Poll: How much beer do you drink in a week?

The real # or what I tell the wife?

 

Monday - Thursday 0
Friday-Sunday 2-3

 

I homebrew and a lot of what I brew is low gravity beers, I was brewing session beers before they were popular There is a huge difference between Bigfoot and SNPA.

In all seriousness, I drink 3-4 5% beers on an average day and I don't get shitfaced on the weekend. The people who you should be concerned about are the weekday abstainers and the weekend binge drinkers if for no other reason, people do really dumb things when they are drunk.

 

Roughly "two beers" on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Those could be 12oz, 16oz each. Maybe 1 or 2 more per week sprinkled in.

 

This will affect me too. My 10 yr old son plays travel hockey and usually has early games Sat and Sun. Fun to watch him and also my favorite sport, but also keeps me in check for drinking.

 

Son play squirt last year? If so, there's chance are we've played each other last few years as mine just aged into peewee. Played a lot of NJ teams in Philly and DC last couple years. Best thing (other than watching them play) about travel hockey is hitting beer spots out of state. I'm pressing HARD for a Vermont tournament in the next few years!

 

I'm in the 2-3 a day range, but the only reason it's that low is that I don't typically like to drink beer with meals or on a full stomach (with an exception now and again for a dessert-ish stout). So it's generally self limiting unless I'm out at a specifically drinking focused social gathering.

Where I get into trouble is my love of old fashinoneds which, unlike beer, are not at all heavy or filling and therefore not at all self limiting...

Regarding the thread overall, I have a friend who is a nurse practitioner who tells me that doctors generally assume that the amount you actually drink is about 1.5 to 2 times whatever the amount you claim to drink is

 

I am about 1 a day. The problem is I usually drink near a weeks worth at one time.

 

The ones I pour into my breakfast cereal don't count, right?

 

I've stopped counting...

 

I've read that 14 per week is the safe number to stop at for your liver. So that's what I aim for (and then the weekend comes and I fail).

 

It depends on the week. In the conservation corps, I could be on project all week and alcohol is strictly prohibited during this time. However, during time off, I am out at the bars trying as many local beers as my wallet will let me. I think it averages around 8 a week.

 

Probably 3 a week, I'd say? Not sure exactly.

 

I also try not to drink M-Th, and focus on working out and eating healthy. Come Friday evening, I strap on the drink bag and consume typically about a dozen beers (6% or higher) by the end of Saturday. Sunday, my husband and I cook on the grill and celebrate "Top Shelf Sunday," where we reduce quantity and increase quality. Estimated weekly total: 15-17.

 

24 beers in a case - 24 hours in a day.

 

Are there any homebrewers responding to this poll?

I brew 10 gallons a month. That alone comes out to about 25 beers a week.

 

It all varies. Some days I don't even have a beer other days I may have one two or three. All depends on my mood and activities at hand.

 

Depends on the work schedule, but usually 1 or 2. If I didn't have such a problem keeping weight off I'd be having one daily haha.

 

Yes. Brewed five gallons last weekend and just made a starter for another five tomorrow. Half a keg full at the moment and about a case and a half in bottles. I share a ton though and then there's my wife so I don't drink it all.