Beer o’clock, beer thirty, TGIF… whatever the term, what time is the right time for you? With very rare exception, I won’t have anything until the afternoon or evening. Unless I’m on vacation or at a ballpark something about a daytime pint just feels too early.
Weekdays? 4:30 Weekends? Whenever lunch is served. Vacation? If they're pouring at 7AM at the airport, I'm there.
For me it is around 7:30 pm, unless I am traveling with specific beer places to go, then it is way earlier!
I had a few of them in mind! Time zones make it a little tricky. All the WBAYDN threads I’ve started were from nights I was up super late, not because I had an early start.
I'm retired now, so it's the weekend every day. However, as I've gotten older, my tolerance for alcohol has lessened. Typically, I don't drink during the week, and even Friday thru Sunday I make sure all my daily chores and physical exercise are completed first. So these days I typically don't start before 1 pm at the earliest. My wife and I do quite a few riverboat cruises now, and the cruise lines always offer alcohol for lunch and dinner (and often Bloody Mary's and mimosas at breakfast). Wine and beer are typically complimentary during meals, so I initially figured I'm on vacation, why not? However, two or three glasses of wine at lunch and I was all but worthless for the rest of the afternoon (and there would typically be excursions to go on). Lesson learned, I now wait till dinner to consume alcohol even on a cruise.
Lake weekend - coolers are closer to the bed than the coffee maker, so the first can of Coors Banquet gets cracked open before the 'on' button of the coffee maker gets pressed.
Hmmm Unless I’m on vacation, I usually only indulge on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Occasionally on other days, but usually not. Thursday’s is “date night” with the wife. We like to go out before the weekend crowds come out. Seating and service is sooooo much better. I usually pop the first top off somewhere between 5 and 7:00. If it’s Saturday, anything goes, especially if there’s a pool party or something going on.
The upside of being retired is I can drink whenever the spirit moves me. The downside of being retired is the same.
Smart move. My wife and I have discussed making a similar change, but we just can't get out of the Friday "date night" habit. We're both retired, so there's absolutely no reason to keep Friday as date night, but we seem to be incapable of making a change. Except when we're on a trip, when every night is date night (as my wife likes to say).
This time of year shadows hit my garden patio about 5:00, so I have have a beer then. Later in the summer shadows arrive earlier, so I go to the patio earlier if I am in the mood. Vacations; there are no rules.
Weekends, if I'm working around the house or yard I try to wait until 3PM so I can get things done. Weekdays, usually 5 or 6, whenever we start cooking dinner. Vacations- Noon. This would be a good survey post if we could define weekends, weekdays, vacation, retired etc. On 2nd thought that's too many dimensions for a simple survey.
Whenever the hell I feel like it. Somedays I don't drink at all, and somedays I'll start around Noon. Today, for example, I have a meeting from 2-3pm, and then a friend getting to town around 3, so, then.
Big Hockey Fan and during hockey season puck drop is usually around 7:00 during the week. I usually crack my first one right at puck drop. Hockey is perfect, 3 periods, one beer per period. Works out perfectly.
Don’t get me wrong, we’ll still go it on Fridays occasionally, usually with a bunch of friends, or just to somebody’s house to play games, cards, or fire-pit drinking. That’s not really a “date night” though. My wife is already retired and works a “fun retirement job” as she calls it. More of a hobby she gets paid for really. I’ve still got a few years to go.
Ninety percent of my beer drinking is with a meal. At home, dinner is around 5 pm, except Sundays when a nice Sunday dinner is around 3 pm. If I'm on a pub crawl or vacation, I'll drink whenever I'm at a place that serves beer
Don't drink Mondays, as they suck. I start work around 4ish, and tend to split my days between external location/home... I usually get home around 12-1. Beer is fair game for me after that.
