Do you like beer, wine and booze for the taste, or because it gets you drunk?

[MrScorpio]

Yes, we all know that alcohol is a social lubricant. But, why do you love getting lubricated so much?

Curious minds want to know.

13 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Because it's expected of me
	0 (0%)
	To get me buzzed
	3 (23%)
	To get me moderately wasted
	0 (0%)
	To dull the pain of rolling my skull into the nearest gutter like a bowling ball
	0 (0%)
	For the taste
	4 (31%)
	Hmmm, tasty drunkenness
	5 (38%)
	Robb is my bartender.
	1 (8%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Tobin S.]

1. They say you have a problem with alcohol if you drink for effect.

But who doesn't drink for effect?

I like the taste of beer, but I'm not going to down a couple of them after work just because I'm thirsty. There is definitely an element of fun to it. Very few people drink just for the taste of it. Alcohol doesn't taste that good.

I say you've got a problem if you get a DUI, or if your wife is threatening to leave you if you don't stop drinking, or if you wake up in a sheep pasture with your pants down and you don't remember how you got there.

[GoCubsGo]

27. Alcohol doesn't taste good, but...

Neither does non-alcoholic beer and wine. Yuk!

[The Second Stone]

37. Really good wine with a really good meal is an extraordinary experience

that just a little bit makes up for all the weird shit that happens in life.

[chrisa]

31. I don't care at all about the effects of beer and enjoy the taste of it.

Some beers can taste very good. It's garbage like the popular beers that don't taste good (Miller, Bud, Coors, etc.). If the only option I have is mass produced crap in a can, I'd rather just have a soda.

[Throd]

2. I drink malt liquor to get drunk. I drink craft and imported beers for the taste.

[DFW]

3. Have to pass

I HATE beer, wine and booze precisely because I don't like the taste, so I never get drunk.

Never missed it either.

[Xyzse]

4. I don't really like alcoholic drinking.

In fact, I don't really drink.
I tend to be the DD(Designated Driver) not the (Designated Drunk).

I do partake now and then though for various reasons.

1 - In social occasions, it is nice to have, as to keep things going. If someone is having a drink along with me, I have one which I nurse throughout the night.
2 - When my friends decide to watch a movie that I am not willing to watch, but I felt compelled to. I will have enough so that I can sleep through the movie. Case in point, Twilight... Good god, I blame a lady friend and a 40 year old virgin on that one.

There you go.

[Wait Wut]

5. I don't like beer or wine.

I do like good gin. Do I drink it for the taste or to get a buzz? Both...mostly for the taste. Unfortunately, it tastes really good to me, so I have to watch how much I'm drinking.

[KamaAina]

6. Yes.

Especially a nice IPA or Chardonnay (both Northern California products).

[hedgehog]

7. I make the bulk of my liquor purchases at Christmas -

I have to have rum and kirsch for cookies and Irish Mist for the fruitcake.

[hifiguy]

8. Normal beer to slowly get a mellow buzz

Brandy or vodka for quick effect. Decent US brandy mixed 50/50 with Starbuck's mocha frappucino or straight, ice cold vodka of good quality - I prefer Smirnoff or Sobieski - lead to fairly rapid and significant consciousness alteration.

Good wine, craft/Euro beer/fine Scotch or other whisky for lengthy savoring. Life is too short to drink crappy wine or spirits.

[Aristus]

9. For the taste.

Getting drunk is a bonus...

[OriginalGeek]

10. I'm trying to learn wine

I've had a few that went really great with the food I was eating but those were either happy accidents or a more experienced person helped me with choices.

I LOVE good beer. I can drink shitty beer if it's free and the tap water is sketchy.

I might have a beer or 3 a week and very occasionally more if I'm at a party and the wife is driving.
The warm glow of 2 or 3 spectacular craft beers is perfect for me. (The beers I like often have a much higher ABV than the average 7-11 swill)

I love single malt scotch and enjoy it on occasion with a nice cigar. IF I was rich I'd enjoy them more.

If my wife is in a mood for some White Russians or Tequila sunrises I'll make 'em and drink 'em with her. I do a pretty decent Margarita on the rocks. I keep good Vodka and Tequila on hand for those occasions but a bottle may last us months if not more. A little while back we went with our son to one of his Moose Lodge events and they had some crazy thing with Fireball whisky and pineapple juice that she really liked so I'll be making that for her sometime soon. I'll probably just sip some tequila instead drinking that.


I hate frozen drinks (but that goes back even before I was old enough to drink - never liked Slurpies or slushies or Popsicles.)

I need to pick up some good rye for Manhattans and other things.

Hendricks gin and tonic with a twist of lime is sublime.

I ain't saying the buzz isn't a fun part of it but I wouldn't drink at all if I didn't like the taste.

[Raffi Ella]

11. I like the taste of beer and fruity mixed drinks-

almost as much as I like the buzz they give me.

[Kali]

12. yes

[pinboy3niner]

13. That calls for a...

[bigwillq]

14. I like beer for the taste.

But I also like to drink alcohol to get me buzzed.

[MrScorpio]

15. About time you booze hounds start showing up nt

[pinboy3niner]

17. Did you say booze hounds?

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. I drink vodka because it gets me drunk (doesn't taste much of anything).

I drink ales and stouts and wine and whiskey for the taste; a moderate buzz is a nice bonus. I don't drink often, and when "drunk" is my goal I usually go with vodka.

[OriginalGeek]

18. Beaking of Speer

just had the best chicken fried steak and some good ol' draft Yuenglings at Texas Roadhouse....The only thing better would have been if they had Shiner Bock. Shiner Bock is the beer to have with chicken fried steak.

[pinboy3niner]

19. Why doesn't EVERYBODY love Rexas Toadhouse?

I may just be getting frogetful...

[OriginalGeek]

20. Am not fibbian

bits the est!

[hifiguy]

25. Yuengling is a fine little brew.

Discovered it when I worked in Philly for a few months back in 00-01. At least we have Grain Belt Premium here in Minny.

[chrisa]

32. Yuengling is so overrated, imo. Was not impressed.

I'm not sure why there's so much hype about it. People seem to love it. I thought it was fairly mediocre.

[hifiguy]

33. It is no fine English or US IPA

Or Trappist ale to be sure but it is a solid little American beer like Grain Belt is up here in Minnesota. A nice, easy everyday beer with some character.

[OriginalGeek]

34. Yep - it's my go to cheap beer

IF I was rich I could drink Chimay all day but I'm not so I don't. Plus they have a brewery in Tampa so we get it on tap as the cheap beer in most restaurants around here.

Plus it's not Bud.

Cold can of Yuengling and a cheese steak sandwich. That's a fine lunch right there.

[Initech]

21. A little from column a, a little from column b.

[nomorenomore08]

22. The two are not mutually exclusive...

[Arugula Latte]

23. I love the taste of wine, like the taste of fruity mixed drinks, and hate the taste of beer.

I like to get a nice warm tipsy buzz going, but nothing too extreme.

[Tom_Foolery]

24. I haven't had any booze since 1982...

Don't miss it at all.

[ZombieHorde]

26. Both.

I usually only have one drink when I drink, which won't give me a buzz. A burger and a beer can be a nice meal. Though sometimes I drink to get drunk.

[intaglio]

28. I loathe beeing drunk or even having an alcohol "buzz"

Wine generally tastes good, some beers and some real (alcoholic) ciders but I'll rarely have more than a glass

[Skittles]

29. I don't like beer or wine but like the taste of rum

I like to add a bit more to a Mudslide.....mmmm.....alcoholism is rampant in my family so I have always treated liquor as a treat and would never consider it something to drink daily.............and I only like feeling toasty - I detest the out of control feeling of being wasted.

[Liberal_from_va34]

30. It really depends on the type of alcoholic beverage.

I usually drink wine for the taste, which can vary wildly from sweet to dry. On the other hand, I only drink beer to get hammered, since it usually comes in one flavor - piss. Ditto for vodka.

[sakabatou]

35. Taste

[Enthusiast]

36. The taste and buzz are inseparable.

[Rhiannon12866]

38. I like both, but I've been sober for 5 years, three months and two weeks.

You wouldn't want to know me, otherwise.

[Iggo]

41. 17, 9, and 3.

And you ain't kiddin'.

[Rhiannon12866]

44. Congratulations!

Life is decidedly better and I've made some wonderful friends.

[Iggo]

45. Thanks! Better and better every day.

[Rhiannon12866]

46. Realizing I only needed to make it through today was an epiphany for me

That was in 2009 and is still at the top of my gratitude list. And I agree, it really does get better.

[3catwoman3]

39. I confess to a fairly pedestrian palate.

I love the taste of Mike's Hard Lemonade, and would drink a non-alcoholic version if they made one.

I get sleepy by the second of anything, so seldom get buzzed - the proverbial cheap date.

[Iggo]

40. 12 oz Buds. Rack 'em up. Fire for effect.

[davidpdx]

42. I don't generally like alcohol

Here in Korea most of the beer is crap. They do sell tons of microbrews from around the world, but they are very expensive.

[mackerel]

43. I enjoy the taste of beer and wine sooooo much that I actually don't drink very often.

It sucks that you get drunk from beer and wine.

[T_i_B]

47. I only ever drink beer these days

And I only drink it because I like the taste, which in itself pushes me towards being something of a beer snob.