• StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 天前

        I said this a little higher up. Shower beer is one of those things that people who haven’t experienced it will look at you like you’re mad but Iykyk.

        (and you can’t JUST get in the shower with a beer. at the very least you should do it after hitting the gym. The physical exhaustion is a key component of the shower beer experience.)

    • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 天前

      Funny story: When I was in college, my friends and I went on a ski trip over spring break. Being broke college students, we stayed at someone in the group’s brother’s apartment, who lived there. It was jam-packed, with 8 of us on the living room floor in sleeping bags. We were all heavy drinkers (college) and did a power hour after the slopes closed on one of the days. For anyone who doesn’t know, a power hour is one shot of beer every minute for an hour. It adds up to 90 Oz or 7.5 cans of beer over an hour. Since we were all sweaty from skiing, and there was only 1 shower, everyone was taking turns with the shower beers to keep up with the power hour. I puked right after finishing. Good times.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 天前

    The beer that isn’t everywhere, but you had one over a year ago, and you thought “Man, that beer was delicious. I should try it again. But will it still be just as good?”

    And then you get one and it’s exactly as delicious as you remember.

    • 0ops@piefed.zipEnglish
      25·
      4 天前

      I drink two beers before I drink two beers, and then I drink two more

    • chisel@piefed.socialEnglish
      14·
      4 天前

      I got one! The “it’s Thursday which is basically Friday so it’s totally cool and normal to have a 6 pack” beer.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 天前

        Hey I’m just about there! 10-15 drinks every night for so many years. Stopped almost six months ago! I’m gonna have some Champaign for a very special event in my life, and a few beers in the coming months because I have ONE event I am GOING to be hardcore trashed at… the furry con my partner and I go to. Then it’s back to sober for a good while!

        Medical stuff tho, if splitting a bottle of Champaign doesn’t treat me well, I’ll have to nix all the other drinking plans and just do the other substances I do at furry con without drinking D: New years sober was totally easy, my wedding anniversary super easy, very few times in the past half year have I been even sort of tempted. But I’m determined to get just skronked at our furry con.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          3 天前

          Stopped almost six months ago!

          Nice. Eventually you realize you never needed it in the first place and wonder why you ever thought you did.

          Then it’s back to sober for a good while!

          Don’t be so sure… (source: someone who’s quit drinking several times)

          “Quitting’s easy. I do it all the time!” It’s staying quit that’s the challenge, at least until you learn to appreciate sobriety. One sip can turn into a binge. One night of drinking can lead to a week or a month or a year of being wasted. Our brains are wired to want “more”.

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            3 天前

            Thank you and thank you for the very correct advice! Alas, and I know everyone says this, but my situation was a bit different than yer bog standard alcoholic. I was a bog fancy alcoholic! Nah, but really, my partner and I started drinking heavily every evening during COVID cuz it just made everything even more fun. Never to feel better about stuff going badly or to escape or anything, we just liked to drink all the time and talk and play stuff and laugh. Way not healthy to do every day, as evidenced by my big ol health issue it caused! It was temporary and I’m better now, and technically I COULD have been drinking the past couple months… I had a few times I planned to have a few beers, just just decided not to.

            I’m definitely never giving it up fully if my body can handle it, I’d for sure kms. But I’m saving it for special stuff in the future, assuming my body actually lets me have some drinks without having the issue I ran into again. If it causes the thing I dealt with again after a few drinks, then I guess I’ll give it up and stick around anyway hahaha.

            My partner and I definitely enabled each other. I told them when I was in hospital that they can totally drink around me and I won’t have a problem with that, I won’t be upset, and I can handle any cravings. Turns out, no cravings! I’m very lucky. No withdrawals, no seizures, no DTs. Just some really shit sleep for a couple weeks. My boy has been INCREDIBLE. Went from drinking every day with me to only very occasionally now. We’ve both lost a ton of weight, too! We were never huge huge, but definitely gained a good chunk since 2020 (we were both very petite before then, got fairly big, and we are on our way back to petite again already!)

            But yah, I firmly believe I can handle my shit more responsibly now, having felt the full effects of the repercussions it can cause. I believe this because I’ve done every substance out there (except opiates, never touched those until I went to hospital for this issue and they loaded me up with Dilaudid all day every day which was WILD) and even the things folks classically go overboard with, I’ve been responsible with. (A ball of the best blow you can imagine generally would last my partner and me two weeks!) I know it’s time to treat alcohol that way now too, rather than treating it as night-coffee.

            • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              2·
              3 天前

              Whatever you need to tell yourself to rationalize it…

              I’m not gonna claim everyone’s experience is the same, but I remember my first few times quitting alcohol and what you’re saying sounds a lot like the things I told myself. “Of course my situation is different. I’m me!” “I can handle it better in the future.” “Life would be unbearable without it.”

              But at the end of the day, I destroyed my life enough times that I don’t feel any desire to watch someone else destroy theirs. I’m not gonna try to talk you out of your decisions. I won’t tell you what to do or not do. But I won’t encourage it either. So don’t try to convince me of what you’re ultimately only trying to convince yourself…

              • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                3 天前

                Hey, I’m just sharing my own experience. Everyone is different, but lots of people (including… no, especially alcoholics) like to think everyone who drinks is the same, or everyone is like them.

                It was fun as hell and I don’t regret it, but my body says I don’t get to do that anymore. I’m not even sure I’ll let me drink occasionally, I have yet to find that out. But I physically cannot drink like I used to, it’d be worse than death.

                • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  1·
                  3 天前

                  I have the same gripe. I stopped going to AA cause I got tired of some old dudes telling me I’m lying to myself because I didn’t identify with their deplorable backstories.

                  Like, yeah, I’ve made some mistakes, and I’m not without regrets which pain me every day. But some of the stuff I heard people say they had done made even me clutch my proverbial pearls…

                  And then they look at me like they think I’ve done the same shit and just don’t have the integrity to admit it.

                  But like I said, I’m not gonna try telling you how to live your life.

        • horse@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          3 天前

          This is just me, but I just wouldn’t man. I drank for years and then quit completely about 6 years ago. To me it wouldn’t be worth the risk of falling back into my old ways. I know me and even if it was fine just this once, that would quickly turn into “it was fine last time, so it’ll be fine again” and then just creep back up on me. Sure, sometimes I still fancy a beer (or maybe I just still have cravings), but being sober all the time is really not that bad. It’s pretty sweet actually.

        • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 天前

          It’s good to have something to look forward to?

          Imagine how much more metal it would be to not drink for any reason, even to “celebrate” or because… well, whatever your reason is for being “determined to get just skronked”.

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            2 天前

            I don’t need a fuckin reason, as long as my body can handle it I can just do it because I like it. And no, 5-MeO-DiPT was fucking metal. DOC was metal. DMT is metal the rare rare times we break through. I’ve chilled out a lot in my years but those were insane experiences that showed me things I’ve never seen before. Drinking is just fun to do sometimes.

            Looking forward to? Taking a heroic dose of Molly with my best friend partner for life ever twice a year and spending ten hours naked in bed rolling around watching stuff and listening to music and staring into each other’s eyes and linking our brains is my “look toward to”

            I’m just gonna drink sometimes, unless my body does the thing again. If it does, I’m never touching it again. If it doesn’t, imma drink occasionally. My reason?

            Becuz

    • Hasherm0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 天前

      What about the “I’m totally going to stop drinking, at least for a little while… tomorrow” beer?

  • BambiDiego@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    3 天前

    “4 weeks sober after 10 years of crippling alcoholism” beer.

    You said ‘hits different,’ not ‘good hits different.’

    • TwilitSky@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 天前

      Anyone in this scenario should remember it’s temporary and they can get right back on the horse of sobriety without destroying their lives again.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 天前

    The “it’s morning and I’m out of coffee and tea and there is only beer in the fridge, guess I’m gonna call in sick today” beer.

  • BorgDrone@feddit.nlEnglish
    20·
    3 天前

    The “first warm day of spring and all the terraces on the old market square are packed but you managed to snag a table” beer.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 天前

    The movie theater beer, if you’ve never experienced a good movie while slightly buzzed do yourself a favor and try it, you can even pre game a bit to avoid paying too much at the theater concession.

  • marquisalex@feddit.ukEnglish
    44·
    4 天前

    The sleeper - the beer that you’ve never heard of, has a shitty label, but tastes like the nectar of the gods. You will never see it again, but will think about it for weeks

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 天前

      Last summer we rode our bikes to a pub nearby and I had the best fucking blueberry cream ale that I’d ever tasted in my life. I had just worked up a sweat on my bike, and the beer was cool, creamy, and sweet. Like Jesus just came in my mouth.

      Went back a few weeks later and tried to order one, only to be told they have rotating taps and no longer had it.

      The bartender didn’t know what it was called. I’ve never seen a blueberry cream ale anywhere else. I’m gonna be chasing that dragon for the rest of my life.

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      3 天前

      I still remember the beers I drank on an overland trip from Germany through Poland & the Baltics to Belarus. Some of them were exactly like that. Just local breweries, no chance to ever find them again.

    • arctanthrope@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 天前

      Lagunitas Aunt Sally. a beer that I had exactly once, was maybe my favorite ever, and I tried for two years to find again before learning it was a seasonal that’s been discontinued