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    Default Where's my tolerance going?

    In general I drink pints.

    When we're on a PuG crawl I will have a pint in almost every pub we visit.

    If I'm on a pub crawl of my own I'll usually have a pint in any pub selling cask ale and halves in pubs that don't.

    I have a high tolerance of alcohol in general, or at least I did.

    Last night I had 2 x 500ml bottles of St Austell Proper Job at 5.5%.

    Followed by kiddie cans of Vocation Heart & Soul + Life & Death. Brewdog Clockwork Tangerine + Hazy Jane. One of each, so 4 cans in all.

    I also had 2 very small glasses of red wine circa 125ml each and a half of a Meat Feast pizza.

    I went to bed fairly merry after about 4.5 pints and two small wines.

    What's happening to my tolerance??????????

    When the pubs reopen I'll be back home after a couple of hours pissed as a rat!

    Anyone else noticing this evil phenomena?

    Mind you it could save me a fortune.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ROBCamra View Post
    In general I drink pints.

    When we're on a PuG crawl I will have a pint in almost every pub we visit.

    If I'm on a pub crawl of my own I'll usually have a pint in any pub selling cask ale and halves in pubs that don't.

    I have a high tolerance of alcohol in general, or at least I did.

    Last night I had 2 x 500ml bottles of St Austell Proper Job at 5.5%.

    Followed by kiddie cans of Vocation Heart & Soul + Life & Death. Brewdog Clockwork Tangerine + Hazy Jane. One of each, so 4 cans in all.

    I also had 2 very small glasses of red wine circa 125ml each and a half of a Meat Feast pizza.

    I went to bed fairly merry after about 4.5 pints and two small wines.

    What's happening to my tolerance??????????

    When the pubs reopen I'll be back home after a couple of hours pissed as a rat!

    Anyone else noticing this evil phenomena?

    Mind you it could save me a fortune.
    Keeping an even keel so far,In normal circumstances I don't often drink at home, now that I am, the volume is less than if the pubs were open but the abv average is way up.
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    I seem to be losing my tolerance of other people!
    Being in lockdown has made me realise that I don't really like many of my neighbours. I am sick of hearing other peoples music as soon as the sun comes out and I am sick of people having garden fires "because there isn't a green bin collection"


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    I don't usually drink during the week, unless I'm out,or if people come indoors (unlikely!). I've been buying tins from local micros,which tend to be stronger than the 3.8 abvs that I usually drink in the pub. In short, I'm usually fairly fuggled by the time Gardeners World comes on of a Friday night.
    "At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delboy20 View Post
    I seem to be losing my tolerance of other people!
    Being in lockdown has made me realise that I don't really like many of my neighbours. I am sick of hearing other peoples music as soon as the sun comes out and I am sick of people having garden fires "because there isn't a green bin collection"
    Certainly agree with this, especially that thing where it is seemingly ok to blast out (always sh1t) music with windows wide open just because the sun is shining. The same weather also seems to encourage certain of my neighbours to have full on domestic arguments for all to hear.
    Ok, maybe just for one......................

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    I've read about people complaining that they're drinking more during the lockdown. Well, that's their own fault. If they'd established a proper drinking baseline before the lockdown then they wouldn't now have to drink more to cope.

    Yes, I too have neighbours who have their windows open and blast out what they presumably regard as music whenever the weather's OK. But you can't recognise the tune as you just get the base thump. But to be honest they were just as bad before the lockdown as at present.

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    Tolerance - of alcohol - should be on the up according to The Guardian.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tris39 View Post
    Tolerance - of alcohol - should be on the up according to The Guardian.
    Looks like typical neo-pro drivel to me, no indication of sources etc, and of course the Gruniad has form as a purveyor of prohibitionist clap trap without even a hint of journalistic scrunity, pace BBC Radio 4.

    Obviously I'm my usual tolerant self when it comes to neo-pro's, lock down hasn't changed that. Alcohol wise my problem is kidde-cans, I can't drink them fast enough for the desired effect, I'm OK with with mini-kegs drinking pints, that works fine and my tolerance is normal.

    PS I noticed that Boak & Bailey put two kiddie-cans into a pint glass, topping up when required which might be the way forward.
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    I have always found that drinking at home affects me more.I tend to drink quicker and walking between pubs gives me a break from chugging beer after beer.Can definitely say my tolerance for alcohol has dropped as I get older..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobyduck View Post
    ... the volume is less than if the pubs were open but the abv average is way up.
    Last year my average abv for beers in pubs was 4.4% and for beers drunk at home 6.4%. This year I had decided to cut out drinking at home (good timing, eh), so was maybe drinking a few more strong beers than normal when out and about, bringing my pub average up to 4.6%. Beers that I've drunk at home since pubs closed on 20 March have averaged 5.2% abv.
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