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1varielle
Lug 16, 2009, 3:10 pm

Tomorrow's my birthday, damn it, and I have to go join the 50-Something Library Thingers group. Best beloved is planning a pool party and cook out Saturday and I need to handle the drinks. Any memorable birthday drinks out there? or good stories mixing the two.

2geneg
Lug 16, 2009, 6:01 pm

Congratulations on your birthday. As a sixty something headed toward seventy something I can tell you birthdays are not to be cursed but embraced. Consider the alternative.

My son turns twenty-one on the nineteenth and wants to find out what it feels like to be drunk. I'm working very hard to dissuade him from finding out.

As for stories, one of the reasons I am trying so hard to discourage my son from getting drunk is that I don't remember most of my birthdays between about twenty-five and fifty and the ones I can remember I wish I didn't. Alcohol and I (it's a family thing} have a real love/hate relationship.

Congratulations on your birthday, drink a Zombie for me.

3varielle
Modificato: Lug 17, 2009, 8:19 am

Right now it looks like it's just going to be Bud Lite. If he's waited until now you must have done a good job, so he'll probably be fine and listen to you.

4reading_fox
Lug 17, 2009, 8:55 am

Bud Lite. ... Gag.

See if your local microbrew/pub will do carry out. These days you can even order beer online, and have a variety delivered in polypins.

Most of my birthdays - not nerely as many as you or Geneg - have been celebrated with real ale and single malt scotch. In sufficient moderation to be enjoyable without being unplesant.

Geneg - not that it's any of my business - but if he doesn't learn how to handle alcohol while he's in a supportive environment, he's only going to try when you aren't there. Going out on a bender together probably isn't wise either - but maybe somewhere in the middle lies a sensible moderation?

5geneg
Lug 17, 2009, 10:14 am

He's had enough alcohol in a friendly setting to know that he doesn't like it, but then who does at first. I hope it stays that way with him.

6varielle
Lug 17, 2009, 3:01 pm

We're trying to please the masses whose taste buds are only attuned to Bud. Ha. We do have a few micro-breweries that have tiny kegs. May look into that.

7geneg
Lug 17, 2009, 6:28 pm

If beer is the choice, I would suggest Dos Equis. Good body, good flavor, not too hoppy. Hoppiness is what most Bud drinkers object to. However, if hoppiness is not a problem, I don't think you can go wrong with SNPA (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale). It should be available at your local grocery store.

8Booksloth
Modificato: Lug 18, 2009, 11:16 am

#2 Let him - no, encourage him to find out. (I'd recommend something with tequlia, maybe mixed with whatever your friends and neighbours have in the back of the cupboard that seemed like a good idea to buy when they were on holiday). Once he's been spectacularly ill the urge will leave him, whereas if all he ever knows is the pleasant feeling of being just slightly tipsy he will never learn that less is more where alcohol is concerned.

ETA - Before you try this experiment, make it absolutely clear he knows that the house rule is that no-one ever has to clean up another person's vomit and if any mess of any kind is made, you get him out of bed at 7 the next morning to start the clean-up.

9mstrust
Lug 18, 2009, 11:50 am

A warm wet sponge
With a little bleach on it
Is quite a good way
To clean up vomit.

10Booksloth
Lug 18, 2009, 12:12 pm

lol!

11Dubito
Modificato: Lug 20, 2009, 2:52 am

8> My first drunk was on a pint of gin when I was seventeen. I vomited, behaved badly otherwise, and had to go to sleep in a spinning dormitory room. I went on to be an alcoholic.

Some early accommodation to alcohol may have a salutary effect. Note that alcoholism is less wide spread among Mediterranean people where they may have had wine from childhood. People exposed to drugs later in life tend to be at lower risk of becoming dependent on them than people exposed in their teens, and the brain has done with its major development by 25. If I had children I would try to encourage them to hold off until their mid-twenties.

I have, however, known people who started drinking at forty and by forty-one knew that their drinking was out of control.

Specto

12varielle
Modificato: Lug 19, 2009, 6:33 am

Party recovery mode. We settled on Newcastle Ale, fuzzy navels, and Las Rocas Granacha as well as a few miscellaneous concoctions that folks dragged in. Something for everyone.

13Booksloth
Lug 19, 2009, 8:03 am

#11 I'm really sorry to hear that Dubito. I suspect it depends quite a bit on the kind of person you are and whether you just have that 'addictive' gene. I would query your remarks about Mediterranean countries having lower numbers of alcoholics. I'm not an expert on most of them but it certainly isn't the case in Greece, which I do know a bit about. On the whole, people in Greece drink very sensibly, only with meals, and rarely get drunk, but they do also have a very high rate of alcoholism. Conversely, my sister and I were always offered small amounts of wine at meal times. I wasn't terribly keen whereas she took to it like a fish to the sea. Nowadays I drink at Christmas, holidays and the very occasionaly social event, while she is a four-bottle a day alcoholic. Go figure (as I believe they say in America.) I really wasn't suggesting that heavy drinking is good for anyone, though, and I certainly didn't mean to cause any offence to any of you who know far more about the subject than I do. And good luck to you personally - I can imagine what a struggle it must have been for you (and possibly still is). I hope things are good for you now.

14Dubito
Lug 20, 2009, 2:52 am

Booksloth, you caused me no offense. Aversion therapy makes sense; it's just that it doesn't work with alcoholics.

I will defer to you on Greece and to others more informed than I on the other countries. I have read more than once and heard often enough that those cultures that had millenia of family drinking had killed off all the alcoholics before they could reproduce a long time ago, so that the gene pool no longer has alcoholics. I've known Jewish alcoholics, but there aren't many of them, I've heard. This might be all wrong.

I haven't had a drink in over 24 years, and I am not likely to have one in what remains of today. I'm doing okay with it.

Specto