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I feel confident in saying that were it not for your and @TowardsPanna's encouragement, I would not have attended this. Going to unknown social events is not in my comfort zone. I also had eaten so many calories at lunch between pizza and donuts that the safer bet would have been staying home and eating fruit.
I'm still pretty drunk, admittedly, but it's still fresh in my memory, so I'll write about it.
The whiskey flight was "Bardstown" whiskey. Rye, blended, wheated, bourbon.
Overall, don't expect it to be difficult to make conversation. Everyone is predispositioned to want to talk to you, and they generally enjoy new faces. You don't need good conversational skills; in total, I was able to respond with mostly trivial empathetic responses, but otherwise, I talked about drinking, about certain local restaurants, about homeless people (one woman defended the homeless, but I was just happy to listen because I was quite drunk), about tennis, and about the drinking habits and experiences of family members who had gone on pub crawls.
On the other hand, if you don't want to get drunk, you should order a soda or something. Most people there had previously experienced trying to quit alcohol, and they would respect you for not drinking, in my opinion. My family is generally the same way; when I told these high-dollar stout drinkers that my brother didn't drink, they said "good!" Do not be ashamed of wanting to avoid alcohol.
Hopefully, there are more young people at the trivia night. I said "damn, man, I can't do this every week" to which the bartender replied "there will be a different brand next week". It strikes me as pretty easy to become an alcoholic. When I got home and started writing this, I cracked open a Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy, my overall favorite beer. My friends live all around the country, but none of them have ever seen or heard of a Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy. Is it truly a nationwide beer? Maybe not. Anyway, I will update you. Thanks for making me less boring in an unsustainable kind of way.
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