I’m basically a 2. Even a small sip of alcohol makes me sick, so I don’t drink at all, but I have no objection to anyone else drinking. I wouldn’t say that drunk people bore me: Someone who’s interesting sober will probably still be interesting drunk, but alcohol certainly won’t make them any more interesting.
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None of the options really apply to me. I usually have a glass of wine on Friday and Saturday but not as a “social lubricant/catalyst.” I haven’t drunk to excess in ages; the last time was probably when I was a grad student (15 or so years ago).
I enjoy alcohol and wouldn’t want to give it up completely, though I think I could if I had to (health reasons or similar). However, if I ever had to give up tea, that would be a true sacrifice and I’m not sure life would be worth living. 
I used to be a 7. I held off all day, but got drunk every night.
I’ve been sober almost 12 years, so now I’m somewhere between 2 and 3. If other people want to drink, that’s their business. My wife likes to have a glass of wine now and then, and having it in the house doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
I enjoy well-made beers of all types and well-aged scotch of the peaty type. What I don’t do is drink to the point where I can’t sense those subtle nuances that I enjoy when I drink either one. I will have my Friday Beer, which is always a beer I haven’t tried before and is picked out by My Beloved, I will try out homebrews made by my friends, and if someone gifts me with a bottle of Bruichladdich Octomore I’m not going to insult them by letting it collect dust, unopened.
I guess between 2 and 3. The problem with the scale is that is mixes somewhat separate issues: how often you drink, how often in excess, whether you care about other people’s drinking.
I drink lightly but mostly at home with meals, not in outside social settings. But it’s not that I ‘don’t often get shit faced’, I basically never do (haven’t been drunk in 35+ yrs). But since drinking problems run in my family I’m somewhat uptight about my grown kids’ drinking habits which causes tension sometimes. I don’t specially care about the drinking habits of people outside my family (drinking per se, I care about drunk driving etc.).
I generally also fall about a 5 or a 6. I enjoy a good scotch now and then, or a well made Old Fashioned, and believe my life would be worse the wear for it. I also enjoy a beer a couple nights a week for dinner, with maybe a second on a Friday night. More than that and I think the “get sleepy” effects outweigh anything else and I sometimes find it a useful sleep aid.
Once in a while I’ll drink enough to get a decent buzz going. These are almost always social occasions with family, and I always make sure it’s in a safe location with a safe way home (if I’m not hosting at my house). My wife and I used to trade off family occasions to “not worry about drinking”, but she’s run into some health problems and can’t have more than one without really paying for it, so I usually luck out there.
Which is nice because my family likes getting together for holidays and my one uncle has a superlative whisky(/scotch/rye if you want to be specific) cabinet and its nice to try a couple different things.
But by the same token I have gone for long stretches (months) without drinking, just because there isn’t really a reason to.
I’ll have a cider after a game at the curling club, or if I’m eating at a pub.
I never developed a taste for most alcoholic drinks, although I still try different ones from time to time. Beer is all too bitter for me. I saw something on Wikipedia about the original six cocktails and decided to try them all. A Jack Rose isn’t bad, but very few bars stock applejack.
How long does wine keep, and still be good for cooking? My pasta sauce recipe uses 1/4 cup, and I’ve got some in the fridge, but it’s been there for a while.
I’m more or less a 3 on the OP’s scale. I’m usually the only one not drinking at an event where there is alcohol, but I will take a drink now and again, especially at a live music show where I know that’s the main subsidy for the band. I’ll also imbibe if we’re visiting a winery, or if someone is up for a quality tequila tasting. I’m closer to a 2 than I am to a 4, though.
ETA: I’m with Robot Arm on worrying about alcohol going bad. If a bottle of vodka comes into my house, it’s going to last a while. I do go for a good screwdriver now and again, but I haven’t mixed one at home in at least a couple of years. And, yes, I’ve wasted a bit of wine.
I think I’m a 5 or a 6 but that really doesn’t capture me. Booze is my life. My job is building and designing distilleries and in a lot of cases, I also do recipe development both for spirits and cocktails in the evenings lately I’ve been working on a vacuum still design for a custom still I’m building a client and working on the recipes that I’m going to kick the still off with to impress them which woke me up the other night for about 3 hours thinking about how I’m going to make a honey-mango vodka and what cocktails would highlight it.
That being said I haven’t had a drink since the super bowl where I did get a nice buzz and I’m two beers into a six pack I bought at the beginning of January as my only non-super bowl drinking. I keep lots of booze in the house mainly that my friends or I have made but I rarely will have even one drink a week. I’m a huge snob and only drink good booze so it’s expensive to drink when I’m not drinking for free/cheap with my friends. Also, I burned out a couple of years back when I was running my distillery and I made booze all day and slung drinks all night and went home smelling like it every day for two years.
So, I’m a social drinker who occasionally drinks too much and thinks about booze constantly and whose life would be much worse off it is disappeared from the world.
- I like drinking; I could do without it, but my life would be less rich.
I rarely go a day without drinking, but if someone bet me $500 I couldn’t go a month without, I’d collect on the bet. I prefer weed to alcohol, but a bit of each is the cat’s ass.
I’d say about a #6. I drink every day, 2 or 3 glasses of wine in the evenings. I believe if I was sitting around by myself, or doing something that required all my faculties, I could skip it without regret, but I haven’t tested that theory. I’m not really interested in testing it either; I look forward to my daily relaxation.
I’m between a 1 and a 2. I don’t drink, and I don’t really care that other people drink. I do, however, care if other people act like irrational imbeciles, and one seems to follow the other.
Grew up 2, now 3, but slowly turning more into 4, since I’ve discovered the joys of infusion. I tend to like things more that I have had a hand in making myself.
Solid 5. Like kayaker, I drink most every day but could do without at will, and have. I also have been and will be again a quite active homebrewer.
#2 basically. I’ve never even been interested enough to try alcohol, much less get drunk, and find drunk people boring. But if people want to drink *and *avoid hurting anyone else, that’s their business.
I’m somewhere between 2 & 7, depending on the circumstances.
Alcohol is just a thing, like oranges, salmon, toast, chocolate milk… Sometimes I seek comfort in its specific properties and sometimes I don’t. With things like beer, wine, and absinthe I find intoxication to be an unfortunate and inconvenient side effect of an otherwise enjoyable beverage. And sometimes I am aiming to get high for any number of reasons so just stay out of my way if you’re not coming with me. I just assume anyone I encounter who isn’t where I’m at on the scale just has different values and needs at that particular time. None of my busy.
Same here, but without the weed (too illegal around here). So I’d say a 5.
Solid 3.
Between 1 & 2. I have much more respect for people who refrain from alcohol.