Count me as another who doesn’t like the taste of alcohol. I’ve never found a wine I like. I can drink maybe a third of a bottle of beer before I get grossed out, and the only hard liquor I can stand is gin, but it’s been a couple of years since I’ve had a gin and tonic.
Considering how little I need the extra calories, it’s just as well, though I wish I could figure out a way to get the heart benefits of drinking red wine.
I don’t drink much. I like the taste of some alcoholic beverages – hard apple cider (esp. Hardcore) and merlot wines, so I buy them on occasion but generally take forever to drink them. One bottle of hard cider or one glass of merlot will give me a pleasant buzz, but a very light buzz. Any more than that and I get very, very logy and will fall asleep very easily. I understand that a glass of wine or a single beer (equvalent to hard cider) at mealtime once a day can be good for my health, but I rarely remember to buy them at the grocery store because I just am not interested in them as beverages.
I’m a sugar buzz man myself, can’t stand the taste of alcohol but give me three litres of something fizzy and sweet with artifical citrus flavoringf and I’m a happy guy.
Usually only have a drink three or four times a year. I prefer marguarita’s (though I used to occasionally “party” and have a couple of shots of maybe Yaegermiester [sp?] or something similar). Generally when I DO drink it’s an “occasion” like my mom’s or sister’s birthday, or perhaps a christmas office party (we have a small company, and none of us drink much).
The older I get, the less “frequently” I drink. But even back as a teen (the drinking age was 19 in my state when I was a kid back in the cough1970scough), but even then, on the “wildest” party nights I’d set a limit of 3 drinks for myself.
I’ve never had more than two drinks in one sitting, and I’ve never been drunk. I occasionally have a small glass of Bailey’s after dinner, or a glass of Madeira when I can’t sleep, but that’s about it. I hate the head-swimming feeling most alcohol gives me.
Once upon a time, I would drink till I got drunk, sick, whatever and I would do it maybe monthly or even weekly. Now I drink a tiny bit maybe once or twice a year. A half glass of wine can make me feel a little hungover so why bother. I avoid alcohol for two reasons: calories and the fact that I have a child. I don’t want to feel less than alert or like crap and try to take care of him at the same time.
I have to agree with pretty much everything you said. Used to do the binging, drinkingh alone, etc., but then gave it up. Drink in moderation now, but more than a glass of wine/beer makes me very sleepy.
I’m not a big drinker. I don’t like the taste of most beers. Don’t offer me some particular type, I’ve tried many from light to heavy and in between and none of them taste that good. Now I do like a good frozen drink or something like that but I don’t like being drunk unless I’m at home or in a very safe environment.
I also associate the taste of wine with being in church. I should probably break that.
Like many others, I drank regularly and excessively in my youth. (Youth meaning ages 16 to about 24 - and now that I’m 26 I can look back upon those years fondly !)
My friends all drank and I used to enjoy it too. Now I have one or two drinks a night when I go out (which happens rarely due to economic constraints) and the occasional wine or beer with husband/roommate, any more makes me sick the next day.
I think it happened when I developed a fondness for another substance, now not illegal in Canada. Doing both quite reliably made me hurl and then fall asleep, so I gave up the drinking.
Also drunk people are often assholes and I don’t want to be that.
This is not to say that I don’t enjoy the occasional piss-up, as long as the rest of the weekend is free for me to be able to lie around and moan and feel sorry for myself. (My alcohol tolerance has gone way down so it usually takes only 3-4 beers to get to this point.) But mostly I’m happy to just nurse a beer, smoke a bit and drink water.
Don’t like beer, dry wine, or unmixed liquor. There are some sweet “girlie” drinks that I enjoy, and I love me some toasted almond. But I rarely drink. I have a very low tolerance for alcohol - I can feel the effects of a few swallows of wine almost immediately. Never have been drunk, and never wanted to be.
I am going to try to have a little red wine each night, if I can find a red that I like. At my age, I’ll do what I can to benefit my heart, having abused it for the first half-century of my life.
as i’ve mentioned elsewhere, i grew up with active alcoholics in the family. the glamour and appeal of getting shit-faced myself was practically zero after that.
i’ll have a drink socially on occasion, like if we’re eating at a restaurant. at a party, i’m likely to wind up driving home, since my husband will happily have a drink or two, so i stick to sodas.
i’ve got dozens of different flavored wine coolers and some of those fruit-flavored wines in the basement. whenever (infrequently) i’m in the mood, one wine cooler will generally last me a couple nights. some of those Jack Daniels pre-mixed thingies aren’t too bad either. they don’t go down any faster than the wine coolers, though.
i know human behavior has included consuming alcohol in various quantities for several millenia at a minimum. but given the taste of most regular wine, distilled booze or beers, i’m absolutely damned if i could tell you why.
Once in awhile I’ll have a glass of wine, but half the time I forget the bottle’s in the fridge.
When we have company over, after the kids are down, then we’ll break out the fun stuff. But before the 4th of July, I think the last time I got falling down drunk was New Years Eve.
I guess I’m a holiday drinker.
I very rarely drink due to medical concerns, plus I’ve tried several different drinks (mostly beers & wines) and I haven’t really enjoyed them. I’ve experimented a bit recently to celebrate a couple things, and found that I like rye & coke. I wanted to experiment just to see why people like to get tipsy/drunk/sloshed/etc. I can see why people like to drink a bit; it’s enjoyable. But to go out, drink until you can’t stand, and keep throwing up? WHY?? I don’t want to go that far, thank yew very much.
I don’t want to even think about what my tolerance levels are, since I haven’t had a drink in years. I used to drink a bit in college (mostly mixed drinks, some hard stuff), but never really liked it–the taste, the experience, the company, anything. Only been drunk once, and that’s because I hadn’t eaten all day. Now, I just don’t find anything about it interesting or appealling. :shrugs:
Used to drink socially. Had a weird “important seeing” dream and quit drinking all together. (no biggie, just fell into the "You’ve always thought you could quit at any time … might as well test that out!)
Now, I probably average about 2 glasses of wine a year, spread across the entire year, sip for taste here, sip for taste there … and probably total 5 six-packs of “non-alcoholic” beer a year. (Freudian thing, I Like sipping out of the bottle in a bar.)
But the interesting things I noticed … with NO alcohol in my system, my tolerance is remarkable! 2 “non-alcoholic” beers and I can feel the ‘high’! Thought I was nuts, till I did some research, “non” actually means “less than 0.5%” or one bottle is roughly the equal of 1/10 of a beer. Then it made sense! A small part of a glass of wine, or 1/5 of a beer had enough alcohol to make me be able to notice the difference! (I get cheerful and chatty!)
The second thing matches up with your experience, with NO alcohol in my system, and no tolerance, I was also able to notice that if I drink a whole glass of wine, I’m sluggish and draggy for a couple days after. I REFUSED to believe this could be true, since I “used to drink several cocktails in an evening and would be ‘fine’ the next day…” But, after several tests, with myself as the biased observer, refusing that it could be true, I have to tell you the results are in.
In an alcohol clean body, a drink or two is enough to throw the body off and sluggish for a couple days. (experiments run on a test group of “1” statistical data shows a possibility or error of roughly :smack:% plus or minus)
35 years old, never drank.
Why do I need a liquor to make myself feel uninhibited and silly? I’m already like that when I’m sober! 
I drink maybe 2 beers in year, and right now I’m on some realy strong antibiotics and can’t drink for fear of my liver (yay, just three more months!!)…
I drank some as a mid-teenager, but mostly just don’t like being drunk and hate puking… I’m such a cheap date 
one beer and I’m good to go
I don’t like beer at all (stop asking to try this…or this…or this…). I like some coolers, but there’s no way I’m gonna shell that kind of money just for liquid. And why the hell would I want to spend money to get sick?? Also, I’ve always had the belief that if you need to get drunk to have fun, you must not be a very interesting person.
I haven’t drunk much alcohol in probably 5 years now. I’m not an alcoholic, but I discovered the connection between drinking too much and feeling like crap for the next day or so, and pretty much stopped drinking then. (I was young, okay? Sometimes these things just aren’t obvious to youngsters. :D)
I am actually trying to get my alcohol tolerance back up to a reasonable level again, because getting tipsy on one de-alcoholized beer is just ridiculous (in my opinion, of course). There are many drinks that I like very much, and would like to have one or two of them occasionally.
Another essentially non-drinker checking in. I think the most recent drink I had was a glass of punch last Christmas Eve. I have no issues with alcohol; I just prefer non-alcoholic drinks.