Has covid and lockdown changed your drinking habits?

[Antifa Hibs]

And will you stick to it when "normality" comes back?

For the first time in 6 months I did something this weekend that I was doing every week since aged 16 - a weekend sesh.

Started at 1pm in Leith on the Saturday and finished at midnight in the town. Showered n bacon rolls yesterday then 6-7 curer pints watching the fitba.

Great day out - superb. Feeling like ***** now though and must've spent over 100 quid easily. Before covid it was normal, didn't miss the money as it was budgeted for and feeling rough as hell again was something that was part of the weekly routine. Quite enjoyed having the extra money in the bank and got used to having a few nice IPA's or something in the house. Prior to lockdown I hated drinking in he house, now though a few on a weekend go down very well. Also enjoy just 2-3 pints reading the paper in the pub on my tod now - again before lockdown didn't drink on my own for fear of being judged.

Might treat myself once a month or 5 weeks to a "proper sesh" that was happening every week before hand. If others feel the same I guess its worrying times ahead for landlord and landladies all over the country?

[Pretty Boy]

I never really used to drink in the house. The first 3 or 4 weekend of lockdown I hit it pretty hard, that spilled into the odd midweek sesh as well. After a few weeks I got bored of it and with the exception of maybe a bottle or 2 on a Friday I rarely drank at all.

Since pubs have reopened I have been out once solely for a drink and that was the 1st Friday after beer gardens opened. I have been out for a couple of meal and had a drink with them. I like being able to go into a pub off the cuff, sit where I want, go up to the bar etc. The current set up, whilst necessary, just doesn't appeal to me at all.

In short I started off drinking more, now I drink much less.

[hibsbollah]

I’m drinking in the house a lot more often and a lot more volume and it’s probably something I should address. When i think I don’t want a drink tonight my missus says she does and I end up doing so anyway, and vice versa.

Ive been to the pub occasionally too but somehow I just don’t feel relaxed yet with the hand sanitizers and the distancing.

[Mon Dieu4]

I've been drunk once in the 6 months of lockdown and that was the weekend the pubs re-opened, in the house I've not touched a single drop, the house is rammed full of drink as well, most weeks I think when it gets to Friday I'm going to have a drink but when it comes to the crunch I just can't be bothered, think it comes down to two reasons, 1) I can't be bothered with a hangover and 2)I live alone and think that sat alone drinking in the house is a slippery slope to start on so I just don't do it

I was never the biggest drinker these days anyways, mainly every couple of weeks before and after a home game, once things ease up I look forward to that option again

Edit, the not a single drop in the house is bull****, just remember I got a couple of takeaway pints as a novelty back in June or so

[Hibernia&Alba]

Aye, I've definitely been drinking more at home; haven't been to a pub since they re-opened either. I think boredom is some of it; being confined to the house for so long isn't easy.

[Scouse Hibee]

Drank more than normal during lockdown when the weather was good and most of my time was spent in the garden. Now back to normal, have the odd drink in the house at the weekend. Used to always be a pub before and after a meal out, now it’s straight to the restaurant a drink before the food arrives, wine with meal and maybe a drink after it then straight home so definitely changed our night out routine.

[Pedantic_Hibee]

Back home I barely touch a drop indoors but I’ll meet my dad for a few pints in the pub now and again.

Here in Turkey I get wired into the Tuborg about 7pm until my last all inclusive pint at midnight. Not sure if there’s new restrictions in Turkey but I can confirm that women have been socially distancing themselves from me since I got here 😂🥴

[Hibrandenburg]

As is normal over here, I used to have a beer or two with my evening meal and a whisky with the Mrs before bed. Nothing really changed during lockdown except for the regular meeting with mates occasionally in the pub went out the window. About 6 weeks ago I just stopped drinking any alcohol because I suddenly just didn't fancy it. I now drink an alcohol free wheat beer with a grapefruit juice topping at meal time and the bedtime whisky is also a thing of the past. Last Friday night I was at a friend's house for his birthday and we ended up sinking a few beers and a Korn but it just didn't taste the same and reminded me of when I started smoking as a kid, I didn't enjoy it but was determined to force it down my neck so as not to stand out in company. I won't be doing that again in a hurry and am already seeing and feeling the benefits of cutting out the drink.

[Jones28]

I chucked it for a month or so after getting stuck in pretty hard at the start of lockdown. A bottle of wine after a few cans was not out of the ordinary for a Friday and/or Saturday, then maybe a couple of cans in the afternoon on a sunday - especially if the weather was good.

After that period of knocking it on the head altogether for 6 weeks or so I'm back to drinking again although considerably less now. A few beers at night on the weekend and never on a school night. My wife is pregnant again so if I drink it's all on me which gives me a bit more motivation to drink less. Stress is a bit of a factor, busy at work and currently trying to move house but there are hurdles at every turn with solicitors, mortgage, estate agents etc.

[Smartie]

I was on an all-dayer on Friday. In the pub for 8am, boys' golf day out, and I was really anxious about it as I'm so out of practice.

Last had a single alcoholic drink in (?) May. Had maybe half a dozen drinks at my brother's wedding in February. Before that it was last November that I last had a serious drink.

It's just not something that I do any more, although I quite enjoyed Friday so might get back into it.

Not sure how much of this is coronavirus related, but my business has taken a tanking this year so I don't really have money to spend pouring down my throat, and I don't have any time that I can spare to be spent hungover. Chuck in a 2 and a half year old daughter who is great fun but probably awful to handle hungover and I've just got to accept I'm in a different place now. Work can't survive without me so I've got to be very careful not to contract the virus, or to put myself in a situation where I might have to quarantine for a couple of weeks.

The things I'd have loved to do the most a couple of years ago I just wouldn't entertain now.

And drinking in the house is just something I've never done, although I've quite enjoyed just going out on the lash by myself in various corners of the globe over the years.

[weecounty hibby]

I never drink in the house, I just don't enjoy it. I will have the odd bottle of beer with a meal but not much more then that. I am a sociable drinker who needs to be in company and enjoy going to the pub with mates, bike rallies with mates, football with mates etc. We used to have a regular Sunday night meet and have a few pints but none of us are in the slightest bit interested in going back at the moment. We have met up in each others garages on a couple of occasions and kept social distancing while doing so. What I see and hear about pubs it's just not worth the risk.

[G15 Hibs]

My immediate pre-lockdown drinking was pretty much confined to an all day Saturday sesh related to the football, although I had been trying to reduce that to every couple of weeks rather than every week due partly to expense but mostly because my hangovers were getting worse and worse.

For the first couple of months of lockdown I was getting beer delivered directly from local breweries in an attempt to support small businesses. Started off having a couple of bottles on a Friday and maybe three or four on a Saturday. Over the next few weeks that increased each night until I was back to having crippling Sunday hangovers again. In mid-June I stopped buying any beer for the house and haven't touched any alcohol since the 1st of August when I had a couple of beers and whiskies while through visiting my folks. I haven't been in a pub since 7th of March.

I certainly wouldn't say that's it for me and bevvy, but I don't find I'm missing it in these circumstances. Its always a possibility I'll slip back into it should there ever be a 'normal' time again, but it doesn't look like that'll be something to worry about for a good while yet.

[JeMeSouviens]

My "old normal" drinking habits never involved much beer in the house. And my pub visiting has diminished over the years with kids, moving to the burbs and most of my office wfh on Fridays. Home drinking has usually been wine and the odd gin or whisky.

But with no pub at all, lockdown led to a bit of a beer renaissance for me. A group of pals that used to be my regular Friday after work crowd for me and my wife in the 90s but subsequently scattered all over the place have re-formed over google meet for virtual pub Fridays as well. I've really enjoyed that but unfortunately also put on 5kg.

Now on beer abstinence post-lockdown diet. :boo hoo: I think I'll try and gradually reintroduce it but going to have to impose some kind of rule on myself. I can easily enough not drink at all but I find limiting myself to one or 2 really hard and with it going in the weekly shop I am prone to fancying a bit of this and a bit of that and ending up overstocking. :rolleyes:

[Peevemor]

There isn't the same pub culture here as there is in Edinburgh so it's extremely rare for me to be in a pub with friends or workmates during the week. If for whatever reason ot does happen I hardly drink anything anyway as I invariably have to drive.

I always have ber in the fridge at home (in fact I have a fridge in the garage exclusively for beer & wine). I normally have a beer when I get home from work - maybe 2 if it's scorchio. If I'm in the house at weekends I'll generally have a beer before lunch & dinner and reward beers here and there if I cut the grass, clean the windows or such like. Lockdown made very little difference to any of this.

During the summer I'm normally out/away every weekend to play bagpipes at different events & festivals. This year everything was cancelled as was my related alcohol intake.

I put on a bit of beef during lockdown and am now looking to get rid of it without any daft dieting. I'm doing about 45 minutes per day on an exercise bike and often find myself thinking twice about taking the odd "extra" beer. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

[JimBHibees]

Back home I barely touch a drop indoors but I’ll meet my dad for a few pints in the pub now and again.

Here in Turkey I get wired into the Tuborg about 7pm until my last all inclusive pint at midnight. Not sure if there’s new restrictions in Turkey but I can confirm that women have been socially distancing themselves from me since I got here 😂🥴

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