I almost never drink at home. Gifts of bottles of wine or liquor (or those purchased to use for cooking) can sit around for years. I have a glass of wine or two at home maybe 2-5 times a year.
Going out is a different story. Drinking is almost essential for social and business relationships in my world. Also, no one drives so there is no worrying about drinking and driving. I occasionally go out to a bar or to a nice restaurant with my spouse on weekends, and I will drink anywhere from 1-3 beers or glasses of wine. If I go out with my spouse and his business associates, that's typically a 2-4 beer event on a weeknight (I usually go for 2 but they end up doing rounds and all of a sudden my glass is magically refilled). If it is a weekend or on a business trip, it could be more/different types of drinks. Happy hours with my co-workers or parties held for other work I do are usually multiple beer or liquor drink events, usually 3 or 4. Parties with friends would be multiple drinks over a span of several hours. These greater-drink events are not every week, perhaps once or twice a month, on average.
I track everything I consume so I pay attention to this. I do not think drinking is bad unless it is part of an addiction or is harming one's health (or others) or interfering with getting things done in life.
Going out is a different story. Drinking is almost essential for social and business relationships in my world. Also, no one drives so there is no worrying about drinking and driving. I occasionally go out to a bar or to a nice restaurant with my spouse on weekends, and I will drink anywhere from 1-3 beers or glasses of wine. If I go out with my spouse and his business associates, that's typically a 2-4 beer event on a weeknight (I usually go for 2 but they end up doing rounds and all of a sudden my glass is magically refilled). If it is a weekend or on a business trip, it could be more/different types of drinks. Happy hours with my co-workers or parties held for other work I do are usually multiple beer or liquor drink events, usually 3 or 4. Parties with friends would be multiple drinks over a span of several hours. These greater-drink events are not every week, perhaps once or twice a month, on average.
I track everything I consume so I pay attention to this. I do not think drinking is bad unless it is part of an addiction or is harming one's health (or others) or interfering with getting things done in life.