Na, surely not. I don’t feel any anti-binge pressure here, certainly not any unreasonable anti-binge pressure.
Of course not. Sometimes the first two or three just quench your thirst, after that it feels like you’re drinking alcohol. It is sometimes said that I work for a drinking company that has a bit of a problem with it’s “working culture.”
Yikes! Aren’t you a an airline pilot?
My alcohol consumption is about one glass of wine a day, but I do like having that one glass of wine.
I used to average about two or three alcoholic drinks, of various types, a day but was advised to cut down on account of a medication I was given.
Since that time I’ve learned a couple of interesting facts. Some–but not all–of my liking for alcoholic drinks was the taste. I’m really not crazy about sweet drinks and even now can barely force down a regular Coke or Seven-Up. In in many cases I now realize that when I wanted a drink I really just wanted something cool to the throat and with a biting taste. I love Angostura Bitters, which do contain alcohol but in amounts which are insignificant in a finished drink. The other thing I’ve noticed is that sometimes, if I’m out, I just want to relax for a little while in a comfortable inviting place–i.e., a bar, but not necessarily drink alcohol. The last time this happened, I was in L.A.'s West Side Pavilion, in the movie theater area, and I noticed this cool wine bar they have there. I went in, planning to have some wine, but ended up ordering a non-alcoholic beer. For whatever reason–advancing age, too early in the day, or whatever–I just realized I didn’t want alcohol at that particular moment.
I used to have to cut myself off late in the evening so I wouldn’t have too bad a hangover.
Now I have to cut myself off cranberry juice/lime/bitters, with ice-cube chasers, so I won’t have to get up and pee all night! God I’m getting old! 
Come to think of it, this makes me wonder if it’s typical to reduce your consumption as you get older. My wife has an 83 year-old cousin who will have a glass of wine once in a blue moon. As much as I love wine, it’s hard to understand how one could not have at least one glass a day, knowing that the person in question can do so safely (i.e. with zero likelihood that one drink will turn into a binge). On the other hand I know also that as I’ve passed well into middle age, my own tolerance for alcohol does seem to be going down a bit, compared to my college days. Like so many people, do in college, I belonged to a drinking club with a minor fraternity problem.
I never did get through three servings of Fogcutter and manage to keep them down!
One would hope.
I mean I can no longer fully embrace the college/20-something drinking culture of going on 8 hour benders Weds (the new Thurs), Thurs (happy hour night), Fri (everybody’s working for the weekend), Sat (the night I like) and Mon (R U ready for some football) night. But every once and a while I don’t mind.
And grabbing a few beers after work with some pals at a classy establishment doesn’t count.
So basically, I didn’t quit drinking. I quit getting so rocked that I wake up the next morning hung over and wondering what I peed on.
I have two drinks a day on an ordinary day - usually a glass of something (I’d prefer red wine but it costs a fortune here so I often settle for hard liquor over ice with lots of water added) while I cook and a second glass at dinner or later. Out of the ordinary goes both ways - no liquor if I’m busy/it’s unavailable, a third drink if I’m stressed/celebrating/up late socializing.
I never drank at all until my late 30s (I’m 49), but started mostly because I was surrounded by drinkers. Now, I enjoy it because I am so damned high strung and it relaxes me. I hate the feeling of being drunk, though, and therefore drink slowly and/or consume food so I get a slight buzz but no more. Oh, and I never drink and drive, ever. Not a sip.
Not an airline. I work with a crew of four and we’re all fairly “social” when we go away together but we don’t break the rules with regards to drinking and flying.
I don’t drink much but when I do I make it count - I’ll drink until I’m slightly buzzed all the way up to totally bombed. That only happens 4-5 times per year. I usually stick to off-the-shelf “premium malt beverage” drinks such as Mike’s Hard Lemonade™, or sweet mixed drinks such as Fuzzy Navels, Cosmopolitans, etc. I enjoy a glass of wine from time to time, and in general I don’t care for beer, although I’m starting to develop a taste for some microbrewed specialty beers.
Nuh-uh. Haven’t tried 'em. Because beer should taste like BEER. 
I can’t imagine liking fruit-infused beers. Oh, does Sam Adams “Cherry Wheat” or whatever the hell it is count? If so, then I can definitely say NO.
I don’t drink. I’m not a prig about it. I don’t care if I’m out with people who do drink. I just think it tastes bad, is expensive and fattening. And I don’t like altering my conciousness. And Coke is the greatest thing since…maybe the pyramids were built. High-calorie too, but worth it.
StG
I dislike the taste of alcohol. I don’t really care whether others drink it, but I will only occasionally take a sip of wine or whatever. And I loathe beer. At least I did when I was a kid, and I haven’t tasted it since.
My family would drink beer and wine now and then. We had a liquor cabinet that was mostly for guests and the odd fancy party. Otherwise, bottles of liquor would sit around in it from year to year and get dusty. (I sometimes had to dust them.)
And to think I thought I was weird for only drinking when out, not at home. I’m from a family with many alcoholics, and drinking at home smacks of “drink until I get blitzed”. My drinks top out at four, because that’s when I start to get woozy. The real question is why do so many of us feel compelled to drink while out?
The drinks I get vary on the situation. Usually I get beer though I’m very picky. When they’re not available, I get rum and cokes. Oddly enough, if the party is fancy, I drink vodka tonics because “it’s classier”. Anyone else do this?
The point of going out was usually to drink (and meet girls). In college, that’s just what everyone did. Every thurs, fri and sat night the freshman dorms emptied out and everyone went to the fraternity parties.
When I was in a fraternity, if we weren’t hosting a party ourselves, we would either go to another houses party or to the bars.
And it just kind of continued into our 20s. We go out for happy hour after work or drink on the weekends.
I guess it’s because everything seems a bit more fun and exciting when everyone has a few in them.