Beer Drinking Strategy?

"d15b" (d15b7)
03/25/2016 at 19:21 • Filed to: I do this everynight

What’s your beer drinking strategy? Six pack for one evening? Twelve for the weekend? Forties of malt liquor?

Any pro tips? Is Bev-Mo the best place to get beer?

DISCUSSION (51)

Milky > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:23

All of it now.

But a 6-pack of something good is a good baseline for a night.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:23

Sixxer for the night...if I keep more than that in the house I tend to drink all of it in one go.

Birddog > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:23

Twelve for the weekend??

BWAHAHAHAHA!

I’ll knock out twelve between lunch and dinner on a busy Saturday.

They invented the 30 pack for me!

ranwhenparked > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:25

Keep going until fingers and lips get numb, then get some fresh air and a cigarette, eat something, drink a bottle of water, and start over again.

d15b > Birddog
03/25/2016 at 19:25

So quantity is your strategy. Gotcha!

TheHondaBro > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:26

I’d use my mouth, but do whatever makes you happy.

d15b > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
03/25/2016 at 19:26

Only if they had an eight pack of beer. Seriously.

ly2v8-Brian > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:26

As many as I want.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:28

A good compromise is a 6 pack of tallboys. It’s basically an 8 pack, but you can tell people you only drank six!

I don't think I have a problem.

crowmolly > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:28

Usually a nice six or two for the weekend but I won’t finish it all.

d15b > Milky
03/25/2016 at 19:28

My current favorite:

Kinja'd!!!

d15b > TheHondaBro
03/25/2016 at 19:29

PHRASING!

d15b > crowmolly
03/25/2016 at 19:29

There needs to be an eight-pack.

pitstop_pitowski > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:30

Kinja'd!!!

Drink a growler to yourself

Master Cylinder > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:30

A six of something delicious and heavy, or a 12 of watery piss-lager is good for a night of drinking, or 2-3 nights of polite company.

I wish we had Bev-Mo here. I visited one when I was on vacation in San Diego last year and it was awesome. I do have a good local liquor store with a decent selection, but compared to BevMo it’s like a gas station vs. a grocery store in terms of selection.

crowmolly > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:31

*that isn’t an American macrobrew

d15b > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
03/25/2016 at 19:31

What brands sell a six pack of tall boys? You actually got me thinking about this a little more, lol.

Gamecat235 > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:33

All of it.

Kinja'd!!!

d15b > Master Cylinder
03/25/2016 at 19:34

You can 12 of these for about 7 bucks. It tastes a bit better than Bud Light, MGDs, etc.

You can find it at Trader Joe’s.

Kinja'd!!!

RallyWrench > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:35

Don’t drink aggressively hopped beers first, it’ll wreck your palate for anything else. If it’s a session or your drinking all day, drink a couple of quality beers up front, then switch to cheaper stuff once you don’t care about the flavor as much. Also avoid anything over 5% in that case, because you’ll get shitfaced.

I don’t drink during the week (defined as Monday through Friday afternoon), but usually have 3-4 good IPAs or other good stuff on the nights I do. I like to try new beers too, so I try to seek out things I haven’t tried or that I haven’t had in awhile. I’m a beer snob nut, but if I’m doing yardwork all day or out mountain biking or doing trailwork, it’s Banquet Beer time.

BevMo can be counted on to have a good selection, but you may find a hole-in-the-wall liquor store whose owner knows what’s up and stocks some more special stuff, worth looking around for.

Master Cylinder > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:35

Trader Joe’s is the best. I don’t have one close to my house, but my doctor’s office is right above one. Whenever I have an appointment, I stock up on cheap beer, wine, and cheese.

d15b > Gamecat235
03/25/2016 at 19:35

See, every time I start to build a collection, I just drink it all.

blacktruck18 > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:35

Beer bong 40's, remind your liver who’s the boss.

interstate366, now In The Industry > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:35

Sixer.

Gamecat235 > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:38

I have a few beers that are 4-5 years old, most are in the 1-3 year range, except IPAs, pale ales, etc, those get consumed pdq. I'm not a very effective drinker.

d15b > Master Cylinder
03/25/2016 at 19:38

The Heller Bock isn’t bad.

d15b > Gamecat235
03/25/2016 at 19:39

Not happening with me, lol.

Birddog > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:39

Quantity... Bingeing... It goes by many names.

Gamecat235 > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:42

BTW, that's 4 years on untappd... Which is a bit crazy (I'm a big fan of ordering flights, and ordering weird things I've never tried before).

d15b > Gamecat235
03/25/2016 at 19:44

Any thoughts on Lagunitas: Undercover Investigation? It’s my go to beer right now.

Svend > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:48

Simply line a nominal amount of cans up and keep drinking till either all the cans are laying on their backs or I am. When I was younger I always won but as I get older I find they are winning more and more and they aren’t gracious winners either as they taunt me as I fall into a drink addled unconscious sleep in front of them.

Gamecat235 > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:49

It’s a nice big beer, it’s improved a bit in recent years. They’ve balanced it a tad over the years (it was a bit sweeter/maltier than it is now). I'm a fan. But I wouldn't personally drink more than one at a time, but I get why someone would love it.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:49

Coors and Bud both do if you want fizzy yellow beer. Narragansett works almost exclusively in tall boys, and makes a better than average beer.

Master Cylinder > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:50

The mega-brewers all do. Think Bud, Miller, Coors, etc.

d15b > Gamecat235
03/25/2016 at 19:50

Big beer? You’re using vernacular I am not familiar with. High ABV?

asindhidude > Gamecat235
03/25/2016 at 19:50

I like the water stashed in the drawer.

Gamecat235 > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:51

ABV and flavor mostly. It's not meek in either regard.

d15b > Master Cylinder
03/25/2016 at 19:51

I’m a beer snob in that I like craft beers. It just tastes better, to me.

Master Cylinder > d15b
03/25/2016 at 19:53

I’m with you there. I haven’t seen too many craft tallboys out there. I think Bell’s sells their Two Hearted IPA in tallboys, but that’s all I can think of at the moment.

Biggus Dickus (RevsBro) > d15b
03/25/2016 at 20:20

6ers of Anchor Steam.

vondon302 > d15b
03/25/2016 at 20:20

Nuff said

Kinja'd!!!

OPPOsaurus WRX > d15b
03/25/2016 at 20:33

Kinja'd!!!

I try to do a 12/week cuz I want a liver past 40. This one I got a 6 pack cuz 8.4%

OPPOsaurus WRX > d15b
03/25/2016 at 20:33

Same here.

fhrblig > d15b
03/25/2016 at 20:53

Depends on the beer and my mood, I don’t have any real manner of going about it. I can definitely plow through a lot of it on Sundays during football season, for sure. It doesn’t help that a couple of my favorites are seasonal and appear right at that time too (Great Divide Hoss and Double Bastard).

d15b > Biggus Dickus (RevsBro)
03/25/2016 at 21:46

Those are good.

d15b > OPPOsaurus WRX
03/25/2016 at 21:48

I’m not going to lie, I like strong beers.

wafflesnfalafel > d15b
03/25/2016 at 23:14

I usually have a decent selection of 22s then one, maybe two kinds in a six pack. I’ll start with 22 and then kinda go from there, (2nd 22? just one more 12?) This way I can have a nice selection and be able to vary the amount. I have been a fairly high abv guy - but there are some nice “session” style beers that are good too and you can have have three or four and still function. We have a big Total Wine and More out here and they have a really nice selection of 22s at good prices, plus one whole short isle of seasonal too - it’s like walking into a candy store for me...

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > d15b
03/26/2016 at 00:06

if its free ill drink it

Santiago of Escuderia Boricua > d15b
03/26/2016 at 00:14

All the hops... But beer is inefficient for getting drunk.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Gamecat235
03/26/2016 at 08:44

Your liver must look like a burned out watch

Gamecat235 > OPPOsaurus WRX
03/26/2016 at 08:50

Actually, given that I’ve had those beers spread over that 4 year period about as evenly as possible, I’m probably in pretty decent shape liver wise, and that I’d say possibly fully half of them have been in 3-6 oz portions, rather than full, I feel even more comfortable with that. =)

The reason my beer fridge looks like that is because I don't actually drink enough.