Too much alchohol

Not just a river in Egypt!

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Originally posted by Rasher:
Speaks volumes doesn't it! I've a 1999 bottle of Penfolds Grange that I'm trying to keep for another 12 years, by which time it'll probably be too valuable to drink!!

you are absolutely right on the drinking window for Grange. Typically, it should be drunk 5-7 years from vintage, or from 15 years on. Between these periods, it goes into a sulkp phase as it metamorphoses from a fruity titan to a velvety behemoth.

I don't have any 1999, but I am lucky enough to have every vintage from 1988 - 1998 (excluding 1989). I rather like it...!

I guess you have a problem if you think you have aproblem.

Usually I have a drink in the week and more at the weekend. I do think my necks been cut if I don't have a glass of wine in the evening.

It does effect you though. If you have no drink you feel so much better in the morning, one glass of red is all it takes to not be on you rbest gam ein the morning.

gary, if I could have just one glass and then stop I'd still be drinking!

Quite often it is the pattern of your drinking that is more revealing, than the actual amount consumed. One recommendation to see how dependant you are, is to try and stop drinking for a period of time, say six weeks or two months, and see what the effects are on your temprement & behaviour. I've done time on an alcohol help line and have taken any number of calls from people who were casually wondering if they had a problem with alcohol, and thought they would just call in and check or get reassurance that everything was ok. Well guess what, it rarely is ok, by the time you start to wonder about it, the patterns of damaging behaviour have almost certainly already been established.

Stress relief dosen't come in bottels or glasses,I think it might be found in the gym or boxes from Salisbury. I swaped My hobbies and feel all the better for it,we all need to be carefull of the danger achohol can present.I fully understand C.K. I can go to a pub now and then for a pint of real ale but I don't do at home any more because I can't stop at one or two and that is how it all started,just one or two a night can become three or four and so on.Then you have to be brave like C.K.and admitt you have a problem,anyone who can stay happy with one or two I envy greatly.

Um, this would worry me see. I have tried to go a week without a drink and never managed it. The point I was making is that one glass a night could still be a problem if you can't go a night without that one glass.

I am exaggerating a bit, I don't usually drink sunday or monday for instance. And if I don't have a drink I sleep well etc. So I don't think I have a problem, but then sometimes I think maybe I do, especially if the intention is not to have a glass when you get home then buckle.

But then I think maybe I am analysing to much.

Hehe.

I'm quite lucky I suppose because in the evenings I probably crack open a tin, but then I start cooking (I do every evening) and it gets put aside. I'll usually hurry to finish it as I serve up the food. After I've eaten I just don't want another beer - I don't want it after I've eaten. That leaves me with a single tin most days. If my wife opens a bottle of red I'll have half the bottle, but that isn't very often, and I'd never open a bottle of wine for myself.
I'm off to the pub tonight which is probably something I do twice a month and I'll have 3 maybe 4 pints. If it's 4 I'll usually leave the last half as I just can't take the quantity.
I did once drink 8 pints on a memorable Sunday lunchtime, but that was 25 years ago.
I guess I'm safe.

Well... after a few at home, it certainly sounds jaw droppingly good. It does to start with!
But...

Regards, Steve

I hope I didn't worry anyone, just one glass a night over five and an odd night in the pub as long as it's social and with food makes all the differance,even your Doctor would probibly tell you this.