Missing Beer from Home

I’m the only alcoholic in my house so I’ll never have this issue. Yay, I guess. And not to be suggestively preachy, but I pray to God my son doesn’t grow up wanting to drink beer. Most of you people don’t think about alcoholism but it is real and it ruins lives. Just a thought. Carry on ...

 

What if it wasn't your kids or their friends, but another guy? Install a real camera that only you know about.

 

Sorry for your loss.

 

Prayers

 

I used to drink a bunch of dumb ass shit from my parents liquor cabinet (like mixer stuff, cause obviously I didn’t know any better. Nor did I care).

One time I opened up, what I found out years later, a very old Chianti that my dad was cellaring. My mom was always the yeller/punisher in my family, but having my old man scream at me (this was one out of the two times he ever raised his voice) was an experience I never want to endure again. Now I’m always the one bringing old italian vintages to Sunday dinners!

Give them a stern talking to, and hopefully down the road they will be the ones bringing you nice beers whenever they stop by!

 

I have two 18 year-olds and a 16 year-old and none of them have ever touched one of my beers. I'm worried that there's something wrong with them.

Once, somebody made chocolate milk in my favorite imperial pint pub glass.

 

I gave my daughter a taste of Old Peculiar when she was (very) young. She pronounced that "beard" was "escusting" and would never drink it. She's in her late 20's now, and enjoys good craft beer.

So yes....

 

Just keep a case of keystone in your cellar, they will always pick that. Cheers!

 

And I thought you were going all Jeffrey Dahmer on us... not that I wouldn't understand in this case.
Back in the day...we knew better than to crack open a beer or wine bottle, we hit the liquor and then refilled clear liquor bottles with water.
Needless to say, by the time I was in grad school... there was a bit of water in the liquor cabinet.

 

Just last week my 21 yo son surprised us with a week break at home from a summer internship. He actually turned 21 while away, so I decided to share a beer with him the first night and poured us both a couple of Jevers. "This is very much like the beer that got me started," I said, "Cheers." Then came the face again, and by halfway through I saw that he wasn't really enjoying it, and just drinking it to be polite. So I emptied his glass into mine and got him something else (Yards Brawler mild ale). He enjoyed that one much better, so there's the first lesson, I guess: there's something out there for everyone (and usually a lot more where that came from). Also: only dad knows how to navigate his fridge .

 

Of course it was the "kids", I used to take booze from my Dad as well.

 

I take night shifts at the liquor store near home as a way to give my income a little shot in the arm during school, one time a man who looked to be about 60 came in with a bottle of white rum that he said had been "watered down" after he opened it and of course blamed us for selling him this faulty product.

I know we didn't water it down and the vendor has been rock solid in the past, so I just asked him if he had any teenagers in his house and I gotta say, the look on his face still makes me laugh.

 

There are different ways to handle this. First of all, you're not going to stop it. The 2nd thing is to give unofficial permission. Grab them by the ear, when Moma aint around, and drag them down to the cellar and show them whats available and whats off limits. Explain the rules to them, so to speak. Worked ok at my house several years ago.

 

My sister drank and watered down some whiskey out of the cupboard when we were young. I don't know for sure what it was, but my memory has it pegged as a nice looking whiskey bottle. My dad didn't drink whiskey, it was most likely a present. So no real punishment came that I know of.

 

It was a while back, but I do recall hanging out at my cousin's one day when we were teenagers. My uncle had only marked the 'good stuff' so we started doing shots of anything unmarked. I tell ya, you don't want to know what a Sweet Vermouth hangover feels like .

 

I had to do that also to separate my beer from "beer for company"

 

I'll go back 2 generations. My Dad had plenty of beer around and rather encouraged me to learn to drink at home. I have always kept beer and wine around my kids. They drank some but not much. I later told them that what was mine was theirs and everyone around here is now trying new beers at each new famiy gathering.

 

My Dad used to do some consulting for Anheuser Busch 20 odd years ago. He didn’t really drink beer but for some reason had gotten some Bud Dry. I cracked a can once as a teen and could only get through half of it.

We did raid the liquor cabinet a little, but considering there was still a fifth of Tanqueray with a price tag for $7, I don’t think anyone missed it. One thing I learned real quick is that Dr Pepper does not work to replace Coke as a mixer. Jim Beam and Dr Pepper <shudder>.

 

Haha, pepperbeam was my shit back when I was younger and didn't know any better. Obviously my tastes have improved since then.