My purpose of drinking beer is to drink without getting inebriated. With the amount I work, it’s a handful of days I’m truly off work and off call so I’m trying to get shit done while also enjoying a beer while I’m at it. Changing the oil, cutting grass, grilling, shit like that. I haven’t bought beer by ABV since I was young and dumb and actually drank to get drunk, decades ago, now it’s all by flavor and reliability to find it.
I’ve tried more than a few microbrew joints. The shit some of them call beer is a fucking joke. Sugar Cookie? Jalapeño? Eight kinds of nasty IPA? What in the holy fuck of faggotry. I don’t want a plank to see what I will like, I want to see a known quality on the tap or in the cooler. I’m the guy you always want to go with because 100% of the time I will gladly be the DD.
Even a bottle of bourbon, which both me and my wife love and have a wide variety of, lasts years in my house. Our priorities lie elsewhere.