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Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 19, 2026

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Do you drink alcohol? If so, how much and how often, and what's your age?

I'm mid 40s and I used to be a social drinker, but gave it up 2.5 years ago because the hangovers, even after 2 drinks, became atrocious. Even if I ate something, spread out the drinks, hydrated, etc. Of my greater social group, though, I'm the only one to give it up. I keep hearing about people drinking less, but no one I know among my age group has slowed down or given it up.

Mid 30s, and I drink rarely because even one pint makes me woozy for a few hours and that's not fun unless I'm with friends. Drank 3 pints one evening last week, had very restless sleep and was hungover and unable to work until about 3pm. That's a bit extreme for me but it's just not something I can do any more.

In general I think it has less to do with age and more to do with drinking frequency, which correlates with age for various reasons. My father is like @MaximumCuddles and has more every single day than I would in a month. He doesn't sleep well but otherwise shows no ill effects.

Yeah there’s a bunch of parameters that go into it; genetics, lifestyle stuff. I’m on the right end of basically all of those spectrums to max out tolerance.

Frequently drinking very small amounts is a pretty simple way to keep your tolerance high.

I will say that now that I’m around 40 or I have more than two drinks I do feel more sluggish the next day but there’s a billion little tweaks you can make to minimize that; good nutrition, hydration, sleep hygiene, frequent exercise, etc.

I exist as a mid tier Dionysus figure in my friend group. One of my other past times in mountain biking, and I frequently bring three liters of water and one liter of half beer, half lemonade. The first time I went out biking with my friends they thought it was hilarious but near the end of our like 50km journey in the hills I was still rocking and rolling and they were dying of exhaustion.

There's a reason why radler is named after biking.

That’s what I tried to tell them!

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