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How much coffee and alcohol do you consume daily?

Huntn said:
Good points and good discussion. :) As a Nation we share commonalities, for example, I see minimum standards for education, voter rights, freedom of religion, and disallowed discrimination in a business opened to the public, all dictated by a Federal standards.

But when it comes to things like consumer products for sale, I don’t see it has a roll for the State to remove items from the market place because, they control monopolistic access to a commodity. Regulation has a place (example different speed limits) but overdoing it would be if the State exercises a monopoly and removes products from the market place for lack of shelf space or some other arbitrary reason. Analogy previously made: in a State with State owned car dealership monopolies, they decide to only offer Teslas and Humvees for sale. This would be wrong.

I’ll get back on topic now. :D
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What's funny is this is exactly why we have the politics we do - there are these ideological differences!

Back on to topic as well (sorry for the digression).
 
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I drink around 4 cups of coffee per day. Almost always have a mug with me at work.

As for alcohol, maybe 2 to 3 drinks per week at most generally. More on holiday/vacation. As for the drink, it varies depending on what I have at home. Sometimes beer (I prefer lighter brews like Stella Artois), red wine, or a spirit like bourbon or Baileys on the rocks. Might have a margarita or such at a restaurant.

(Sorry for putting the thread back on topic, lol)
 
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Coffee mostly just one a day, occasionally ill have a second around 5pm. Alcohol none usually during the week, mostly on the weekends ill have a few beers.
 
Gutwrench said:
And a whisky for your horse!
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This reminds me of the wonderful scene in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire when Madame Maxime reminds Hagrid that her Abraxan horses only drink (buckets of) single malt whisky.

Gutwrench said:
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Lol....you stole my answer...

Coffee: one, sometimes two.
Alcohol: whatever is necessary
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It is a very apt answer, one which says more than enough without giving away too much.
 
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Coffee: one or two per day-- aeropress with pismo attachment.
Occasionally-- every month or so, I'll get a sixpack, or a bottle of wine, and drink it over the course of a week.

Latest wine: Domaine Luquet St Veran 2016. It was Okay. Still haven't figured out why St Veran used to send me to the moon and back. Maybe there were extraordinary vintages back in the 1990s.
Latest Beer: Black Ox Porter-- very good.
 
Apple fanboy said:
I wonder how many types of beer there are?
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There used to be a terrific tradition in the UK, until the tied houses and large breweries almost killed it off - but, happily, in recent years, there has been a fantastic resurrection in the tradition of brewing craft & artisan beers (not all of which are of equal quality, but the best are superlative); Germany has always had small, local breweries, and a high standard of brewing and beer, likewise Belgium. Both countries had hundreds of beers. The Czechs as well, their brewing traditions were very impressive.
 
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Maybe 3-4 coffees a week, usually Doubleshot americano now with zero sweeteners. My wife wanted to get a fancy-pants coffee maker.

And I may have a shot or two of scotch 3 times a month.

I found out I was diabetic right at 5 years ago so my eating and drinking habits have changed significantly. So drinking went from trash whiskey with mixers to just sipping the trash whiskey over ice, sometimes a bit of lemon. To then going, "If I am going to drink this straight then I want to enjoy the taste when I do" so a friend of mine introduced me to single malt scotches and that new love affair began.

Now I just work so much that the want or desire to drink has faded to the point when I am out to a dinner with friends and every once in a while at home.

I pay 3-4 times the cost per bottle I used to but am consuming significantly less.

I don't really touch much beer anymore. An occasional IPA or Guiness is the go-to if it happens.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
I wonder how many types of beer there are?
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Types? Heck, I'd say an easy 20 main categories, and then based on very specific ingredients, brewing method, even geographical location, and all the "hybrid" and "in between" options, triple that just to start :)

Beers themselves, as in, a breweries product, wow, a bunch. Heck, in my little corner of the world, there's 5 breweries within 7 miles, and ~20 if you open up the distance to just 30 miles. Each with typically 6-8 in house brewed at any given time. I bet the liquor store I go to for the big beer selection, a walk in cooled beer cave plus ~10 wall coolers, all with beer, probably has 250-300 different distinct beers.
 
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D.T. said:
Types? Heck, I'd say an easy 20 main categories, and then based on very specific ingredients, brewing method, even geographical location, and all the "hybrid" and "in between" options, triple that just to start :)

Beers themselves, as in, a breweries product, wow, a bunch. Heck, in my little corner of the world, there's 5 breweries within 7 miles, and ~20 if you open up the distance to just 30 miles. Each with typically 6-8 in house brewed at any given time. I bet the liquor store I go to for the big beer selection, a walk in cooled beer cave plus ~10 wall coolers, all with beer, probably has 250-300 different distinct beers.
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Sounds like a good place.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Sounds like a good place.
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Yeah, it's fun, they have a great selection of all alcohol/wine/beer, and always a lot of interesting products (some special items made just for them), the manager and staff are big into beer, so they're always on the lookout for new products, or asking the "regulars" if there's anything they want. They're on an app called Untapped, so I get push notifications of new products:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/untappd-discover-beer/id449141888?mt=8
 
Don't like the taste of coffee.

Alcohol only in special occasions.

Most days its 6 bottles of water.
 
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