always only after 6pm.

I'll start with a couple of beers but the beers I like are very hoppy and very strong.  For me a beer "wakes up" at around 6% ABV and 7 - 8% is probably my sweet spot for a strong IPA.

Then I will switch to red wine: a few glasses.

Then I will forget what I'm watching on YouTube.

Then I wet the bed.

Sometimes I'll have a gin and tonic or a shot of whiskey with friends who enjoy it but mostly it's beer and wine.  I haven't tried moonshine but I've had (illegal) Potein served to me by Irish friends from a lemonade bottle.  Wow.  I've no idea what the ABV was but it was a lot.

I probably need to cut down because there's a lot of empty calories in alcohol.

[Little Sherri]

4 hours ago, oznl said:

For me a beer "wakes up" at around 6% ABV and 7 - 8% is probably my sweet spot for a strong IPA.

I 100% agree with this - I'd rather nurse one delicious IPA over the course of a period of time in which I would otherwise drink a couple of lower-octane beers. It's interesting that you will start on IPA, and then switch to wine - I don't do that. I don't have any particular reason, but I tend to not "cross the streams", other than allowing anything in the whiskey family to enter the game at any point. Although when drinking wine, almost always red, a glass of port at the end of the night would not be unwelcome. 

I've been discovering cocktails, recently, usually at company events - for whatever reason, we did a few of them at bars specifically dedicated to cocktails, that therefor had middling to poor beer offerings, and only obligatory wine options. Martinis and Old Fashioned's are interesting things to do with fluids that are still mostly decent hooch. I'm not so much for putting sugary fruit concoctions in my booze. If I am trying to dilute or completely euthanize the taste of the booze, then I would prefer to just not drink that booze. There are good tequilas, good gins. I haven't found any "great" vodkas, but I think that's maybe the point - a vodka's greatness is often defined by its sextuple-distilled, carbon-filtered silence.